Not a Vietnam veteran, but have known quite a few, so here are the dead give-aways that this guy is a deplorable POS:
His specialty was long distance shooting of the type never before attempted in what was then modern warfare.
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Bullshit, long range sniping has been around a long, long time.
During summer vacation, many of us went to Boot camp at Parris Island MCRD in San Diego, in California.
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Last time I checked, Parris Island was in South Carolina.
In 1964, I, along with 5 others, which formed 2, 3-man teams where flown to Bangkok, Thailand to commence even for, hands on training.
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A. Scout-snipers normally operated in 2-man teams, and were trained as such.
B. (Just from logic here) Why the Hell are they training in Thailand and not stateside or in Vietnam?
One of the older guys smiled and told us to hop in and we did, and we went about 2 miles (we got used to, from then on, using the term click/s for kilometers)
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Why is this guy explaining shit that anybody who has seen a poorly-done Vietnam War movie would know?
Well, mine was shaving the sides of my head and leaving a 4 inch wide “Mohawk”, doing mediation, and 100 sit-ups and push-ups as fast as I could, and then smoke a “joint” of the best “weed” that was available and settle in for transport to my next LZ.
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Yeah, I can totally see a professional Marine (black ops no less [rolleyes]) about to go into combat getting high. After all, he's so good that he doesn't need all his wits about him to survive. This thing reads like a bad sequel to [i]Platoon[/i].
As I said we were allowed to use any weapon that was available back at the “hotel”, and so I picked a .308 that had a barrel that was 48 inches long (stock M14 was 44 ¼) and had a 1-14in. twist. A 5 shot clip and an experimental (at that time) Tasco 16X42 scope that was about 20 in. long.
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48 inch [red]barrel[/red]? 5-shot [red]clip[/red]? Tasco that is 20 inches long?
I was firing a 150 grn. slug (bullet), that exited at about 2, 800 fps.
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NATO standard is 147 grains. I can't remember now what the Lake City precision load is, either 165 or 168 grns.