Although, the Marine Corps was the last American military service to have helicopters it became the first to institute a long-range program of working out helicopter combat techniques.11 (Phib-31 was copied by the U.S. Army, almost word for word, in its first helicopter manual.) The month...
Interment services were held on June 2, at 11:00 at the Quantico National Cemetery. Several TBS classmates attended and this is a report: Hays Interment. Eileen Stokes Eileen, Jim Stokes' wife of 52 years, passed away on April 18. Bob Lange sent flowers to her services with this note: ...
though the older M118 ammo tended to hold the rifle back to about 1 MOA, but the new M118LR (designed by the USMC) really unleashed the potential of these rifles with accuracy improving to about .5 MOA. The Max Effective range of the M40A1 is listed at 800 meters by a lot of sour...