Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney, who quietly surpassed Hathcock as the Marine Corps' deadliest. The Oregon native recorded 103 confirmed kills in Vietnam across 16 months in 1968-69. By the time he returned home, he'd also been credited with another 216 "probable kills," a classification for ...
With more than sixty confirmed kills, Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top ranked sniper. This is the harrowing first-person account of his life on and off th... C Kuhlman,DA Davis,D Hill - 《Macmillan》 被引量: 0发表: 2005年 Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues ...
On May 26, 1969, Operation Pipestone Canyon began when the 1st Battalion, 26th Marines and 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines began sweeps in the "Dodge City"/Go Noi areas southwest of Da Nang, Vietnam. 610 enemy troops, as well as 34 Marines, were killed during the operation, which ended appro...
He’s served in two branches, pulled time with two tours in the infantry in Vietnam, and retired out as a Warrant Officer. Here’s his comment: “As far as that “…things change” crap, how about the A-1? It was an old beat up prop job that all the hot-shot jet jockeys (...
As time went by, improvements in precision weaponry were made and maximum effective ranges began to increase. It is said that in Vietnam, the average number of rounds expended per kill with the M16 was 50,000. Snipers averaged 3 rounds per kill. That’s a cost difference of $2300 vs. ...
in 1871 by Yankee officers who had noted the superior fighting ability of individual Confederate soldiers who had grown up hunting and shooting. Sergeant Alvin York in WWI, WWII’s most decorated soldier Audie Murphy, Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam and Chris Kyle in the most recent conflict all ...
Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney, who quietiy surpassed Hathcock as the Marine Corps' deadliest The Oregon native recorded 103 confirmed kills in Vietnam across 16 months in 1968-69. By the time he returned home, he'd also been credited with another 216 "probable kills," a classification for ...