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The thing about this article was how they made do, and how bad the early M-16's were.
It sure as hell wasn't John Wayne's jingoistic fairy tale.
8 Things Vietnam War Movies Leave Out (By an Enemy Soldier)
http://www.cracked.com/article_22206_8-facts-about-vietnam-war-i-learned-as-viet-cong.html
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Javaman
(62,500 posts)by trying unjam is m-16. He was told to grab the barrel and hit the butt on a rock.
He was in a fire fight and the barrel was red hot.
you get the picture.
he hated those rifles.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Motivated to stay alive. I was drafted in 1966. I had no idea what we were fighting for just like this guy. A kid who was a year younger than me who I played baseball with enlisted in the marines and was killed in Vietnam before I was drafted. That's as much as I knew.
It comes down to survival.