Vietnam LRRP knife

[The True North]

I may be wrong, but that radio and handset don't look right either.

This is what's convinced me the image is AI. As mentioned earlier in the thread by someone else, what appears to be a digital, programmable radio has no place in this picture.



Or it's not a Vietnam-era pic at all. Panama maybe? The flash hider would be correct then.

 

[RPZIP]

This is what's convinced me the image is AI. As mentioned earlier in the thread by someone else, what appears to be a digital, programmable radio has no place in this picture.



Or it's not a Vietnam-era pic at all. Panama maybe? The flash hider would be correct then.

AI, or someone cobbled together the assorted gear and took a deliberately low res photo to make it appear to be a period photo.

 

[Mk-211]

USN MK 3 MOD O

Doesn't have a fuller, the knife in the pic doesn’t have saw teeth, like the Mk-3.

The Ka-Bar is period correct and matches the knife more closely.

 

[SharpBits]

Why are we still trying to match this AI knife to a real knife? AI makes amalgams of all the images it has learned from. To my eye, it appears to be a mashup of those two knives and the period correct bayonet.

 

[RPZIP]

Doesn't have a fuller, the knife in the pic doesn’t have saw teeth, like the Mk-3.

The Ka-Bar is period correct and matches the knife more closely.

I don't think it has a fuller - rather a low res taper of the quite fine MK 3 sawteeth. The square-ish pommel also shows the pin that holds it on the tang. The handle profile where it flares out to meet the guard is also very MK 3. The blade tip is also very (improved version) MK 3-ish.

But... I may be wrong

 

[Danke42]

Why are we still trying to match this AI knife to a real knife? AI makes amalgams of all the images it has learned from. To my eye, it appears to be a mashup of those two knives and the period correct bayonet.

Because we only read the first post and then reply immediately. It's what people like about us.

 

[RPZIP]

Why are we still trying to match this AI knife to a real knife? AI makes amalgams of all the images it has learned from. To my eye, it appears to be a mashup of those two knives and the period correct bayonet.

I think the most obvious bell ringer is that radio and handset combo. Not right at all.

 

[SharpBits]

I think the most obvious bell ringer is that radio and handset combo. Not right at all.

For me it was the fake mini-claymore mine with garbled letters and words.

 

[RPZIP]

For me it was the fake mini-claymore mine with garbled letters and words.

Well, it is - obviously - a very very low res photo/picture. And like a certain assassination, we'll probably never know the truth

 

[DocJD]

We were issued the 3-prong flash suppressor on our XM16E1's in 1st SFGA on Okinawa in very late 1964 or very early 1965, and had them on TDY to Vietnam in 1965. When I got back into Vietnam in Aug 1967, they had the M16A1 with the round suppressor. Of course there were still XM16E1's in country as the 173rd ABN, the 1st Brigade of the 101st, and the 1st CAV entered country in 1965 armed with XM16E1's. John

Did you take notes , or can you still actually remember all this stuff in detail ?

Amazing ,to me , if you can . Wonderful really . Wish I could .

 

[RPZIP]

Did you take notes , or can you still actually remember all this stuff in detail ?

Amazing ,to me , if you can . Wonderful really . Wish I could .

I was AF 70s/80s. I still remember exactly what we wore, were issued, carried etc. And I have photos I can refer to on some points

 

[John A. Larsen]

Did you take notes , or can you still actually remember all this stuff in detail ?

Amazing ,to me , if you can . Wonderful really . Wish I could .

Remembering what we were issued and carried back then is not a problem, now what I ate for lunch yesterday is another story. John