Sgt. Gerald Laird fires an M60 machine gun in Vietnam. The M60 was ubiquitous in the Vietnam War. U.S. Army photo It was a fixture in Vietnam. Second only tothe Huey helicopteras the “most recognizable” weapon of its era according to a poll by the trade journalArmy Times, the M6...
Despite her being regarded as a heavy weapon for lugging around, she was in fact one of the lighter general purpose machine guns in use at the time. Like the M16, the M60 may have deserved its bad reputation in the Vietnam War but this is not to say that she did not have her ...