1967 Marine Corps Training Film: Viet Cong Mines and Booby Traps

[littlejohn]

[9th]

I can relate! Thanks for posting.

[M1AScoutSquad]

I had an idea of how the VC did things, this was quite an eye opener. Thank you for sharing this.
To all those that served, you have our gratitude.

[nf1e]

Thanks for the memories.

[polish29]

The first week of January 1966 Cpl. Roberts of Survey Section. Hq. 3/12 stepped in a pungy trap. He was gone about three weeks getting over the infections to his leg. Yes, he was awarded a Purple Heart for the wound. For some reason the official reports that day did not mention the wound.

[Dwight55]

Thanks littlejohn . . .

I had to laugh watching it . . . never saw one black rifle in the whole thing . . .

Did see one AK . . . rest were the good ol M14.

May God bless,
Dwight

[VanHahner]

There were other traps and (IED's) that were used, that was not mentioned, besides the Malayan whips and doors and punji traps.

Like empty L.A.W. tubes filled with activated grenades that swung unseen over head arcing its payload down a well traveled path, or a unexploded 5,000 bomb, that they hauled near a well beaten trail, that was set up to electrically detonate from a far.