Vietnam was a war of firepower — artillery, air strikes, and the rifle's automatic fire — and yet the Marines never stopped training with the bayonet. There was a reason. When a patrol walked into an ambush, the surest way out was often the hardest: not to go to ground under the guns, but to turn and assault straight through the kill zone, closing the distance until the ambushers had to break or be overrun. Against dug-in bunkers and spider holes, the fight came down to a few yards and whatever was fixed to the end of the rifle. These two Marines, charging forward with bayonets fixed, are that doctrine in motion.

K&C sculpts the pair mid-charge — one Marine upright at a run, the other crouched low, both driving forward with bayonets fixed to their M16s. They wear flak jackets, jungle utilities, and camouflage-covered M1 helmets over full field gear, each on a sculpted groundwork base. Built for motion, they lead an assault diorama: going in behind the Marines laying down covering fire, past the cautiously advancing point men who found the enemy, and over the kneeling grunts holding the base of fire.

King & Country model VN138. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — two Marines charging with fixed bayonets — on sculpted groundwork bases. Boxed.