Ask any Marine about the service’s greatest snipers, and a flurry of references to the legendary Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock are sure to flood the conversation. Yet it was another sniper, Charles ...

The Marine Corps celebrated the history of the M40 sniper rifle with Redfield scope at Camp Lejeune. The M40 rifle was the same type of weapon used by Marine sniper Sgt. Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney.

Gary Jenkins had a feeling his score on the range might come back to haunt him. He was right. Even 50 years later, he still remembers the sound of explosions going off around him like it was yesterday ...

"The Sniper" includes many color photographs of Chuck Mawhinney during his service as a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam, 1967-69. For more than a quarter century, Chuck Mawhinney’s unprecedented record ...

<p>Ed Kugler in his home in Big Arm on Tuesday, October 25. Kugler was a Marine Corps sniper during the Vietnam War. He is the author of Dead Center and other books. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter ...

Sgt. Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, who recorded 103 confirmed kills and 216 probable kills with M40 sniper rifle and Redfield 3x9x40 scope while serving in the Vietnam War. (Sgt. Charles “Chuck” ...

"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 ...

Army Sgt. Clinton Scanlon is congratulated by a fellow classmate after he graduated the scout sniper course at Camp Geiger on Marine Corps Air Station New River, April 13. The graduating class of 1-18 ...

The Marine Corps is rolling out an array of new weaponry in the near future. One important piece of that is the Corps' new sniper rifle, which replaces a rifle that's been in use since the mid-1960s.