Posted on 02/16/2024 5:08:00 AM PST by nuconvert
Legendary U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper Charles Benjamin “Chuck” Mawhinney died at the age of 75 after an incredible life, both in the military and after. Mawhinney is famous for over 100 confirmed kills as a sniper in Vietnam.
“I’m just a simple person, and in Vietnam, I was just doing my job.” Mawhinney once said. His famous quote represents just how humble he was. Mawhinney worked for the U.S. Forest Service after his time in the Marines, retiring after 27 years, and for most of his life, no one knew just how legendary he was.
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Meet Chuck Mawhinney, The Deadliest Sniper Of The Vietnam War
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Rest In Peace, Marine.
Semper Fi
Looks like a Winchester model 70.
RIP, may God bless...
Semper Fi.
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R.I.P.
Carlos Hathcock in there somewhere too? Men like this doing there duty in mortal combat while FBI takes out women, dogs, children.
RIP mein guter kamerade.
While exceptions always exist in combat, the standard Marine Corps sniper rifle was a Remington Model 40x rifle (target/varmint version of the Remington Model 700).
Nope.
This is Mawhinney's rifle on display in the USMC museum.
When Ed Land founded the modern USMC Scout-Sniper school in Vietnam, he started with a dozen M70s chambered in .30-06 Springfield he'd snitched from Camp Pendleton's Special Services, which loaned them out for deer hunting. Then he got several more match-tuned M70s from the Corp's marksmanship unit. They were unloading them because the NRA had changed its rules and they no longer could use them in National Match competition.
Land sent some of his people to the PX in Okinawa to buy bases, rings and scopes, mostly Unertls. That was the gun Carlos Hathcock was issued in 1966 (the armorer's inspection tag on Hatchock's noted that his rifle's barrel had "mild pitting throughout").
When the Corps decided to turn loose of some cash so Land could expand his program, Winchester didn't show any interest in supporting them. Remington, on the other hand, appeared eager and even cut them a sweetheart deal. When Mawhinney got to Vietnam the standard issue sniper's rifle was an M700 (the first 700 were Model 40x's) chambered in 7.62 NATO. Most were fitted with a Redfield 3x9 scope.
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MEET THE HIGHEST-SCORING SNIPER OF THE VIETNAM WAR
Adelbert Waldron III killed 109 enemies in Vietnam.
https://www.historynet.com/adelbert-waldron-top-sniper-vietnam/
“To Saint Peter he will tell:
One more Marine reporting sir,
I’ve served my time in hell.”!
SEMPER FI
5th MEB
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