Marine rifleman from Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, cautiously traverses a muddy rice paddy during a sweep for Viet Cong infiltrators. This photograph was taken on November 26, 1970, five miles west of Danang, Vietnam, by SSgt M. S. Merriman.

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