Carlos Hathcock

The confirmed-kill statistics tend to dominate any account of Carlos Hathcock, but the numbers are the least interesting thing about him to me. What I keep returning to is the psychology required to do that job: a stillness and discipline most people will never have to summon. His Purple Heart and Silver Star read, to me, less as marksmanship trophies than as evidence of a man who put himself between danger and his fellow Marines. He died at fifty-six, far too soon. I prefer to remember him not as a legend but as one disciplined, dutiful man carrying an enormous weight.

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Name (English)

Carlos Hathcock

Name (Japanese)

カルロス・ハスコック

Reading

かるろす・はすこっく

Born

May 20, 1942 – February 22, 1999

Origin

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Occupation

soldier / sniper

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

Awards & achievements

• Purple Heart
• Silver Star

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Hathcock
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714586

Tags

• Arkansas
• soldier
• sniper

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.