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 Marine Corps sniper community is seeking honor their community’s fallen via a new war memorial. Members of the USMC Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation have a long-term plan, design and are raising ...

It can be hard to hit a target on the ground. It can be even harder in the air. Helo-borne snipers are elite sharpshooters who can do both.

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 ...

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 ...

Today, Hunter Hughes is a senior faceoff specialist for No. 7 men’s lacrosse — but not too long ago, he was a sniper in the United States Marine Corps. The 29-year-old, who walked onto the men’s ...

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 ...