"Marine Sniper Legend Carlos Hathcock: His Own Words” (1993)

once a week, once a week and a quality workout, a quality workout with a quality trainer, not just going out by yourself and saying oh I want to do this today having someone schedule you and not letting you know what's going to happen. pass when you get there sometimes we don't shoot anything at all we practice movement camouflage consuming everything that doesn't come loose now we practice that at different times, but everything is deteriorating if you don't practice it, it will disappear if there is something that was the most important and that really you need to be successful.

As a military

sniper

, what would that really be? Be observation, observation, because that is primarily your job and the shooting is secondary. Shoot this thing there because all the intelligence you gather as a military

sniper

or police sniper is very pertinent to the situation and therefore you have to report it to the powers that be and this shot is almost a secondary thing, if you see someone who is what you estimate to be high ranking and is leading the troops and that is not enough, then you can try to throw him to the ground. period, but how do you use priorities as a military sniper?

The leaders operate the crucified weapons. Communications that are three primaries, those are the three primaries and that's all that ever bothered me. I didn't choose Homer's marketelli because that wasn't my job. It wasn't my job to train Marines or train SWAT snipers. What are the differences? Big difference, as I told you, the police mainly have no discipline. I don't have the right decimal. I kept it and then we got proper discipline until they went through my school for two weeks, then they got it. I understood it because I asked one thing. I insist on one thing that I insist on in my school discipline.

You have to have decimals. They had to produce that shot sitting there for hour after hour switching with your partner and still be able to drive. Once again, there are a lot of misconceptions about what motivates a sniper, but what kind of character is there in The Man Behind the Rifle. Carlos Hathcock gives us some ideas about what it means for you to be a sniper just a function of a unit, like being a truck driver or a person who delivers groceries, it's just another entity of the overall unit, that's how I see it now, many people did not see it any other way, but well, many people think that a sniper is an Elite, no, they are not ugly, one who thinks they are better than the rest, they are not Elite, they simply have a certain job to do like an helicopter driver or you know, and a helicopter pilot has a certain job, today snipers also have a certain job. but they protect the onions, what do you think about the psychological effect of snipers?

It's like a lot of facts are great, it's very, very good and very difficult for the bad guys. Very harmful, very harmful because it negates a movement. Look, NASA's movement restricts their movement. that is what is good to land the cord very well, I think of the example of that company that you kept for five days according to the psychological effect it had on them, well, I already got the connection, said the NBA swasar and was captured , he said no. I know how many were up there or what was up there, but he was dead or whatever, well, like I said, we kept moving, we kept moving, some shooting and movement and uh, it's a very deterrent effect that I've seen in my little tenure and in combat. one shot one shot to take down an entire company, an entire company if you don't know how to combat that shot during deep kimchi, how were you, as a

marine

sapper, received by other

marine

s when they had a problem with the enemy sniper?

Well we were older than uh Oreo Cookies near Braden Oreo Cookies until then no no no no We weren't any of the murderers murderers on the loose and after we eliminated the situation we were still murderers murderers come only when they need you only when they need you is that you He seems like he's a good guy only when you need him because that's training for the powers that be, they look down on snipers and everyone else looks down on snipers because we have a job, the people below don't understand that job, they don't understand what What can be. done for them by snipers some of the people you have trained military police Etc.

How did the city kids compare to the country kid? We're more in tune with this than a sidewalk guy who stands on a straight corner spitting in the gutter, but how about a city boy who's done a lot of hunting? Not by hunting you develop many of those skills, but by hunting you develop a lot. of good skills many good skills if done correctly. I have a city boy here, he is one of my best friends. He couldn't go to the army and I've seen it. I had him as an aggressor in some of our operations and the guy is good, he is very, very good.

He was looking for him with a video camera once I couldn't see him. I told him to stand up, bless you, so I can see that you didn't know anything about military camouflage. Nothing, but he's a good Deer Hunter fantastic Deer Hunter good way he Was hunting different people than the hunting team, is it more or less the same? There is no difference, there is no difference. I watched the Discovery Channel here and got a lot of good advice from the animals to train for another day, like what and moving towards the animals if you stare at an animal he will look at you you will look at you you stink we are animals that's all we are we are animals closeup human being homo sapiens which is very good it is good literary material but we are animals, that is all we are animals and we work in the same way, they do it in exactly the same way and when watching animals on the Discovery Channel I discover many things for my training here, what about first light and last light? first light and last life the best time is because they come out after a good night's rest and they are all the ones he carried and tap dances whistling smoking cigarettes and pipes and whatever that is the best time there is and when they come At night , that's another good time because they're tired, they're not patrolling, they're tired of lazing around, spitting in the gutter and all that stuff, we're wasting our ice padding and, uh, not paying attention to the details, same thing in the tomorrow, not paying attention to details, it is always like human habits that you use against them, no human habit is definitely against you and I will tell you one thing, whether in our service or in any other personal service, to the leaders They love the point, they love our point. boys do what their boys do and they'll say Homer Jethro and it's not spotty there.

I want you to go here, okay, that's a wrong move because you can pick up something heavy, everyone sings that numerous times, numerous times it's there. anything you would like to say think about that audience, anything you would like to say about being a sniper or having been in combat or in the Marine Corps or is it a little advice, something you would like to say, okay, for the Los Police snipers continue to train, continue to train in certain aspects of sniping. You can't do it too much. You can't do it too much. So do it as much as you can.

Put your whole mind and body into it when you're training. Do not do it. just go out and train, high quality training, quality, quality, all the instructors, if you teach them to shoot, that will be for you because it is their life, they live hostages and love our brother, those around him, the team of entry, they support the injury team. and for the military, pay attention to the details, pay attention to the details, train, train, train, like I say, you're in the air, you're shooting in the air, but you had to make each and every shot go. the best and for snipers. it's not an area to shoot your precise point Surgical precision shooting, you have to be very good at one point that you are going to hit and that's it to eliminate the no-reflection situation, well yeah, I have one more question while we're talking about shooting , you know a lot.

Many people talk about the determination to pull the trigger when necessary. You know that's something that you know the sniper obviously has to have. It is something you are born with or a skill that can be taught to someone. I don't believe in climbing. I don't think it's a skill that can be taught, uh, it has to be an end goal, like if you were a hunter or something and you could shoot a squirrel, a rabbit, whatever game you go for. to take home. eat and if you miss it you don't eat tonight, so it has to be ingrained, it has to be there, you have to work it that way and another living, breathing human being.

I didn't like killing him, I really didn't. I wouldn't want to kill him, but be faced with another living, breathing human being who could kill me to scratch him. Could do it. It was a challenge. It was a challenge. How would you like to be remembered? But a roast pig that's an Arkansas man. I know it's all, you're a very famous person, you know, in your field, in that, and when you go, what would you like to be like? I will look at it, I reminded you of your legacy, this, that I did a good job, I did it. good job that's a bit that's all I didn't really have reconnaissance battles and uh training now I have Metals training but no, there are no other battles that I didn't really ask for and no one asked for but you have to have a Well, I guess, or something else and making demon kimchi like I did, but my CEO has always had kimchi because I was on kimchi all the time, but I was just trying to do my job, just trying to do my job.

I saw a woman who is All I want is for us to recognize that someone is a Marine trying to do her job when we talked to Carlos Hathcock, it's not a theory, it's an experience. Gunnery Sergeant Hathcock was the most successful Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam, the founder of the sniper school at Quantico and for a decade. sniper instructor what he has to say is an immeasurable