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2004-11-30 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Bernie 2004-11-30 17:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Man!!! What a group of shots! The farthest shot I ever did was at a caribou at 500 yds with a Leupold Vari-x II 3x9 and a Ruger M77 with a 7mm Remington mag. 950 yds....now that is reaching out and touching someone. Hats off to Sgt. Sandoval!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-30 6:32:22 PM|| 2004-11-30 6:32:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Carlos Hathcock would be proud... NOT someone to cross scopes with, heh.

Y'know, this is a great story, poorly written. The site needs some professional assistance - and I'm not talking about spin, I'm talking about composition. It stuck in my craw a bit because I wanted to know the guy's story - and knew it was buried in that linear litany somewhere. Sorry, but I just had to say it, heh.

Posted by .com 2004-11-30 6:50:14 PM|| 2004-11-30 6:50:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 You're right .com. This would be a wonderful story for Ernie Pyle to write, or David Douglas Duncan to photograph, but those types of journalists have all become part of the enemy bandwagon in today's mainstream media. Now if Sarge had missed and killed a baby duck, then the NYT and all the rest would have been writing thousands of words per minute.

Posted by Sgt.D.T. 2004-11-30 7:16:06 PM|| 2004-11-30 7:16:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 .com, you have an English degree... now that you are "retired," as you say, perhaps you can find the time to write up the story properly? ;-D

Posted by trailing wife 2004-11-30 10:05:31 PM|| 2004-11-30 10:05:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I dunno, Sgt. D.T. Shooting a baby duck at 950 yds would STILL be a major "feather in one's cap."
**I couldn't help it.....**

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-30 10:07:56 PM|| 2004-11-30 10:07:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 My comment on the writing is that we have the guy's name and home town.
We know that Dutch Muslims have been sending death threats to the families of Dutch soldiers serving in Iraq.
Back as far as the Balkan operations, actually naming guys was avoided, even when doing a human interest story, particularly when it was a Guardsman or Reservist whose family didn't live in military housing, on a base.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2004-11-30 10:36:22 PM|| 2004-11-30 10:36:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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