The last eight Marines graduated from the course that trains scout snipers — an elite role the Marine Corps has scrapped as part of broader changes to the force. Eight Marines graduated from the last ...

The shadows grew long on a cold, clear December night at Camp Geiger, North Carolina, as a bonfire raged and a pig roasted -- it was an initiation into an elite club that would grow no more after that ...

That count also makes him the deadliest sniper of the entire Vietnam War. For many years, Mawhinney did not boast or make public his record of confirmed kills. He didn't even go into detail with those ...

The Oregon Senate and House of Representatives have both passed a resolution honoring the late Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, the longtime Baker City resident who holds the Marine Corps records for ...

This video discusses the United States Marine Corps Scout Snipers. USMC Scout Snipers are a secondary MOS (0317) for Marines, held by infantrymen and Reconnaissance Marines. In order to become a Scout ...

"The Sniper" includes many color photographs of Chuck Mawhinney during his service as a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam, 1967-69. Chuck Mawhinney, who set a record as a U.S. Marine Corps sniper in ...

For more than a quarter century, Chuck Mawhinney’s unprecedented record as a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam was unknown. Hidden, just as the longtime Baker City resident was so many times in the fetid ...

Alex Lemons, a former Marine sergeant who deployed to Iraq three times – including once as scout sniper – reflects on the video of four Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead Taliban in ...

Chuck Mawhinney, the Camp Pendleton Marine who became the deadliest sniper in the corps’ history while serving in the Vietnam War, died on Monday at his home in Baker City, Oregon. He was 75. The ...