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Carlos Norman Hathcock II
Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps

Carlos Norman Hathcock II was born on 20 May 1942 in Little Rock, AR. He grew up in rural Arkansas, living with his grandmother after his parents separated. He took to shooting and hunting at an early age, partly out of necessity to help feed his poor family. He would go into the woods with his dog and pretend to be a soldier and hunt imaginary Nazis in his "own little Germany." He would hunt at that early age with a rifle that his father had brought back from Europe during World War II. Hathcock dreamed of being a Marine throughout his childhood, and so on 20 May 1959, at the age of 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Before deploying to Vietnam, Hathcock had won shooting championships, including matches at Camp Perry and the Wimbledon Cup. In 1966 Hathcock started his deployment in Vietnam as an MP and later became a sniper after Captain Edward James Land pushed the Marines into raising snipers in every platoon. Land later recruited Marines who had set their own records in sharpshooting; he quickly found H

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The White Feather Sniper: Carlos Hathcock

During the Vietnam War, Marine Corps Veteran Carlos Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills of North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong personnel.

At a young age, Carlos Norman Hathcock II would go into the woods with his dog and the Mauser his father brought back from World War II to pretend to be a soldier. Hathcock dreamed of being a Marine throughout his childhood, and on May 20, 1959, at the age of 17, he enlisted.

In 1966, Hathcock started his deployment in South Vietnam. He initially served as a military policeman and later, owing to his reputation as a skilled marksman, served as a sniper.

During the Vietnam War, Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong personnel. However, kills had to be confirmed by an acting third party, who had to be an officer, besides the sniper’s spotter. Hathcock estimated that he actually killed between 300 and 400 enemy soldiers.

In one instance, Hathcock saw a glint reflecting off an enemy sniper’s scope. He fired at it, sending a round through the enemy’s own ri

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5 Amazing Stories from Marine Corps Legend Carlos Hathcock

Few Vietnam-era Marines are more storied than legendary sniper Carlos Hathcock. He didn't just his success by confirmed kills or the longest shots taken (though he held both records in his lifetime). Others tend to judge a sniper in those ways, but that didn't matter to Gunny Hathcock.

He didn't enjoy the killing; he enjoyed the hunt.

His hunts are the stuff of legend. Hathcock was an expert marksman from a very young age. So even though he deployed to Vietnam as a military policeman in 1966, he was soon transferred to sniper duty.

And that changed everything.

Hathcock was so efficient at dispatching the enemy, he wore a white feather on his gear, taunting the Communists to come find him. Before his 1999 death from multiple sclerosis, Hathcock gave a candid interview about his time in Vietnam.

1. A Whole Company of North Vietnamese Army (NVA)

Hathcock recalled a time he had the "misfortune" of running into an NVA infantry unit so new, even their uniforms were new. Most importantly, they had no communications.