Marine Lance Corporal Michael Co Vega, from Cutler, California, is photographed with various weapons he used to kill 15 Viet Cong guerrillas near Phu Bai in Vietnam. He employed a grenade, an M-14 rifle, a Russian automatic rifle, and a 357 Magnum rifle, trading weapons as each jammed. This Defense Department photo was taken by Sgt. Weih.

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