Carlos Hathcock story

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  • Jeff L
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    • Aug 2009
    • 1984

    #1

    Carlos Hathcock story

    Enjoy!
    His story in the U.S. Naval magazine, The Sea Tiger, had made his name known at last to the North Vietnamese. For months this Marine sniper had killed
    Spam Sniper- one click, one kill.

    CSP is what you make it.

    A picture of your gun is worth 1,000 words. A crappy picture is only worth 100.
  • joem
    Senior Member, Deceased
    • Aug 2009
    • 11835

    #2
    I've read it several times but always a good read.

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    • Jon Field
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 191

      #3
      Interesting that they used a picture of L/Cpl Gunderson atop the article.
      Freedom is not free, the cost can be seen everyday, for it is engraved in marble, cast in bronze and highlighted with little American flags!

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      • Marine A5 Sniper Rifle
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2009
        • 7450

        #4
        Hathcock's spotter/sniper that day, John Burke, later earned the MOH (posthumously).

        The serial number of that VC sniper's rifle is known, and someday it will turn up. I pity the sorry SOB that stole it from Hathcock.

        jt

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        • BlitzKrieg
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2009
          • 573

          #5
          He was also loaned out at times, such as to kill a Frenchman who specialized in interrogating prisoners, and later to knock off a general whose location could very well have been over the border in North Vietnam or Laos. Neither were ever verified.

          Read more: http://sofrep.com/19515/sergeant-car...#ixzz2Y53GVSpZ


          That he was exceptional sniper is fact. Somethings don't add up though on other facts but its now legend and myth
          like the cherry tree and George Washington. There has been some liberal journalism at play here and in my opinion,
          Hathcock spun a few lines of it himself. The shots on Cobra and Apache ? Dead right they happened. So did his other
          confirmed kills . Those are fact.

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