I find myself drawn to this thread, love to hear the stories from Veterans...thank you ; )
I find myself drawn to this thread, love to hear the stories from Veterans...thank you ; )
Ron, That makes sense to me. Hobo woods was a damn nasty neighborhood wasn't it?
Thank you for serving.
Mike
The sniper school you refer to is at the Quantico Marine Corp Base in VA, and Hatchcock helped to establish it.its funny i see this thread, becuase last night i was watching a show about Rangers on the history channel. they talked about how the US rangers needed and developed sniper schools during WW II, Nam, Etc untill they made it a permanent school in i think Virginia and somewhere else. but they did share a few storys about the snipers and one of the guys carlos hathcock; the Vietnam army put a 30,000 bounty on him!! using a M1 Garand i think? he was pretty much unstopable. the history channel did say he passed in 99 due to illness, that guy had some nerves of steel
i appreciate everyone that served and or currently serving, you really do a good job! the stories i have heard are pretty harsh, including sleeping with your weapons, flashbangs and nades because you never know whats going to happen. (i have a officer co worker serving in iraq, but i think he might be back or on leave)
Ron, same as you, we did it all for our brothers and for our outfit. I wouldn't given a week old pair of socks for whovever was running the guvmint in Saigon.Yeah it was Mike. I don't ever remember seeing more complex tunneling systems in all of Nam as I did in those damn woods. Speaking of sp packs, do you remember those nasty Tropical chocolate bars? We used to give them to the kids. Thanks for your service Mike.
Best Regards Ron....Bravo Co. 1/28th. 1ST. Inf. Div. 1968/69
Was the kukri a the standard issue razor for the diggers?