Posted on Oct 25, 2015
What is the most extraordinary thing you have ever done to accomplish a military mission?
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Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock is a legend of Marine Corps history. One of the most lethal snipers in history, he even repeatedly succeeded in killing snipers sent to hunt him. In one of his last missions on a tour in Vietnam, he crawled nearly two miles to kill a Vietnamese general and escape. When the mission came down, he didn’t have all the details but he knew tough missions at the end of a tour were a recipe for disaster. Rather than send one of his [short timer] men, he volunteered for the mission himself.
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Responses: 24
I got around a treaty in support of the Naval Special Boat Units and Marines stationed at Little Creek during the Persian Gulf War. I didn't exactly brake the treaty a couple of times technically, but you be the judge. Marines needed about a hundred M-16s in Bahrain, which it was forbidden to ship weapons there by treaty, so I had the gunner mates to remove all the firing pins and ship the M-16s without the firing pins along with the firing pins separately as gun parts. They just got reassembled there in Bahrain! Then again the Navy Special Boat Units had tied their boats up to the barge Hercules, the Naval Special Warfare barge, when a tempest came up and beat them to pieces. They had to be taken to Bahrain to be repaired. They needed some big deck guns sent to them to replace the ruined ones, but it was again against the treaty to ship weapons into Bahrain. I had the gunner mates pull the barrels off the guns and again shipped them separately as gun parts which was legal. Where there's a will there is a way! Hoo-Rah!
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Can't beat Gunny Hathcock. My S&S Co was at Ft Drum for annual inspection by an Active CPT. We had a field bakery unit that was going to fail because they didn't have a scale to weigh the dough for bread. I was the Supply Sgt and they never told me they were short so I could order one. I asked the CPT to give me two hours before he wrote them up. I grabbed my supply clerk and the CO's jeep and drove to the commissary on Post. I asked the produce manager if I could Bororo a produce scale. I got the scale back to the bakery section and they passed. Mission accomplished and I received by name recognition for ingenuity from the CPT on hid final report.
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Broke into a SSG's tool box to fix a 2 1/2 to get it back to the Armory. the SSG said I did the right thing to get it home.
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Spent two weeks in Basrah, with my supply clerk, injecting 5000 cases of expired atropine auto-injectors into the hesco to get rid of them because: medical wouldn't take them because they were "hazardous material". Haz-mat wouldn't take them because they were "medical supplies".
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