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TIL that Carlos Hathcock, USMC in Vietnam, crawled inch by inch, 1500 yards for 72hours straight to assassinate an NVA General, narrowly escaping being bitten by a viper, and almost being stepped on by a NVA soldier. He successfully completed the mission, and escaped the same way he had entered.

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