By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to reload. Only the Marine Corps wanted it. Initially, they had no idea what to call the ugly machine. The military feared that giving it a traditional name of a famous general would offend someone. The troops began referring to it as Ontos, Greek for “The Thing.” But after years of combat in Vietnam, the Marines were just