The One-Round War: USMC Scout-Snipers in Vietnam - Paladin Press

SNIPER PLATOONThe “Rockpile,” a 700-foot-high hill described officially as “a cork to the valleys leading down from North Vietnam from thenorth and west” (major North Vietnamese Army infiltration routes). “Mutter’s Ridge” is at the right, the “Razor Back” on theleft. As Don L. Smith related, “An OP could look across the DMZ directly into North Vietnam from The Rockpile.” Thephotograph was taken “looking north” from the battalion command post (1967). (Don L. Smith.)Marine Sgt. Bjorn A.G. Dahlin, from Sweden, a squadleader with Third Marines Scout-Sniper Platoon at TheRockpile, 1967. The “Swede,” as Dahlin was known, hadserved with an elite Swedish commando unit in Africaand Cyprus with United Nations Emergency Forcesbefore enlisting in the Marine Corps. (Don L. Smith.)117