This does not necessarily indicate a “clean wound.” Organs, major blood vessels, and bones could still have been hit. Through and through Bullet or fragment wound that exited the body (T&T). Occasionally called a “weapons carrier.” Various types of communications-electronic shelters could be mounted. Three-quarter-ton The 3/4-ton 4×4 M37B1 cargo truck. Automatic pistols were difficult to operate and reload one-handed while revolvers could be.ģd Herd Any 3d Battalion, e.g., 3d Battalion, 508th Infantry referred to themselves as such. Aviators used revolvers as crashes often caused hand/arm injuries. USAF Security Police used the S&W Model 15. Investigators and others requiring easily concealed weapons carried snub-nose Police Positives. Aviators used the Model 10 along with riverine craft crewmen. 38 Special revolvers were used to include the S&W Model 10 and Colt Police Positive. TH3 is a more effective compound than thermite and burns at 4,330☏. Three were carried in tanks to destroy the main gun, radio, and engine. Mainly used to destroy equipment and prevent its capture/use. Thermite grenade AN-M14 incendiary hand grenade is actually thermate (TH3) filled, not thermite. Aka “bazooka.” Replaced by the M72 LAW and 90mm M67 recoilless rifle and declared obsolete in 1970. Three-point-five The 3.5-in (89mm) M20A1B1 rocket launcher. There was little more a grunt could gratefully expect than dry socks (which can be inferred as a dry place to sleep) and three hot meals a day, even if just heated C-rats. Extract, page 178-Example of a typical page. Its approach to the study of Vietnam slang is somewhat different than found in other dictionaries.ģ. Casemate Publishers recently released Grunt Slang in Vietnam: Words of the Warin hardback and Kindle formats, 240 pages and 1,500 entries. I started collected slang while in Vietnam and ever since. There are a few Vietnam slang dictionaries about, handback, paperback, and on-line, but to me there more to slang dictionaries that a simple word definition. Sometimes those memories are a bit rusty nonetheless those old and sometimes funny or odd words spill out. That was a long time ago, 50 years or more for most of us.
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