Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

There is, however, a glaring error with the Philippine OOB. None of the costs were done (gross oversight on my part). I'll get a revised OOB in there as soon as I can.

Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

Can you point me to a Vietnam era TO&E for the USMC?
Been searching the net for a while and no luck.

Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

I actually haven't had much luck with the USMC in the way of TO&E information for infantry, armor, arty, and many support units. I was hoping I might be able to work with you on it for my pack actually hehe.

I've had the most luck adding things in my USMC OOB with regards to aircraft and helicopters. You'll notice in the change file for the USMC OOB, there are dramatically fewer changes then there are for the Army OOB.

Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

Well I can give you bits and pieces but nothing comprehensive.
Part of the problem is there were several changes, experiments, and upgrades done during the 1962-1969 period. So although there was a paper TO&E (which is what I'm looking for) the TO&E actually used varied not only from year to year but in some cases from unit to unit. Given your project I suspect you're more interested in what was used as opposed to what was on paper.

Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

Yeah, I am, but a paper base is a good place to start from. I might find some time to do some searching and work on the project this week, but school starts Wednesday and I'm gone every weekend from now until the weekend of the Sept 15th, so who knows. Send me and Email and we can talk more about this.

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Private message with e-mail address sent.

Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

You were asking about the USMC using BAR's in Vietnam.
Do a search for M1918A2 in this document.

http://www.usmc.mil/directiv.nsf/0/0...%208300.1C.pdf

The download is a picture of one in use in Vietnam.

Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

It was used by the ARVN in Vietnam and by the US advisers. The link I got was a USMC form for weapons reporting. You would be surprised what exists in the armoury of the Regular Forces ,Reserve and National Guard troops around the country. Some units never get rid of weapons unless they have to.

link below shows an advisor shooting a BAR on a range with the a ARVN trooper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Automatic_Rifle

Re: Vietnam Specific OOBs
 

Updates?

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Heh, well unfortunately the project has sort of been on hold. My HD crashed and I spent a fair amount of time bringing all sorts of things back up to date. Then school started, then I got evicted from where I was living, but now, now I have finished moving, so hopefully there might be some updates soon. I've just been really busy as of late hehe.