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...squad of ten can control several hundred people." When should a policeman shoot to kill? Reddin is notably evasive, refusing even to outline a situation when he himself would fire his revolver. Ultimately in Los Angeles, the decision is left up to the individual cop. Two hundred marksmen have been assigned to a squad named S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics), designed to pick off snipers and to eliminate, presumably, the need for indiscriminate police gunfire, which took innocent victims in Newark and Detroit last year. On the target range they can hit the head of a man's silhouette...
...part, the Army received a supply of well-trained marksmen. In 1965, the Arthur D. Little Co. found that previous marksmanship training--such as that given by NRA clubs--aided the rifle scores of Army draftees. The American Rifleman, the NRA's magazine, regularly publishes an "honor roll" of NRA members who receive medals in Vietnam. As of March, they had two Medals of Honor, eight silver stars, nine bronze stars, one Navy Cross and one Distinguished Flying Cross on the roll...
...Connally's wounds were not caused by the same shot that struck Kennedy in the throat, there must have been two marksmen, since two shots could not have been aimed and fired so quickly from the bolt-action rifle which Oswald used...
Suddenly the Viet Cong ceased firing. In the abrupt hush, bugles sounded, and the Communists charged. It was their first mistake, for it gave the U.S. marksmen their first clear targets and they mowed down wave after wave of the attackers. "The right squad alone was knocking 'em down 30 at a time," recounted the company commander. Four hours later, the Americans, now grown to two badly mauled companies, set up a defensive perimeter atop a hill-enough to hold off the far bigger V.C. force until artillery and tactical-air support could move in. At last the Viet...
...were a notably peaceful tribe until provoked into rebellion by avaricious and cruel whites. He also paints the romanticized Indian-fighting army of the Old West as a shiftless and uninspired collection of sad sacks. In any pitched battle, Josephy maintains, Indians proved to be better fighters and better marksmen than U.S. troops or volunteers...