USAF Security Police used the S&W Model 15. Investigators and others requiring easily concealed weapons carried snub-nose Police Positives.
Aviators used the Model 10 along with riverine craft crewmen. 38 Special revolvers were used to include the S&W Model 10 and Colt Police Positive. TH3 is a more effective compound than thermite and burns at 4,330☏. Three were carried in tanks to destroy the main gun, radio, and engine. Mainly used to destroy equipment and prevent its capture/use. Thermite grenade AN-M14 incendiary hand grenade is actually thermate (TH3) filled, not thermite. Aka “bazooka.” Replaced by the M72 LAW and 90mm M67 recoilless rifle and declared obsolete in 1970. Three-point-five The 3.5-in (89mm) M20A1B1 rocket launcher. There was little more a grunt could gratefully expect than dry socks (which can be inferred as a dry place to sleep) and three hot meals a day, even if just heated C-rats. Extract, page 178-Example of a typical page. Its approach to the study of Vietnam slang is somewhat different than found in other dictionaries.ģ. Casemate Publishers recently released Grunt Slang in Vietnam: Words of the Warin hardback and Kindle formats, 240 pages and 1,500 entries. I started collected slang while in Vietnam and ever since. There are a few Vietnam slang dictionaries about, handback, paperback, and on-line, but to me there more to slang dictionaries that a simple word definition. Sometimes those memories are a bit rusty nonetheless those old and sometimes funny or odd words spill out.
That was a long time ago, 50 years or more for most of us. The priest said in the coming years his team plans to compile a further 1,000 Catholic terms related to Church, Christianity, morality, canon law, ministry, philosophy, spirituality and theology.Have you ever found yourself throwing out some slang word recalled from Vietnam at an appropriate or not so appropriate moment? Most Vietnam vets have done this. It uses latest Church documentation and theological books, and most of all refers to Catholic Church catechism, he said.įather Pierre Nguyen Chi Thiet, head of the team responsible for the dictionary, said about 150 bishops, priests, Religious and ordinary Catholics who specialize in Church history, culture, linguistics, philosophy, scripture and theology compiled the dictionary over four years.įather Thiet, who obtained a doctorate in dogmatic theology in Rome in 1970, explained the format presents each Vietnamese term along with its closest equivalents in Chinese, Latin, English and French. The dictionary is seen as a first step to fulfilling this wish, he added.īishop Doc said the book, with 500 basic Christian terms, has concise, clear and comprehensible definitions. “This work stems from the local Church’s dearest wish to promote indigenous Catholic theology in the future,” the bishop said.
Most Vietnamese Christian dictionaries sold in local Catholic bookstores are translated from foreign originals, he noted. “Today I would like to introduce you to the first Catholic Dictionary in Vietnamese,” Bishop Paul Bui Van Doc of My Tho, head of the bishops’ Episcopal Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith, told about 200 Catholics at the launch ceremony yesterday at the Archbishop’s Residence in Ho Chi Minh City. Church people expect the first Vietnamese Catholic dictionary, launched with great fanfare yesterday, will make a major contribution in developing theology in Vietnam.
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