Marine sniper credited with longest confirmed kill in Iraq

.Marine Corps News ^ | Jan. 02, 2005 | Cpl. Paul W. Leicht

[mental]

Allah can't save you from Marine snipers from TEXAS.

[humblegunner]

Texas sniper ping.

[gortklattu]

One thing is for sure, this guy didn't have me as an instructor. I'm NO good at long range.

Hey, Muhammad, get up.......there's no way that guy can hit you from so far away..

[HMFIC]

US Marine POINT-FIRED German troops in WW1 at the Battle of Belleau Woods at EIGHT HUNDRED YARDS with OPEN IRON SIGHTS of the M1903 Springfield!

R Lee said it best: "There is nothing more deadly in the world than a Marine and his rifle."

[Flyer]

Texans ping. . .

[Flyer]

GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!

[snarks_when_bored]

Outstanding.

[Enterprise]

Muhammed said: "Go forth and kill the infidel."

The Marine said: "Yeah, well come deep."

[ShadowDancer]

Must be something with the last name Hancock and great snipers.

[ProudVet77]

Still don't like them giving out snipers names. They don;t give out pilots names. After the ugliness with the skippe of the USS Vincennes, I prefer no last names be given. It's not like the bad guys are not over hear reading the same articles and watching the same news as we are.

[gortklattu]

The "other" Herbie Hancock once made an album called "Head Hunters."

How 'bout that?

[CDHart]

I'm not sure it's a good idea to publicly identify these snipers. Lord know what the terrorists could do in retaliation.

Carolyn

[ShadowDancer]

Hahahaha. I was referring to Carlos forgetting his last name was Hathcock, not Hancock. Oh well, close enough. I'm surprised I even remembered that much this early.

[Pharmboy]

Yep...I'm with you. Name and hometown is TMI.

[Happy2BMe]

TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS - JIHAD MAGGOTS - YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE - ping.

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"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."

Sgt. Herbert B. Hancock, chief scout sniper, sniper platoon, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is credited with the longest confirmed kill in Iraq, hitting enemy terrorists from 1,050 yards in Fallujah Nov. 11, 2004. Hancock, a 35-year-old activated reservist and police officer from Bryan, Texas, has been a Marine Corps sniper since 1992. Photo by: Cpl. Paul W. Leicht

[mental]

Still don't like them giving out snipers names.

I thought about that before posting this. Has anything ever happened to these guys or their families?

[newsgatherer]

Time to make that guy a Staff Sgt. SSgt. Herbert B. Hancock humm, has a nice ring to it, seems to me I kinda remember another guy by that name who was with Kilo 3/6 back in the Sixties, wonder if he is any relation.

[Enterprise]

"One Shot One Kill," a great book about Carlos Hathcock.

[Tortenboxer]

Don't worry. Both the story and the name are not real. Fallujah was a good job, but I wish they would stop releasing those BS "success stories". One Baghdad Bob is enough.

[HMFIC]

"Achmed, you can RUN, but you'll only die TIRED!"