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Vietnam War: Why did U.S. soldiers hold their rifles freeform (sometime even with one hand) instead of strapping them to their chests like soldiers do today, in order to provide an additional level of protection from incoming bullets?

by /u/blueskies21 in /r/AskHistorians

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