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M79 ammo in Funny New Guys Vietnam.  Also for XM148 after 1965 and M203 after 1969.

See High Tech p.143 and p.145 and SEALs in Vietnam p.33 for stats.

M381 HE (1967) - 3 yard min distance.  32g Comp-B.  0.503 lb.

M406 HE (1967) - 15 yard min distance.  32g Comp-B.  0.503 lb.

M433 HEDP (1971) - 15 yard min distance.  45g Comp-A5.  0.507 lb.

M576 MP (Multi-Projectile) (1967) - No min distance.  20 #4 Buckshot pellets.  0.254 lb.

M583A1 White Parachute Star Flare (1972) - 600ft altitude, 40 sec, 90,000 candela.  0.49 lb.

M585 White Star Flare (1967) - 330 yard min distance, 7 sec, 55,000 candela.  0.41 lb.

M651 Riot Control CS tear gas (1967) - 33 yard min distance, 6.5 yard sphere, 20 sec burn time.  0.45 lb.

M661 Green Parachute Star Flare (1972) - 600ft altitude, 40 sec, 8,000 candela.  0.49 lb.

M662 Red Parachute Star Flare (1972) - 600ft altitude, 40 sec, 20,000 candela.  0.49 lb.

XM674 Riot Control CS tear gas (1968) - 33 yard min distance, 6 yard sphere, 36 sec burn time.  0.463 lb.

M676 Yellow Smoke (1967) - 150 yd. min distance.  90 sec burn time.  0.48 lb.

M680 White Smoke (1967) - 150 yd. min distance.  90 sec burn time.  0.48 lb.

M682 Red Smoke (1967) - 150 yd. min distance.  90 sec burn time.  0.48 lb.

There's a husha bomb "silent" HE round running around with the SEALs and some flechette rounds circulating too.
 

I Beg Your Pardon

Hunter Biden has gotten a sweet deal of a pardon!

Do not despair!

Biden the Younger may no longer plead the 5th if someone makes him testify now.

Everything has a silver lining!

Not that I expect anyone to supoena him...

That's Not The Official Loadout

With the idea of press-ganging Marv into making a Funny New Guys character, I decided to look up the loadouts for the various weapons carried in Vietnam.

I found this guy.

What I'd found in my research into the web gear made me think that 9 20-round magazines were carried for the M16.

He's saying they lugged around 20.

He's also carrying 200 rounds of spare ammo on 10-round clips.

Plus 200 rounds for the M60.

I'd encountered the carrying ammo for the M60 before.

I'd made characters who lugged around ammo in their packs to reload magazines later, an idea that Willard dissuaded me of, but it persists.

But, he was there, I was not.

Now I'm trying to figure out HOW he carried 20 magazines.  1 goes in the gun.  A magazine pouch will hold 4 each.  An ammo bandolier has 7 pockets and each will carry one magazine.  Three pouches and a bandolier will do it.

That bandolier came from an ammo can and was packed with 14 10-round clips.

I wonder if he was really carrying 140 spare rounds instead of 200 in clips.

Also of interest is the grenadier carrying 25 40mm grenades.  The standard bandolier carries a whopping 6. A vest would tote 24.  There are many bags available to carry them around loose though.

Most photos of grenadiers in 'Nam I've found are wearing the same LBE as the other grunts, and that makes me think that some were carried in the standard ammo pouch; 2 easily, maybe 3 but you'd need a DX roll or a Fast-Draw -4 to get just one out without pulling all three out.

This dude can lug around 30 grenades with his vest and bandolier.