James Tree Machin

1968

rifles
rifle ranges
riflemen
soldiers
Vietnam
Vietnam War
drill ammunition
machine guns
Fire Support Bases (FSB)
military camps
military personnel
fortifications
sandbags
air bases
Landing Zone (LZ)
Military training

Mad minute on LZ Ike, 1968. In the Vietnam War, the "mad minute" was used to describe a drill involving intense automatic weapons fire, intended to flush out infiltrators or ambushes. The area targeted would be something which provided potential concealment for an enemy but not very good protection from projectiles, such as the vegetation line at the edge of a field, or at the edge of a cleared free fire zone around a fire base. All soldiers involved would direct the heaviest rate of continuous fire they could into that area for one minute. Photo by James Tree Machin.

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