Vietnam War veterans are invited to attend the Vietnam Era Veteran Welcome Home and Pinning Ceremony, a special event in Rifle dedicated to honoring those who served during the Vietnam War era. The ...

The Vietnam War was a conflict of extremes. On the one hand it involved some of the most advanced weapons on Earth at that time including the first use of supersonic warplanes dropping laser guided ...

The U.S. Marine Corps has been instrumental in American combat operations for well over 200 years. Aside from the will to fight, the rifle has long stood as the Marines’ most important weapon on the ...

Deployed in late 1966, the “Guns a Go-Go” unit quickly proved its worth in Vietnam’s unforgiving terrain. In the dense jungles of Vietnam, at a time when American and North Vietnamese forces were ...

The jungles of Vietnam served as proving grounds for guns like the M16 and variations of the minigun American arms used throughout the conflict gained iconic status among soldiers and the general ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...

In the pre-dawn hours of March 3, 1969, soldiers at Ben Het Special Forces Camp in the Central Highlands near the Laotian border heard something unusual in the jungle. They had patrolled the area for ...

The pictures made the story of the massacre inescapable. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING FOR SOME VIEWERS. Vietnam-- a war and a country with which America has never come to terms.