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Photo G0873: Crew compartment of a 720th MP Battalion Armored gun jeep in South Vietnam in 1967. The ballistics glass panels are stacked in the back (red circle).One of the window slots to hold the glass is marked with a (blue circle). The Battalion continually stressed the valuable use of the glass to stop small arms fire, however, the MP's removed the panels because they restricted their view and ability to return fire from below the top of the armor walls. The panels would quickly become unusable for vision after only a few weeks of use due to the constant scratching from dust and dirt particles encountered during the convoy escorts. Courtesy SP/4 Robert E. “Twiggie” Henslee, A Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, August 1967 to September 1968.