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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
The Vietnam-era LRRP consisted of six men, when these people went into the jungle on recon, they got to carry:
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120 40mm HE shells
10 40mm Buckshot shells
6 40mm Parachute Flare shells
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That's an impressive number of 40mm grenades! Effective munitions though so I can understand why so many.
I have a question - If the XM-21 was fielded from the second half of 1969 onwards but LRRP teams were operating for at least several years before that, what were LRRP teams using as a sniper rifle in early 1969 and before?