TITLE:        The Best U.S. Sniper Ever 🪖
CHANNEL:      The Art Of War  (@theartofwarrr)
URL:          https://youtube.com/watch?v=NWSyJfKOLxQ
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PUBLISHED:    Jul 26, 2026
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A Marine sniper volunteered for a mission so dangerous he wasn't told what

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FULL SCRIPT:
A Marine sniper volunteered for a mission so dangerous he wasn't told what it was until he agreed to do it. You see, in 1966, Carlos Hathcock was given one objective: [music] to crawl through 1,500 yd of open enemy territory in Vietnam and assassinate a North Vietnamese general completely alone with an entire enemy camp between him and the target. For 4 days and 3 nights without food or sleep, he moved inch by inch through the jungle, a technique he called worming, so slowly that at one point an enemy patrol walked directly over him without seeing him, and [music] a snake slithered across his body without him moving a muscle. On the fourth day, he reached his position, and when the general stepped out of his encampment, [music] Hathcock put a single bullet through his heart from 700 yd away. He then spent 3 more days crawling back out with the entire enemy camp searching for him, but they never [music] found him.

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TIMED:
[000.00] A Marine sniper volunteered for a
[001.64] mission so dangerous he wasn't told what
[003.68] it was until he agreed to do it. You
[005.48] see, in 1966, Carlos Hathcock was given
[008.24] one objective: [music] to crawl through
[009.52] 1,500 yd of open enemy territory in
[012.36] Vietnam and assassinate a North
[014.08] Vietnamese general completely alone with
[016.08] an entire enemy camp between him and the
[017.96] target. For 4 days and 3 nights without
[020.20] food or sleep, he moved inch by inch
[022.04] through the jungle, a technique he
[023.32] called worming, so slowly that at one
[025.08] point an enemy patrol walked directly
[026.92] over him without seeing him, and [music]
[028.24] a snake slithered across his body
[030.00] without him moving a muscle. On the
[031.28] fourth day, he reached his position, and
[033.20] when the general stepped out of his
[034.56] encampment, [music] Hathcock put a
[035.84] single bullet through his heart from 700
[038.00] yd away. He then spent 3 more days
[040.00] crawling back out with the entire enemy
[041.88] camp searching for him, but they never
[043.23] [music] found him.
