Running time
50 sec
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
My vehicle was actually Vietnam era. A lot of them were blown up in Vietnam and patched up, so mine had steel welding patches underneath from Vietnam. We just maintained them and kept them going. They've since been replaced with newer versions. But the old M113 was Vietnam era with a 50 cal and a 30-calibre machine gun in the turret.
And my job was just a crew commander with a driver, and we'd carried infantry section in the back. It's a square-based vehicle, compressed aluminium, so quite susceptible to rocket-propelled grenades. Generally anything below that machine gun fire is fine as far as penetration. But predominately troop amphibious armoured vehicle to carry infantry section around.
