February 2023 Edition
“I was looking at him, while he was looking at me; I was just a little quicker to the trigger!” – Sgt. Carlos “White Feather” Hathcock, US soldier in the Vietnam War and highly renowned Marine sniper Unfortunately, even the folks of the Vietnam War era are not that familiar with the name of Carlos Hathcock II. If it wasn’t for the internet and a few good books, he’d be all but lost in American and world history. Despite the best attempts by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Hathcock single-handily harassed and became a consistent threat to the NVA top leaders. There are at least a handful of missions that are of more than legendary status when it came to involving Sargent Hathcock. Hathcock was such an immense irritation to the NVA, that they placed a bounty on his life of US$30k – which was a huge sum of money in those days, and at the time, a world record for highest bounty ever on a single person! Fortunately for Carlos, most all of the Vietnamese assassins had a lo