Actor Kevyn Major Howard, who played the Marine combat photographer Rafterman in the Vietnam War movie “Full Metal Jacket,” died ... support dedicated to our military, law enforcement, and ...

head to the field in search of truth during the Battle of Hue. The battle, from late January to early March 1968, was a major clash during the Tet Offensive that pitted North Vietnam’s army and ...

Leather flight jackets were still worn up through the Vietnam War. Many military pilots kept their ... On one pocket there is a vintage Moffett Field (KNUQ) patch to commemorate attending Zeppelin ...

The Vietnam Army Grunt Museum, open since right before ... “This is what we wore in the field,” the elder Lynd said. “The gear was donated by Larry Harper, who came to my unit when I was ...

The field jacket has a long-standing pedigree in military history. With many iterations over the years, none remains more iconic than the M-65, a style first introduced by Alpha Industries to outfit ...

The U.S. Army is on the verge of retiring the Vietnam-era 5.56-millimeter caliber ... The U.S. Army is finally poised to field a new bullet designed to penetrate body armor at greater ranges.

But the star of the kit was a new field jacket ... led to the catastrophe unfolding in Vietnam. At the same time, outdoor recreationists were flocking to military-surplus stores to buy field ...

The US military began issuing the M-1965 Field Jacket, more commonly known simply ... It became the iconic snivel kit of the Vietnam War, often seen with the venerable poncho, and soon spread ...

AP The black Mercedes weaves through the swarms of motorbikes in Danang City, Vietnam ... over and half-opened the door. A military decoration hung from his jacket pocket told me I was face ...

To make a decades-long story short, the M-65 field coat (appropriately named after the year it made military issue ... still during the Vietnam War, the M-65 settled stateside and paid more ...

My unit was First Field Force Vietnam, 6th Battalion, 84th Field Artillery, in An Khe in the Central Highlands. Midway through my tour, I was transferred to Nha Trang. I entered the military in ...