Eaglestrikes
01-05-05, 08:40 PM
Chuck Mawhinney. 103 confirmed kills.
Carlos Hathcock. Longest confirmed kill. Hathcock was once accredited with hitting a NVA at 2,500 yards with a special scope-adapted .50 caliber machine gun converted to single shot operation. 93 Confirmed
AR RAMADI, Iraq (Jan. 02, 2005) -- Seen through a twenty-power spot scope, terrorists scrambled to deliver another mortar round into the tube. Across the Euphrates River from a concealed rooftop, the Marine sniper breathed gently and then squeezed a few pounds of pressure to the delicate trigger of the M40A3 sniper rifle in his grasp.
The rifle's crack froze the booming Fallujah battle like a photograph. As he moved the bolt back to load another round of 7.62mm ammunition, the sniper's spotter confirmed the terrorist went down from the shot mere seconds before the next crack of the rifle dropped another.
It wasn't the sniper's first kill in Iraq, but it was one for the history books.
"From the information we have, our chief scout sniper has the longest confirmed kill in Iraq so far," said Capt. Shayne McGinty, weapons platoon commander for "Bravo" Co. "In Fallujah there were some bad guys firing mortars at us and he took them out from more than 1,000 yards."
"After we had called in indirect fire and after all the adjustments from our mortars, I got the final 8-digit grid coordinates for the enemy mortar position, looked at our own position using GPS and figured out the distance to the targets we dropped to be 1,050 yards," said Flowers with a grin. "This time we were killing terrorism from more than 1,000 yards."
There are more. Many more.
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Tom Ferran, Scout/Sniper 7th Marines, 41 confirmed kills in Viet Nam '67, consultant to the movie "SNIPER", also featured in Death From Afar vol. ll, and Stalk And Kill.
George Filyaw, 54 confirmed kills with the 5th marines in RVN,
James Gularte, 40 confirmed kills in RVN and namesake of the Honorman Trophy at 1 Mar Div S/S School,
Stephen Suttles, 63 confirmed kills in RVN,
Raymond W. Westphal, 49 confirmed kills in RVN,
Uhhhrahhh.:marine:
Carlos Hathcock. Longest confirmed kill. Hathcock was once accredited with hitting a NVA at 2,500 yards with a special scope-adapted .50 caliber machine gun converted to single shot operation. 93 Confirmed
AR RAMADI, Iraq (Jan. 02, 2005) -- Seen through a twenty-power spot scope, terrorists scrambled to deliver another mortar round into the tube. Across the Euphrates River from a concealed rooftop, the Marine sniper breathed gently and then squeezed a few pounds of pressure to the delicate trigger of the M40A3 sniper rifle in his grasp.
The rifle's crack froze the booming Fallujah battle like a photograph. As he moved the bolt back to load another round of 7.62mm ammunition, the sniper's spotter confirmed the terrorist went down from the shot mere seconds before the next crack of the rifle dropped another.
It wasn't the sniper's first kill in Iraq, but it was one for the history books.
"From the information we have, our chief scout sniper has the longest confirmed kill in Iraq so far," said Capt. Shayne McGinty, weapons platoon commander for "Bravo" Co. "In Fallujah there were some bad guys firing mortars at us and he took them out from more than 1,000 yards."
"After we had called in indirect fire and after all the adjustments from our mortars, I got the final 8-digit grid coordinates for the enemy mortar position, looked at our own position using GPS and figured out the distance to the targets we dropped to be 1,050 yards," said Flowers with a grin. "This time we were killing terrorism from more than 1,000 yards."
There are more. Many more.
http://www.afreeimagehost.com/upload/1433/SniperProChoice.jpg
Tom Ferran, Scout/Sniper 7th Marines, 41 confirmed kills in Viet Nam '67, consultant to the movie "SNIPER", also featured in Death From Afar vol. ll, and Stalk And Kill.
George Filyaw, 54 confirmed kills with the 5th marines in RVN,
James Gularte, 40 confirmed kills in RVN and namesake of the Honorman Trophy at 1 Mar Div S/S School,
Stephen Suttles, 63 confirmed kills in RVN,
Raymond W. Westphal, 49 confirmed kills in RVN,
Uhhhrahhh.:marine: