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Carlos Hathcock .30-06
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 722293" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>from what I read and heard, there was a guy in the 9th Infatry Divison down in the delta that had hundreds of confirmed kills, but the all time leader was actually a helecopter pilot. His tally was way over 1000 KIA's. Shot most of them out the side window of his chopper with a generic rifle (nobody said he wasn't nuts!). A lot of the KIA numbers has to do with were you were posted. Had a sniper been assigned to the Kam Duc area, he'd probably averaged over a hundred kills a month. There were some snipers assigned to SOG that probably did two dozen a month in Laos and Cambodia, but we'll probably never know for sure. Plus there were hatchet team guys that probably ETS'd with over 250 KIA a piece, and that job often cut your tour off on the short side. In some areas your life expectancey rapidly shortend everytime you pulled the trigger, as the NVA had ther own hunter killer teams that were most often very well equiped. While in other places it was business as usual. Still five or six thousand KIA's is a smallish fraction compaired to the big numbers (minimum of 665K), but most interesting.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 722293, member: 25383"] from what I read and heard, there was a guy in the 9th Infatry Divison down in the delta that had hundreds of confirmed kills, but the all time leader was actually a helecopter pilot. His tally was way over 1000 KIA's. Shot most of them out the side window of his chopper with a generic rifle (nobody said he wasn't nuts!). A lot of the KIA numbers has to do with were you were posted. Had a sniper been assigned to the Kam Duc area, he'd probably averaged over a hundred kills a month. There were some snipers assigned to SOG that probably did two dozen a month in Laos and Cambodia, but we'll probably never know for sure. Plus there were hatchet team guys that probably ETS'd with over 250 KIA a piece, and that job often cut your tour off on the short side. In some areas your life expectancey rapidly shortend everytime you pulled the trigger, as the NVA had ther own hunter killer teams that were most often very well equiped. While in other places it was business as usual. Still five or six thousand KIA's is a smallish fraction compaired to the big numbers (minimum of 665K), but most interesting. gary [/QUOTE]
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