Hathcock only once removed the white feather from his bush hat while deployed in Vietnam. During a volunteer mission days before the end of his first deployment, he crawled over 1,500 yards of field to shoot a PAVN General. He was not informed of the details of the mission until he accepted it. This effort took four days and three nights, without sleep, of constant inch-by-inch crawling. Hathcock said he was almost stepped on as he lay camouflaged with grass and vegetation in a meadow shortly after sunset. At one point he was nearly bitten by a bamboo viper, but had the presence of mind to avoid moving and giving up his position. As the General exited his encampment, Hathcock fired a single shot that struck the General in the chest, killing him.

Hathcock estimated that he had killed between 300 and 400 enemy personnel during his time in the Vietnam War.

In January 1987, a Soviet helicopter reconnaissance unit spotted a group of armed men on three motorcycles. “When they saw our choppers they stopped and started shooting at us and fired two missiles… The pilots made a maneuver and lowered the helicopters… The Mi-24s were covering us from above and we started fighting after leaving the chopper,” recalled Lieutenant Vladimir Kovtun. He and four other soldiers won the battle against the mujahedeen thanks to the air support. After the skirmish, they searched the enemy and discovered a Stinger and its technical documentation. For years this was believed to be the first time the Soviet came into possession of the missile launcher. In total, Soviet forces managed to capture 8 sets of FIM-92 units in the Afghan conflict.

Bullet jammed into the ballistic glass protecting the gunner of a U.S. Army Humvee

U.S. Marines of 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, during the Battle of Nasiriyah

BUD/S students during drown proofing in First Phase. Don't mind the blisters, chlorinated pool water will soothe the pain.

Bro that too is fucked

U.S Navy Seals

9/19/01: Eight days after 9/11, CIA officers pick up $3 million cash in three cardboard boxes. This money would enable the Northern Alliance (NA) commanders to pay their troops and convince other tribes to rally to the NA rather than fight them.

A Kurdish militiaman with a Dragunov sniper rifle in Kobane, Syria

Iraqi Special Operations soldiers take cover behind a humvee as their convoy advances through a neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq

The crew of a US AC-47 plane fire 7.62mm GE miniguns on a night mission, Vietnam 1966.

1988, American-Sponsored Mujaheddin Member Prepares To Shoot Down Soviet Plane Over Afghanistan

polish army soldiers during exercises somewhere 2000-2010

A US 160th SOAR, Special Operations Aviation Regiment, MH-6M Littlebird. Photo taken during the 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa by Duane Hewitt.

Anybody else been listening to hardcore history podcast’s “supernova in the east” series

ill have to check that out

Yeah I like all of his podcasts but that series is very good, a look into the pacific theater during WW2

Polish soldiers 2011 Helmand Afghanistan

Oh those are true AK47 and not AKMs

that blue one is the hotness

***Holy fuck***

The longer you look the crazier it becomes.

Badass with a PKM, check
Backpack fed, check
Foot lomg suppressor, check
One handing it to flex on the weak, check

There's a warwave of him that says "modern Cossacks"

Nice

Can someone share it?

Wait one, I might have it still

Thanks man

U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician aboard the aircraft carrier: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

Rangers pulling security for POTUS in Afghanistan.

Pvt. Charles Preston brushes off a snow covered .30 cal machine gun during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944

Isn't that literally full of water?

Atleast the barrel

I would hope they put some sort of coolant or similar in it. The water freezing would probably damage the barrel.

That actually makes sense

@iTz_Land0n it wasnt uncommon to pack water jackets with snow. Shouldn't be an issue

about to drop some afghan aesthetic from my 2010 Deployment to Marjah, hope you kings enjoy this shit

this is all 2nd Battalion 6th Marines fox company "the ready battalion" "fighting fox, 79th company"

wellp. someone tag me in this chan

so I can jerk off inna mornin