We will be attending Military Odyssey 2021 at the end of August (27th-30th), we plan to have a Collins S Line setup, along with a number of other radios used by MACVSOG and US Special Forces during the Vietnam war; Collins KWM-2a, VFO and Phone Patch GRC-109 and Generator PRC-74 …
The AN/PRT-4 and AN/PRR-9 worked together as an attempt at a simple, lightweight Squad radio, albeit one-way. First fielded in Vietnam by the U.S. Army in March 1967, the idea was to extend an infantry platoon and/or squad leaders’ command and control beyond verbal, hand signals and personal contact communications.…
It may seem like an innocent metal whistle but the whistle was used by the NVA and VC as a way of controlling and coordinating troops and attacks etc, a SOG team could confuse the enemy while being tracked by using the whistle.
Extract from “Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 2 – Aviation Theories and other practices” The Mk 13, Mod 0 signal flare is intended to attract the attention of SAR aircraft and to give them drift direction. To avoid being burned by sparks, the ignited Mk 13, Mod 0 signal must be held…
