04-08-2005, 08:37 PM
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04-08-2005, 10:29 PM
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| Member  | the 50's were mounted on a turret-topped vehicle, and was radar controlled. The radar pod is just below/behind the largest ammo can. RCA set the thing up on the KheSanh perimeter. It was neat watching the techs alter the program to track 55 gal drums being rolled down the hill, several hundred yards away.
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04-08-2005, 10:41 PM
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| Senior Member  | Well I must say thank you for your service. My father also served in Vietnam. He served in the Navy on the PBR boats patroling the rivers of the Mekong Delta. If i remember right i think he was in country in 70 and 71. I don't remember for sure. Did you see any combat? |
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04-09-2005, 05:48 AM
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| Member | You're welcome. My regards to your father. I was up north around Dong Ha, Phu Bai, Cam Lo, and most of the time around Khe Sanh.
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04-09-2005, 06:38 AM
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| Moderator   |  My uncle Larry, Mom's younger brother, was an Airforce admin type in Vietnam, but was well behind the lines. He parlayed his admin experience into his own successful company later after he retired. I was too young for that war, too old for Desert Storm. I often wonder how I would have done in such a testing. That quad 50 looks like the one used in WWII on the M16 Halftrack. It was used in Korea as "the meatgrinder" - to hepl defend against the NK human wave attacks. The Israelis took the same Emerson turret and used 20mm cannons in place of the fifties! That would sure lay waste to a P-dog town! 
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