Marines guard Vietnamese farmers during the Vietnam War in 1965. This image shows the marines assisting the farmers in loading bags of rice onto an LVT (landing vehicle, tracked), which will transport it to a warehouse. This intervention ensures that the rice is not taken by the Viet Cong as a form of "taxes."

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