Eugene Sockut - "Thunder from Rain"

Eugene Socket

Eugene Sockut is a former dentist from Connecticut, active in protecting Second Amendment rights. A former Captain in the United States Army, Eugene later moved to Israel and was assigned to the paratroopers in the Israeli Army in the rank of Major. There he served as the Chief of Marksmanship and Snipers; writing training manuals and implementing his original methods in the field. He is most proud of training a brigade of Israeli paratroopers single handedly during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 when M-16 rifles were emergency airlifted from the US in support of the Israeli Defense Force.

Mr. Sockut is a screenwriter, lecturer, newspaper columnist and author of the non-fiction book “Secrets of Street Survival: Israeli Style.” He now resides in the Judean Hills outside Jerusalem, Israel with his wife, three children and ten grandchildren.