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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shark0311</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><---PIG </div></div>
good enough for government work
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shark0311</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><---PIG </div></div>
good enough for government work
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Kraig,
You were the vicitm of a counter sniper, thank God you and the wife survived the encounter.
Kraig,
You were the vicitm of a counter sniper, thank God you and the wife survived the encounter.
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Went to a two week course in Benning before being deployed to the first Gulf war, was in a Mech unit. Finished out my career back where I started at Fort Benning, was with the 29th Infantry Regiment and we were responsible for running a lot of the Ranges back then.. But as far as being a School certified SNIPER no
Went to a two week course in Benning before being deployed to the first Gulf war, was in a Mech unit. Finished out my career back where I started at Fort Benning, was with the 29th Infantry Regiment and we were responsible for running a lot of the Ranges back then.. But as far as being a School certified SNIPER no
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Myself and one of the Bravo's on my first ODA went to SOTIC and were the teams snipers, although we weren't the only SOTIC graduates. We were the two who had the teams 2 M24's assigned to us and sighted in with our own dope.
Myself and one of the Bravo's on my first ODA went to SOTIC and were the teams snipers, although we weren't the only SOTIC graduates. We were the two who had the teams 2 M24's assigned to us and sighted in with our own dope.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: stacyp</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was awarded expert marksman ribbon at Air Force basic training using the M-16 .22 conversion, shooting at a simulated 500m target. For sure put me down on the list. </div></div>
That makes two of us. Though I didn't get a ribbon. Nice shooting.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: stacyp</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was awarded expert marksman ribbon at Air Force basic training using the M-16 .22 conversion, shooting at a simulated 500m target. For sure put me down on the list. </div></div>
That makes two of us. Though I didn't get a ribbon. Nice shooting.
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I'll add my name to the list of those who have employed an M24 in the military while in hide sites (or otherwise) for days at a time watching specific AO's for anti-coalition activity and the opportunity to engage targets, call up the QRF, or even air support if needed.
But I've never been to sniper school and would never call myself a sniper.
I'll add my name to the list of those who have employed an M24 in the military while in hide sites (or otherwise) for days at a time watching specific AO's for anti-coalition activity and the opportunity to engage targets, call up the QRF, or even air support if needed.
But I've never been to sniper school and would never call myself a sniper.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jake6547</div><div class="ubbcode-body">poor guy just trying to get a strait answer
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Here? Haaa
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jake6547</div><div class="ubbcode-body">poor guy just trying to get a strait answer
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Here? Haaa
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vinson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'll add my name to the list of those who have employed an M24 in the military while in hide sites (or otherwise) for days at a time watching specific AO's for anti-coalition activity and the opportunity to engage targets, call up the QRF, or even air support if needed.
But I've never been to sniper school and would never call myself a sniper. </div></div>
That counts as tactical sniper activity. You were a sniper in those situations. In fact, you filled the role of a marksman, forward observer, and ROMAD. There are more people in the military that filled this role than most people realize. But the OP was for people that have the official designation. There are or rather were not enough slots so they utilize other people to fill the same role. There are also the designated marksmen to think about as well. All branches of service have these sort of rifle men and women too. These are just a few reasons this particular forum is so successful. It truly is a community of marksmen at all levels; military, law enforcement, and civilian marksmanship.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
--George Washington
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vinson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'll add my name to the list of those who have employed an M24 in the military while in hide sites (or otherwise) for days at a time watching specific AO's for anti-coalition activity and the opportunity to engage targets, call up the QRF, or even air support if needed.
But I've never been to sniper school and would never call myself a sniper. </div></div>
That counts as tactical sniper activity. You were a sniper in those situations. In fact, you filled the role of a marksman, forward observer, and ROMAD. There are more people in the military that filled this role than most people realize. But the OP was for people that have the official designation. There are or rather were not enough slots so they utilize other people to fill the same role. There are also the designated marksmen to think about as well. All branches of service have these sort of rifle men and women too. These are just a few reasons this particular forum is so successful. It truly is a community of marksmen at all levels; military, law enforcement, and civilian marksmanship.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
--George Washington
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Not me.
Shot third best in my basic training company and I'd never picked up anything more than a muzzle loader or a .22 as a kid. The drill sergeants strongly urged me to go into the field, I was thinking of going into intel, went medical instead. In some alternate universe I went infantry/SF/sniper training.
I just like to shoot far.
Not me.
Shot third best in my basic training company and I'd never picked up anything more than a muzzle loader or a .22 as a kid. The drill sergeants strongly urged me to go into the field, I was thinking of going into intel, went medical instead. In some alternate universe I went infantry/SF/sniper training.
I just like to shoot far.
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The verb "to snipe" originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper".[2] The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter".[2]
During the American Civil War, the common term used in the United States was "sharpshooter", which is a reference to and a tribute to the Sharps rifles that were commonly used by Civil War "snipers", but the term "sharpshooter" does not originate with users of the Sharp's Rifle. The rifle was designed by Christian Sharps and made from 1850 onwards by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. They were renowned for long range and accuracy, and they were issued only to the best shooters. However, the term "sharp shooter" had been in use in British newspapers as early as 1801. In the Edinburgh Advertiser, 23 June 1801, can be found the following quote in a piece about the North British Militia; "This Regiment has several Field Pieces, and two companies of Sharp Shooters, which are very necessary in the modern Stile of War". The term appears even earlier, around 1781, in Europe.
Another common term used in the United States during the American Civil War was "skirmisher". Throughout history armies have used skirmishers to break up enemy formations and to thwart the enemy from flanking the main body of their attack force.[3] They were deployed individually on the extremes of the moving army primarily to scout for the possibility of an enemy ambush. Consequently, a "skirmish" denotes a clash of small scope between these forces.[4] In general, a skirmish was a limited combat, involving troops other than those of the main body.[3] The term "sniper" was not in widespread use in the United States until after the American Civil War.
The verb "to snipe" originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper".[2] The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter".[2]
During the American Civil War, the common term used in the United States was "sharpshooter", which is a reference to and a tribute to the Sharps rifles that were commonly used by Civil War "snipers", but the term "sharpshooter" does not originate with users of the Sharp's Rifle. The rifle was designed by Christian Sharps and made from 1850 onwards by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. They were renowned for long range and accuracy, and they were issued only to the best shooters. However, the term "sharp shooter" had been in use in British newspapers as early as 1801. In the Edinburgh Advertiser, 23 June 1801, can be found the following quote in a piece about the North British Militia; "This Regiment has several Field Pieces, and two companies of Sharp Shooters, which are very necessary in the modern Stile of War". The term appears even earlier, around 1781, in Europe.
Another common term used in the United States during the American Civil War was "skirmisher". Throughout history armies have used skirmishers to break up enemy formations and to thwart the enemy from flanking the main body of their attack force.[3] They were deployed individually on the extremes of the moving army primarily to scout for the possibility of an enemy ambush. Consequently, a "skirmish" denotes a clash of small scope between these forces.[4] In general, a skirmish was a limited combat, involving troops other than those of the main body.[3] The term "sniper" was not in widespread use in the United States until after the American Civil War.
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Police sniper/LE sniper instructor/military firearms instructor
Police sniper/LE sniper instructor/military firearms instructor
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3, oh wait, maybe 4...
Are we talking real snipers or like Call of Duty because if we count that the number goes to 17.
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LMAO
I cut off testicles for a living...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3, oh wait, maybe 4...
Are we talking real snipers or like Call of Duty because if we count that the number goes to 17.
</div></div>
LMAO
I cut off testicles for a living...
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I've seen Mac on future weapons... That's gotta count for sure...
JJ
I've seen Mac on future weapons... That's gotta count for sure...
JJ
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kraigWY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OK I have a real "sniper story" a real "war story"
Back in the 70s I was heavy into duck and goose hunting on the Palmer Hay Fats near Anchorage.
There were a lot of "snipe" there, I mean a lot, I figured why not, I'll get a few, using my Remington 870 I got a pot full. I got them home and my wife was going to fix them up for freezing. If you ever ate "snipe", they are like dove, you just pop the breat out with your thumbs, that's all there is to eat on those little suckers and it takes quite a few to make a meal.
Anyway I had them setting on the cabinet with a lid on the pot to keep wife's cats out.
So the wife gets all ready to fix the and removes the lid. One of the little suckes popped his head up "chirp, chirp"............aparently he wasn't quite "sniped" all the way.
Wife lets out a scream, and I sleep on the couch that night.
Sniping is a very dangerous business. </div></div>
Now that's some funny shit right there !
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kraigWY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OK I have a real "sniper story" a real "war story"
Back in the 70s I was heavy into duck and goose hunting on the Palmer Hay Fats near Anchorage.
There were a lot of "snipe" there, I mean a lot, I figured why not, I'll get a few, using my Remington 870 I got a pot full. I got them home and my wife was going to fix them up for freezing. If you ever ate "snipe", they are like dove, you just pop the breat out with your thumbs, that's all there is to eat on those little suckers and it takes quite a few to make a meal.
Anyway I had them setting on the cabinet with a lid on the pot to keep wife's cats out.
So the wife gets all ready to fix the and removes the lid. One of the little suckes popped his head up "chirp, chirp"............aparently he wasn't quite "sniped" all the way.
Wife lets out a scream, and I sleep on the couch that night.
Sniping is a very dangerous business. </div></div>
Now that's some funny shit right there !
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Not a sniper, Mechanical Engineer here.
Hats off to all of you guys who have served and/or who are snipers (both)
I did try to go through processing here in Atlanta back during the Clinton days. Failed the physical, had surgery on both feet two years later.
Not a sniper, Mechanical Engineer here.
Hats off to all of you guys who have served and/or who are snipers (both)
I did try to go through processing here in Atlanta back during the Clinton days. Failed the physical, had surgery on both feet two years later.
Re: How Many SH Members are/were Snipers
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: redroan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3, oh wait, maybe 4...
Are we talking real snipers or like Call of Duty because if we count that the number goes to 17.
</div></div>
LMAO
I cut off testicles for a living... </div></div>
On the farm we called that "performing brain surgery".
In two swoops of a blade we'd turn that bull's mind from ass to grass.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: redroan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3, oh wait, maybe 4...
Are we talking real snipers or like Call of Duty because if we count that the number goes to 17.
</div></div>
LMAO
I cut off testicles for a living... </div></div>
On the farm we called that "performing brain surgery".
In two swoops of a blade we'd turn that bull's mind from ass to grass.
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I did a little sniping before when somebody put the piston in backwards on my m60.
I did a little sniping before when somebody put the piston in backwards on my m60.
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When I was a kid, the Army shooting team plucked me right out of ROTC. I took silver in the Olympics. After my discharge the NSC assigned me to a DC SWAT team. I didn't speak Spanish or been in a jungle when the NSC sent me to Panama to hunt down a Columbian drug lord named Raul Ochoa who was financing the rebels down there. I teamed up with a bat-shit crazy guy who only had the killing, and through my love and attention, I got him back to the real world... with a missing finger. He ended up as a Navy MA escorting this hot blond around the eastern seaboard.
Oh man those were the days!
When I was a kid, the Army shooting team plucked me right out of ROTC. I took silver in the Olympics. After my discharge the NSC assigned me to a DC SWAT team. I didn't speak Spanish or been in a jungle when the NSC sent me to Panama to hunt down a Columbian drug lord named Raul Ochoa who was financing the rebels down there. I teamed up with a bat-shit crazy guy who only had the killing, and through my love and attention, I got him back to the real world... with a missing finger. He ended up as a Navy MA escorting this hot blond around the eastern seaboard.
Oh man those were the days!
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I don't know about you long range COD " snipers " but I used to rock the shit outta some sneakin/ CQB in Goldeneye.... At least till the other guy cheated and looked at my screen......damnit..
I don't know about you long range COD " snipers " but I used to rock the shit outta some sneakin/ CQB in Goldeneye.... At least till the other guy cheated and looked at my screen......damnit..
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Nope, total civilian. Just a marksman. But out shoot the military trained dudes all the time.
Nope, total civilian. Just a marksman. But out shoot the military trained dudes all the time.
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Someone please explain to me what a Sniper is, Does, an What set of rules apply first before they can be Given or Hold the Title, of?
If they are all that, how is it, they can/have been stalked an tagged by none Snipers?
Much like Any/Every graduating class of whatever, 50% are in the bottom half, an 50% are in the top half. Do not let a word an perception, get you tagged.
On a two way if you think shooting is the package, keep thinking that, an be the A/O bullet trap.
He who spots first, normally lives to suck the suck another day.
YMMV
Someone please explain to me what a Sniper is, Does, an What set of rules apply first before they can be Given or Hold the Title, of?
If they are all that, how is it, they can/have been stalked an tagged by none Snipers?
Much like Any/Every graduating class of whatever, 50% are in the bottom half, an 50% are in the top half. Do not let a word an perception, get you tagged.
On a two way if you think shooting is the package, keep thinking that, an be the A/O bullet trap.
He who spots first, normally lives to suck the suck another day.
YMMV
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Corprin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When I was a kid, the Army shooting team plucked me right out of ROTC. I took silver in the Olympics. After my discharge the NSC assigned me to a DC SWAT team. I didn't speak Spanish or been in a jungle when the NSC sent me to Panama to hunt down a Columbian drug lord named Raul Ochoa who was financing the rebels down there. I teamed up with a bat-shit crazy guy who only had the killing, and through my love and attention, I got him back to the real world... with a missing finger. He ended up as a Navy MA escorting this hot blond around the eastern seaboard.
Oh man those were the days! </div></div>
Too funny
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Corprin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When I was a kid, the Army shooting team plucked me right out of ROTC. I took silver in the Olympics. After my discharge the NSC assigned me to a DC SWAT team. I didn't speak Spanish or been in a jungle when the NSC sent me to Panama to hunt down a Columbian drug lord named Raul Ochoa who was financing the rebels down there. I teamed up with a bat-shit crazy guy who only had the killing, and through my love and attention, I got him back to the real world... with a missing finger. He ended up as a Navy MA escorting this hot blond around the eastern seaboard.
Oh man those were the days! </div></div>
Too funny
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It's easy to tell the former snipers here, we've made their names red.
It's easy to tell the former snipers here, we've made their names red.
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Sorry--Ft.Bliss Highpower Team, 1961-2, got to do Standby once when a plane hijacker landed at El Paso airport, then the FBI took out the planes tires with Thompsons. Foreign combat? Bar fight in Juarez, we lost....but the only casualty was an obnoxious MP, so nobody cared.
Sorry--Ft.Bliss Highpower Team, 1961-2, got to do Standby once when a plane hijacker landed at El Paso airport, then the FBI took out the planes tires with Thompsons. Foreign combat? Bar fight in Juarez, we lost....but the only casualty was an obnoxious MP, so nobody cared.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jasonk</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's easy to tell the former snipers here, we've made their names red. </div></div>
Some of us must be in defilade then
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jasonk</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's easy to tell the former snipers here, we've made their names red. </div></div>
Some of us must be in defilade then
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whatever your defination is of a sniper.... Consider me the exact opposite.
whatever your defination is of a sniper.... Consider me the exact opposite.
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I am not, nor have I ever been military. I tried twice. Twice they turned me down for health reasons. I like to hunt and shoot. That's about the best I can do. Now I'm about too old and broke down for anything much.
I am not, nor have I ever been military. I tried twice. Twice they turned me down for health reasons. I like to hunt and shoot. That's about the best I can do. Now I'm about too old and broke down for anything much.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chiller</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Corprin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When I was a kid, the Army shooting team plucked me right out of ROTC. I took silver in the Olympics. After my discharge the NSC assigned me to a DC SWAT team. I didn't speak Spanish or been in a jungle when the NSC sent me to Panama to hunt down a Columbian drug lord named Raul Ochoa who was financing the rebels down there. I teamed up with a bat-shit crazy guy who only had the killing, and through my love and attention, I got him back to the real world... with a missing finger. He ended up as a Navy MA escorting this hot blond around the eastern seaboard.
Oh man those were the days! </div></div>
Too funny </div></div>
Great one Corprin! Man that is hilarious!! On a side note, that douche VJJ loves to reference the fleshlight. He needs new material
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chiller</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Corprin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">When I was a kid, the Army shooting team plucked me right out of ROTC. I took silver in the Olympics. After my discharge the NSC assigned me to a DC SWAT team. I didn't speak Spanish or been in a jungle when the NSC sent me to Panama to hunt down a Columbian drug lord named Raul Ochoa who was financing the rebels down there. I teamed up with a bat-shit crazy guy who only had the killing, and through my love and attention, I got him back to the real world... with a missing finger. He ended up as a Navy MA escorting this hot blond around the eastern seaboard.
Oh man those were the days! </div></div>
Too funny </div></div>
Great one Corprin! Man that is hilarious!! On a side note, that douche VJJ loves to reference the fleshlight. He needs new material
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Various recruitment efforts from the USMC have kept me out of the FMF, and on special duty in our capitol. I had intended to at least pass through DM school when I enlisted. 35 months later it is not likely that I will.
I do, however, look damn good in blue/whites.
Various recruitment efforts from the USMC have kept me out of the FMF, and on special duty in our capitol. I had intended to at least pass through DM school when I enlisted. 35 months later it is not likely that I will.
I do, however, look damn good in blue/whites.
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I wanted to be a sniper when I enlisted in the Army in 2001. It took almost 8 years to get an opportunity. For a long time I was slotted in a line company that didn't have positions. The battalion reorganized in 2007 and that gave me an opportunity to get slotted in a company with a sniper section. We then had interviews and had an indoc where soldiers competed (rifle quals, land nav, PT, and background experience was vetted). My brother and I were selected to attend sniper school with 2 other soldiers from our unit in the first wave, and my brother and I passed with 13 of 33 soldiers in our class, the other two soldiers we brought failed out.
It was a great opportunity, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I wanted to be a sniper when I enlisted in the Army in 2001. It took almost 8 years to get an opportunity. For a long time I was slotted in a line company that didn't have positions. The battalion reorganized in 2007 and that gave me an opportunity to get slotted in a company with a sniper section. We then had interviews and had an indoc where soldiers competed (rifle quals, land nav, PT, and background experience was vetted). My brother and I were selected to attend sniper school with 2 other soldiers from our unit in the first wave, and my brother and I passed with 13 of 33 soldiers in our class, the other two soldiers we brought failed out.
It was a great opportunity, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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1/160th Inf(mech) C co "Comanches"
I was a Golfer (sniper) there from 1998 to 2002.
1/160th Inf(mech) C co "Comanches"
I was a Golfer (sniper) there from 1998 to 2002.
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<<<< ---- I got my "green man" at Quantico while with 1/2, S.T.A. We had a bunch of mote T-shirts made up with a Unertl reticle and "Enough Said" underneath, hence, my handle.
I SENT Lowlight to Sniper School, so I want all credit for everything he's done good since then! ;-]]
Taught at 2nd Mar. Div. Sniper School in '88 and '89.
Lowlight and I were REALLY close for 6 months one time. He slept about a foot above me for a float to the Persian Gulf and back. I could tell you stories you wouldn't believe. But he'd ban me... so I won't. LOL
Not long after that, my life fell apart and now I live in Alaska. Bummer... ;-]]
<<<< ---- I got my "green man" at Quantico while with 1/2, S.T.A. We had a bunch of mote T-shirts made up with a Unertl reticle and "Enough Said" underneath, hence, my handle.
I SENT Lowlight to Sniper School, so I want all credit for everything he's done good since then! ;-]]
Taught at 2nd Mar. Div. Sniper School in '88 and '89.
Lowlight and I were REALLY close for 6 months one time. He slept about a foot above me for a float to the Persian Gulf and back. I could tell you stories you wouldn't believe. But he'd ban me... so I won't. LOL
Not long after that, my life fell apart and now I live in Alaska. Bummer... ;-]]
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hi Speed</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Out of curiosity I wonder how many of us are/were snipers?
Could we do a Poll? </div></div>
I've used scissors before.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hi Speed</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Out of curiosity I wonder how many of us are/were snipers?
Could we do a Poll? </div></div>
I've used scissors before.
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I once read something a guy said. "There were 345 snipers sent to Vietnam and I've met all 8,000 of them." Having spent two tours in Vietnam, I'm pretty sure that I have met another several thousand of them.
I once read something a guy said. "There were 345 snipers sent to Vietnam and I've met all 8,000 of them." Having spent two tours in Vietnam, I'm pretty sure that I have met another several thousand of them.
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Former army SDM and SDM instructor at Ft. Lewis; it was kind of pilot program I guess. I volunteered to teach the Ft. Benning course, but I guess they had more highspeed dickheads by 07 or so when I found out about it; they never called me. Many of the other instructors were snipers there, and at least three I know made it to the Ft. Benning Comp., with the head instructor last year or the year before in fact, so it wasn't exactly stocked with douchebags.
The SDM course was a four week shooting course focusing on the M4 at the time (02-04?) and was the best time I had in the army. The NM component of it made me a much better shooter, period. It was where I got introduced to that kind of shooting.
Sniper school is more fieldcraft and less shooting. SDM school is, or was, nearly all shooting. They are very different, but can interchange roles to some degree.
Former army SDM and SDM instructor at Ft. Lewis; it was kind of pilot program I guess. I volunteered to teach the Ft. Benning course, but I guess they had more highspeed dickheads by 07 or so when I found out about it; they never called me. Many of the other instructors were snipers there, and at least three I know made it to the Ft. Benning Comp., with the head instructor last year or the year before in fact, so it wasn't exactly stocked with douchebags.
The SDM course was a four week shooting course focusing on the M4 at the time (02-04?) and was the best time I had in the army. The NM component of it made me a much better shooter, period. It was where I got introduced to that kind of shooting.
Sniper school is more fieldcraft and less shooting. SDM school is, or was, nearly all shooting. They are very different, but can interchange roles to some degree.
