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History of the M203 Grenade Launcher

The third pic (might be in Grenada) has a guy nodding off with his finger on the trigger of his M16 pointing at his teammate who's got a M72 strapped to his back.

Advanced 40mm grenade launchers & ammo are becoming programable to adjust how & wear the munition explodes onto/into a target.
 
MY UNIT A TROOP 2/17th CAV, !st BDE, 1O1st "AIRBORNE DIV" II CORPS VN ABOUT 1967 OR SO WE WERE GIVEN THE XM-148 FOR FIELD TESTING AND I WAS ISSUED IT FOR A SHORT TIME UNTIL IT GOT PASSED ONTO OTHERS. I WASN'T INCOUNTRY WHEN IT WAS REISSUED AS THE M-203. IT WAS INTERESTING TO SAY THE LEAST.
 

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Before being medically released from the US Army Flight School at Fort Rucker, AL, I was asked if I would prefer a .45 or a .38 special as a sidearm of choice. I told them I wanted a M203, ‘cause no enemy was going to get within 400 yards of my butt if my helo went down.
 
I was a door-gunner on the UH1H on most of our missions I carried an M-79, I was given by a special op personnel. He told me when I fired it I should hold the 2 parts hard, it was a shortened M-79 which means that he cut it in half I could fit in in my nomax flight pants. I was with the 101st Airborne Div. (CBT) we did receive the m-16 - M203 over and under, this was in July of 1971. The M-79 and the 203was used to shoot in the treeline, it helped to bring charley out of the woods. I have always wished that I could have brought them back to the world, just for the collecting part.
 
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