Delta Green: The Borellus Connection: Vietnam Era Loadouts

The following are standard US loadouts for operations during the Vietnam War. They will give some idea of equipment and capabilities available.

Standard Loadout

The following gear is standard issue or otherwise in common use for Marines in the field in Vietnam in 1968. Marine GMCs or Agents can be assumed to be carrying this equipment without a requisition test. Most of it hangs off their Load-Bearing Equipment (LBE) “web gear,” in pouches or harness clips, some of it rests in their haversack. Army gear is similar. For civilian Agents, havethis gear stashed in a rucksack or backpack.

Ammunition pouches (three 20-round 5.56mm magazines)

Bayonet and scabbard

Blanket

C-rations (canned) Canteen (or two) and cup

Cartridge belt

Claymore mine

Cigarette lighter, pack of smokes

Compass

Dog tags

Electrician’s tape

Entrenching tool (short shovel)

First aid kit including field dressing and morphine syrette

Flare launcher (M127 single-shot, white parachute flare)

Fragmentation grenades (two, M26 or M67)

Halzone water purification tablets

Helmet

Insect repellent

Ka-bar fighting knife (d–1)

M16A1 5.56mm assault rifle and bipod

M1911A1 Colt .45 automatic pistol (officers and NCOs only)

Machete (d+0)

Mess kit and pan

Mosquito net

Pocket knife

Poncho

Shaving gear and toothbrush

Smoke grenade (M18)

Sleeping bag and air mattress

Socks, extra (also useful for muffling gear, storing small items, etc)

Tent shelter half, tent pins

Towel

White phosphorus grenade (M34)

Wristwatch

Special Forces Loadout

The following gear is special issue gear utilized in addition to or instead of the standard loadouts. Marine Recon, MACV-SOG, Navy SEALs, and other special forces units will carry it. Agents can obtain this equipment with a requisition test.

Amphetamines

Asbestos gloves C4 plastic explosive brick (M112)

Camera (35mm snapshot) and film

Camouflage makeup sticks, black and green

Clothesline (for tying knots to measure paces travelled)

Colored smoke grenades

Fishing line and fish hooks

Flashlight with colored lens filters

Flare projector with seven pencil flares (M186, red, green, white)

Flint and steel

Gas mask and case

Gloves, leather

Ithaca Model 37 12-gauge pump-action combat shotgun

LRP-rations (lighter, freeze-dried)

Magnesium fire-starter

Magnifying glass

Map, laminated in acetate

Notepad and pen

Penlight

PVS-2 starlight night-vision scope

Rope and carabiners or snap links

Signal mirror

Sleeping shirt (polyester)

Snare wire

Spray paint, fluorescent

Strobe flasher

Survival tool (Woodman’s Pal axe-machete)

Tabasco sauce

Tracer ammunition, 20-round 5.56mm magazine

Whistle

Zip cuffs, two sets