This presentation of In Their Own Words is brought to you by the Honor Project and is dedicated to the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Military snipers were trained sharpshooters assigned to kill a man with one perfect shot.

These highly disciplined marksmen often stalked to target for days, waiting for just the right moment to squeeze the trigger.

Lurking in the shadows alone, the deadly stealth of the sniper made him the most feared man

on the battlefield.

As a young hunter, Chuck Mowinney grew up with a gun in his hand.

In October 1967, Mowenny was just 19 years old when he made his first kill as a scout sniper in Vietnam.

I was born and raised in a small town, southeast Oregon, called Lakeview.

Raised on a small ranch, my dad had about a 30-acre ranch.

And I spent a lot of time I started shooting at the age of about six years old with my father.

Spent a lot of time hunting, a lot of time up in the mountains.

Actually when I joined the Marine Corps, after high school I joined on the delay program.

And I joined immediately on graduation, but I delayed until October 18th to go in because I didn't want to miss deer season that year.

So we did a lot of hunting. You know we were pretty serious about that.

Now had I known what kind of a hunting trip I was going on, I might not have delayed for the three months.

But Chuck Moeni knew that he was going to Vietnam as soon as he joined the army.

Boot camp for me was, I was pretty much conditioned for what was going to be in boot camp.

I pretty much had an idea what was going to happen. I had friends that had gone in before me

that explained what was happening. And it was all I expected it to be. It was a good conditioning program. It was good training. They were also working hard on the Vietnam

conflict that was going on. So there was a lot of that added into our basic training.

What did they do? In what way related to Vietnam?

Just a lot of discussion about it or what?

Yeah, and they would explain some of the training, some of the techniques, the reason

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