Armed with a muscular M60 7.62mm machine gun and perched high above the kill zone, the door gunner doles out and destruction as though it were a casual neighborhood drive-by.

Don Wilmot created his own word to sum up his life in Vietnam.KobK, which he pronounced, “Kobeck.”“It stands for ‘kill or be killed,'” said the 70-year-old Sterling Twp. resident.

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a stay-at-home mother of two.

During Vietnam, the US benefited from several venerable weapons like the M60 machine gun, the accurate M21 sniper rifle, and workhorse CAR-15, the last of which has also seen extensive use in ...

April 30 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. While the war officially ended in 1975 with the fall of Saigon, the United States withdrew its military personnel in March 1973, ending ...

More than 2.7 million Americans served during the Vietnam War. Around 15,000 of them came from North ... Fladeland was assigned the role of an M60 machine gunner — always on the front line in ...

The end of that war saw the introduction of the M1918A2 Browning Automatic ... An M60 gunner in a defensive position had the option of using an M91 ... The M60 got its acid test in Vietnam, ...

The Vietnam War was "the helicopter war," said now-retired Maj. Gen. Carl H. McNair. "Over 12,000 helicopters ... "It had a gunner in the back with an M60 machine gun," Earles said.

As a door gunner, he protected ground troops by providing "defensive and suppressive fire" with M60 machine guns mounted onto the cargo doors of helicopters, according to one of Jordan's filings ...

The U.S. would deploy the first M48s to Vietnam in March 1965 at Da Nang with over 600 eventually finding their way to the war. The M48 Patton and all of its variants were not alone in Vietnam.

The M60 would see its first combat use in the Vietnam War in 1965 with the U.S. Marines. While it served well for many soldiers, providing heavy, accurate firepower, it also revealed many more ...