Posted on Oct 25, 2015
What is the most extraordinary thing you have ever done to accomplish a military mission?
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Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock is a legend of Marine Corps history. One of the most lethal snipers in history, he even repeatedly succeeded in killing snipers sent to hunt him. In one of his last missions on a tour in Vietnam, he crawled nearly two miles to kill a Vietnamese general and escape. When the mission came down, he didn’t have all the details but he knew tough missions at the end of a tour were a recipe for disaster. Rather than send one of his [short timer] men, he volunteered for the mission himself.
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Gunny Hathcock's son, Carlos Hathcock III, also went into the Marine Corps. I never met him but know several Marines that knew him. The last I had heard of him was that he was on a rifle team at Cherry Point.
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PO3 Bobby Quisenberry
I met him, talked with him and had a picture and a book signed by him. I gave the picture to a sister-in-law who worked for the marines to boost her ego and my book got passed around at SEAL Team 6 and disappeared. Carlos used to give a talk every year to the SEAL Teams at Little Creek, here in Norfolk, VA, actually Virginia Beach. He also trained the Virginia Beach swat teams for a while. He died a few years back of Parkinson's disease and is buried in Norfolk in a cemetery off Virginia Beach Blvd.. He was in pretty bad shape in a wheel chair when he died. He wasn't treated like Chris Kyle and the snipers now. Everyone was a little standoffish of him because being a sniper then wasn't considered a good thing in the Vietnam era. It was perceived as sort of akin to being a murderer. The good he did though and the many lives he saved, he killed some people who were a little less than animals. He got hurt severely personally saving some guys who were going to burn to death in an armored personnel carrier after it hit a mine. Just a good ole boy.
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PO3 Bobby Quisenberry
When I read this I accidentally just passed over that it was Carlo's son and not Carlos himself that was being talked about himself. Bad reading (tired reading). My bad, Sorry!
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Adjusted 3,000 rounds of artillery fire from 8 artillery batteries in support of an infantry company caught in an ambush. Operation Coronado V, Mobile Riverine Force September 1967 Vietnam.
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SSgt Dan Montague
Being an artilleryman myself, we catch a lot of flack from the grunts. But when we send hot steel down range, we become best friends for life.
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I an in awe of the accomplishments made by Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock. A Marine legend indeed!
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
Imagine being the poor sucker ordered to go after him! Suicide mission right from the git...
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