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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 813752" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>Que Son Valley area, and to be exact about eight Klicks due south of th southern tip of the Hiep Duc Ridge was the first one. That would be in very late August or mid September 1968. I had that rifle for awhile before giving it away, and had an SF armorer look up the numbers and the proof marks for me. It was a late manufactured rifle that was shipped to Engand. By the way it as an extremely accurate rifle used by a guy that had no idea what he was doing with it. It even had the issued scope on it. I late ran into threeor four others in use by the NVA, but rarely saw them actually using a standard M1 Garrand (odd?). They like the M1 and M2 Carbine better than anything.</p><p> </p><p>I did see Marines using a couple scoped M14's over by Baldy or maybe Ross (probably Hathcock's unit). They were shooting from inside the wire and targets in the five to seven hundred yard range. Didn't talk to them, as I was getting ready to CA into the valley early the next morning (was probably Ross now that I think about it). On the otherhand, the track sargent (or whatever they call the head dude in the motor pool in a CAV unit) was tasked with the road sweep on Highway One every morning. He took an M48 with a couple ACAV's and had his guys and several Marines with him (A Troop 1st / 1st CAV out of Hawkhill). There was always at least one Marine sniper with them, and what hey used varied by whatever they wanted to carry tha day. Sometimes there was a bolt gun, and many times an M14. That Sargent and I are close friends, but never knew each other in the combat zone. My base camp was about a klick south of the Hiep Duc Ridge and his was close to 35 klicks east, but we often crossed pathes (strange). The CAV units in my AO were either the 17th or most of the time B troop 1st/1st. </p><p> </p><p>Speaking of Carlos Hathcock! Last year I came into an autographed copy of his book (actually there are three different autographs on this one). It's not the 91 Confirmed Kills book. Really good read, and pretty much a bio of him.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 813752, member: 25383"] Que Son Valley area, and to be exact about eight Klicks due south of th southern tip of the Hiep Duc Ridge was the first one. That would be in very late August or mid September 1968. I had that rifle for awhile before giving it away, and had an SF armorer look up the numbers and the proof marks for me. It was a late manufactured rifle that was shipped to Engand. By the way it as an extremely accurate rifle used by a guy that had no idea what he was doing with it. It even had the issued scope on it. I late ran into threeor four others in use by the NVA, but rarely saw them actually using a standard M1 Garrand (odd?). They like the M1 and M2 Carbine better than anything. I did see Marines using a couple scoped M14's over by Baldy or maybe Ross (probably Hathcock's unit). They were shooting from inside the wire and targets in the five to seven hundred yard range. Didn't talk to them, as I was getting ready to CA into the valley early the next morning (was probably Ross now that I think about it). On the otherhand, the track sargent (or whatever they call the head dude in the motor pool in a CAV unit) was tasked with the road sweep on Highway One every morning. He took an M48 with a couple ACAV's and had his guys and several Marines with him (A Troop 1st / 1st CAV out of Hawkhill). There was always at least one Marine sniper with them, and what hey used varied by whatever they wanted to carry tha day. Sometimes there was a bolt gun, and many times an M14. That Sargent and I are close friends, but never knew each other in the combat zone. My base camp was about a klick south of the Hiep Duc Ridge and his was close to 35 klicks east, but we often crossed pathes (strange). The CAV units in my AO were either the 17th or most of the time B troop 1st/1st. Speaking of Carlos Hathcock! Last year I came into an autographed copy of his book (actually there are three different autographs on this one). It's not the 91 Confirmed Kills book. Really good read, and pretty much a bio of him. gary [/QUOTE]
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