How did it achieve this status? The war in Vietnam was arguably the watershed moment for the AK-47. The communist side were supplied by the Soviets and China with millions of Kalashnikovs The ...

"That sounded just like an AK-47," he told me. On what troops call ... Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the Army again needs to find itself after our nation's longest and most fraught ...

Curated collections include “In Country: Stories from the Vietnam War,” which presents stories from 16 veterans. “Each of the 2.7 million Americans who served ‘in country’ during the ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since North Vietnamese troops took the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam ... time at war. “Seven guys materialize with AK-47s and ...

He did not join the war ... an AK-47 for self-defence and hunting. By 1979, Vietnamese troops were expanding their operations searching for Fulro, so the group fled into Cambodia, to Vietnam's ...