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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...1 and remained through the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Following the war, the title Surgeon's Steward was abolished in favor of [[Apothecary]], a po ...lobbied the Navy administration to take action. With the Spanish-American War looming, Congress passed a bill authorizing establishment of the U.S. Navy
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...bombing''' (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) during the Lebanese Civil War, two [[truck bomb]]s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the Un ...nam War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II.<ref name=HouseReport>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-09-30
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...all|destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and pr ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...ll-class]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. ...tactics, maneuvering, and the hundreds of other tasks demanded of a man-o-war.
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• USS Haverfield (DE-393)
  ...''-class]] [[destroyer escort]] built for the [[U.S. Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and pr ==World War II North Atlantic operations==
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  ...to [[South Vietnam]] 15 June 1972<br/>Captured by [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]] May 1975 ...0-caliber ([[12.7-millimeter]]) [[machine gun]]s<br/>All [[antisubmarine]] weapons (previously 1 x [[Mark 10]] Mod 0 [[antisubmarine]] projector, 2 x Mark 32
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• AK-630
  ...y purpose is defense against anti-ship missiles and other precision guided weapons. However it can also be employed against fixed or rotary wing aircraft, shi *{{flag|Vietnam}}
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• USS Tucumcari (PGH-2)
  ==Construction, operations in San Diego, and deployment to Vietnam== ...Market Time, the shoreline patrol established to stop the flow from North Vietnam of Communist arms and infiltrators. While performing this duty, she logged
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• 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun
  |wars=[[World War II]]<br>[[Korean War]]<br>[[Vietnam War]]<br>[[Gulf War]] | url = http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_16-50_mk7.htm
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• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
  ...|Soviet Union}}, <br>{{flag|People's Republic of China}}, <br>{{flag|North Vietnam}}, <br>{{flag|Cambodia}} |wars=[[Vietnam War]], [[Cambodian Civil War]]
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  |wars= World War II, Korea, Vietnam, First Gulf, Falklands, and wars that involved navies who bought surplus WW ...is limited to 35° elevation,<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_5-38_mk12.htm |title=United States of America 5"/38 (12.7 cm) Mark 12
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• 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun
  |wars= Vietnam and other wars ...the increasing speed of naval aircraft made manual aiming of antiaircraft weapons impractical. The [[5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun|Mark 45 lightweight]] (22.1 lo
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• 8"/55 caliber gun
  |wars= [[World War II]]<br/>[[Korean War]]<br/>[[Vietnam War]] * {{cite book| title=Naval Weapons of World War Two |author=Campbell, John |publisher=Naval Institute Press |year=1985 |id=
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• AK-176
  * {{flag|Vietnam}} [[Category:Cold War weapons of the Soviet Union]]
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• United States 40 mm grenades
  ...for both types of 40 mm grenades, but over the years the functions of the weapons using these grenades has dramatically expanded, and as a result the need to The M463 was a specialist type developed during the conflict in Vietnam by AAI, and was "SF" or Smokeless/Flashless, and used a type of piston syst
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...r]], [[South African Border War]], [[Falklands War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Iraq War]] ...ems during [[World War II]], used by most of the western [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] as well as various other forces. It is often referred to simply
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• Carl Gustav M/45
  |wars=[[Vietnam War]]<br>[[Congo Crisis]]<br>[[Israeli-Arab conflict]] ...nufactured at the [[Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori]] (Carl Gustaf State Weapons Factory) in [[Eskilstuna]], Sweden. The m/45 was the standard submachine gu
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• Gatling gun
  ...on [[Battle of San Juan Hill|San Juan Hill]] during the [[Spanish-American War]].<ref name="enc-sjh">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O126- ...reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is.<ref>Paul Wahl and Don Toppel, '''The Gatling Gun''', Arco Publishing, 1
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• M197 Gatling gun
  ...M197 began in [[1967 in aviation|1967]] after experience in the [[Vietnam War]] revealed the inadequacy of the 7.62 mm [[Minigun]] for gunship use. The M * [http://tri.army.mil/LC/CS/csa/cpm197.htm US Army Helicopter Weapons Team]
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...r on Terror]] ([[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], [[Iraq War|Iraq]]) ..."Ma Deuce" is a [[heavy machine gun]] designed towards the end of [[World War I]] by [[John Browning]]. It is very similar in design to John Browning's e
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