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When the NVA and Viet Cong began targeting unprotected cargo vehicles on supply routes, the soldiers transformed them into gun trucks. These had their own names, logos, and paint jobs and were retrofitted with steel-armor plating, M2 .50-caliber machine guns, and M134 miniguns. The Army didn't supply the weaponry; the gun truckers themselves salvaged equipment from generous peers in other units.

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The Gun Trucks of Vietnam: How US Soldiers Transformed Cargo Vehicles into Fighting Machines

Truck drivers in Vietnam realized if they were going to return home alive, they needed to upgrade their firepower. Soldiers of the 8th Transport Group who drove in vehicle convoys added twin M60 machine guns to create makeshift gun trucks. The names were inspired by the pop culture of the time: Canned Heat, King Cobra, Snoopy.

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