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Field medic kit (includes plasma, IV drip, medications, smelling salts, suturing kit) | |||
M60 7.62mm caliber machine gun and bipod with ammunition boxes (two 100-round belts per box) | M60 7.62mm caliber machine gun and bipod with ammunition boxes (two 100-round belts per box) | ||
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PRC-25 field radio and spare batteries | PRC-25 field radio and spare batteries | ||
== Special Forces Loadout == | == Special Forces Loadout == | ||
Revision as of 11:15, 8 September 2024
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
Squad Loadout
Each squad or fire team also carries one of:
Field medic kit (includes plasma, IV drip, medications, smelling salts, suturing kit)
M60 7.62mm caliber machine gun and bipod with ammunition boxes (two 100-round belts per box)
M79 rifle grenade launcher and 20-24 grenades in a grenade vest
PRC-25 field radio and spare batteries
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