US Navy Seals in training in the Virgin Islands, February 21, 1963. Note the original verion of the M16 in use here, before it had been actually adopted as a theater rifle by the U.S.
I don't normally put posts from 60 years ago, but as I don't anticipate being around when these photos hit the 75 or 80 year mark, I thought I'd go ahead and post them.
As we have these up, we'll note a few things about the day.
The Telstar 1, the first privately funded satellite, became the first satellite destroyed by radiation. The U.S. had conducted a high altitude nuclear test the day prior.
Oops.
The satellite had inspired a hit instrumental by the Tornados.
The Soviet Communist Party wrote the Chinese one, proposing a meeting in hopes of clearing up differences between the two bodies of thuggery.
In East Berlin, the Communist government yielded in the face of a student protest which simply assigned occupations to graduating students, rather than allow them to pick their own paths, prior to being able to attend university. The occupations that had been chosen were all manual labor jobs.
Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago received a shipment of surplus Mannlicher-Carcano rifles. One of them would later be purchased by Lee Harvey Oswald.
