Redigerer Carlos Hathcock

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'''Carlos Norman Hathcock II''' (1942–99) var en [[USA|amerikansk]] soldat i [[U.S. Marine Corps]] som gjorde tjeneste som [[skarpskytter]] under [[Vietnamkrigen]]. Han uskadeliggjorde 93 soldater fra [[Vietnams folkehær|Den nordvietnamesiske hær]] og [[Front national de liberté|Viet Cong]], som kalte ham ''Lông Trắng'' («Den hvite fjær») fordi han bar en hvit fjær på sin [[patruljehatt]].<ref>{{harvnb|Dockery|2007|p=148}} "Hathcock had taken to wearing a small white feather in his boonie hat. It was just stuck in the brim ...the Viet Cong came to know the sniper as Long Tr'ang, 'the White Feather'."</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Dougherty |first=Martin J. |title=Sniper: SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Sniping skills from the world's elite forces |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j1Dm6EnU7mkC&pg=PT40 |publisher=Amber Books Ltd |isbn=978-1-909160-38-5 |page=40 |quote=Carlos Hathcock (1942–99) Nicknamed the 'White Feather' for the feather he wore in his hatband, Carlos Hathcock is perhaps the most influential sniper of all time.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cawthorne |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel Cawthorne |title=Confirmed Kill: Heroic Sniper Stories from the Jungles of Vietnam to the Mountains of Afghanistan |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9qR81lFUJcC&pg=PA19 |date=desember 2011 |publisher=Ulysses Press |isbn=978-1-61243-023-2 |page=19 |chapter=The White Feather |quote=The Vietcong and the soldiers of the NVA called him Long Tr'ang—the "White Feather"—for the plume he stuck in his hat band.}}</ref>

Han forlot militæret i 1975 med grad av [[gunnery sergeant]].

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