Word: ammo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family" of Chinese Communist 7.62-mm. carbines, assault rifles and light machine guns, as well as heavier recoilless rifles, mortars, antitank mines, grenade launchers and bazookas. Whole Viet Cong companies have been outfitted with these new arms. The ominous conclusion: Viet Cong reliance on weapons that require ammo and parts from outside "indicates the growing confidence of Hanoi in the effectiveness of their supply lines to the South...
...when U.S. and South Vietnamese planes sighted and sank a camouflaged, 120-ft. Viet Cong supply ship at Vungro Bay. Last week, after a tough fire fight, government forces finally reached the sunken ship. Aboard it and in caches nearby were at least 100 tons of arms, ammo and supplies, including nearly a million rounds of small-arms ammunition, 2,000 Mauser rifles, 1,000 submachine guns and 500 Ibs. of medical supplies from North Viet Nam, Communist China, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Russia and-oddly enough-Japan. The ship itself was built in China, and aboard it were found...
...killed a 15-year-old Filipino boy scavenging for scrap metal on Clark Air Force Base. The next month, two Marine Corps sentries at the U.S. naval base in Subic Bay killed one of a pair of Filipino fishermen who the marines believed were pilfering from a dockside ammo dump...
...same time, pilferage is a major problem. In the first nine months of 1964, more than $171 million in goods was lifted from tightly guarded Clark Field, including hundreds of bombs, some as large as 750 Ibs. Some of the weapons and ammo filter to remnants of the Communist Huk guerrilla forces holed up on Luzon. But mostly the Filipino operators sell the explosives to dynamite-fishermen (who package it in Coke bottles to kill fish in Manila Bay) and trade the empty cases on Manila's booming scrap-metal market. Pilferers have stolen airfield landing lights, miles...
...their lighter weight by having a muzzle velocity of 3,250 ft. per sec.-significantly more speed than the 2,800 ft. per sec. of the .30-cal. M-14. The cartridges are lighter, and so is the rifle itself. An M-16 with 120 rounds of ammo weighs only 9 Ibs., no more than an empty M-14. Its bullets are not as accurate at ranges greater than 300 yds. because they are deliberately given less stabilizing spin. They tend to tumble, and since they usually hit their targets sideways, they do extra damage. The M-14 kicks like...