Yessir- Lt. Copy that Charlie-Lima. The first Scout Sniper school I recall in "Nam was actually based in Okinawa, Captain Land was the CO. Gunny Hathcock- L'ong Tran (White Feather) was Captain Land's protegee- Carlos grew up in rural AK, hunting and making one shot kills even on flushed quail with the single shot Stevens .22 LR his dad gave him when he was 10. Story was- when he was 12 or 13, he was given a 20 gauge single shot-which he used for a while on quail, but went back to his .22 LR for 2 valid reasons- (1) cheaper to shoot than the 20 gauge, and (2) as he could head shoot a quail on the wing with that .22, he blew up less meat for the family dinner table with the rifle-ditto for all the squirrel and rabbit dinners he also provided. Show me a farm lad who grew up poor and half-hungry, put him in our beloved USMC, and I'll show you a "dinger" in the making.
