I need a mentor so I can be prepared for sniper School


Terms are acceptable, I appreciate the vote of confidence.

Never been on probation, but once found myself playing “pro-bottom” in a pick-up basketball game. By the time I figured out that wasn’t a basketball position and we weren’t really playing basketball — it was too late.
 


Hey man, good luck in your endeavors. Before you head down to your nearest recruiter's office, I recommend giving a REAL good listen to the audiobook of Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein. It will put you in the mindset of the new life you will be entering. It is not cakewalk. It will be tough and challenging, and you will be disassembled and remade into a new person, complete with the skills that you already have and more, and most importantly, be a TEAM PLAYER. Maybe 6 years from now, you will revisit this old thread, bump it back up to the mainpage, and have a great old time looking back and laughing along.

If you got the heart and right mind for it, GOOD LUCK once again. We may be ribbing the heck out of you here but we will also be rooting for you to succeed.

ETA: A shoutout to all of our servicemembers, past, present, and future:

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JMHO

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Who is the Troll/OP ? This caint be real....
 
And then, when he thinks all is lost and that God hates him, read or listen to Heinlein's "Job: A Comedy of Justice."

God doesn't hate Man, He just has a running bet with Lucifer.
 
Yeah. I used to spray myself with cold water at 6am and run. Only thing that might break me is drown proofing. Im a strong swimmer tho. Swimming a piece of cake thanks to a super kind black US Army Iraq war combat veteran trained me to swim. (REST IN PEACE MR. ERICK FUCKING STILL GOT YOUR DOG TAGS). GOD BLESS.
 
No way. That is childs play with an iron sighted .308 for anybody 1000% ready for SOF-D and naturally gifted in all the modalities necessary for an assassin. I was thinking .223 at most. Possibly with a patched bullet to prevent tracing the projectile.
 
Wait, did you just say that a black guy taught you to swim?

This shit has gone too far.

My bullshit meter just exploded and injured my wife who was the width of a king sized bed away from me. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on some of this bullshit, but c'mon man, you went too far.
 
Yeah, I didn't really want to start this arguement with a crowd of people who never had a security clearance, but they wouldn't have any idea if you are an alcoholic, unless maybe you had several dui's. Even at TS+, they aren't asking you any real questions about alcohol consumption. I got my TS without ever even knowing the investigation had happened..
 
Respect, I deserve that. I was stationed In Wildflecken Germany . We went out on 6 and 7 day field trips with no heat in freezing temperatures . I can assist you there.
 
Depends on "sneak up" definition and how close we talking. Other animals like deer I'm clinically mentally handicapped when trying to figure em out. Cause deer aren't predators and I think how the coyote thinks. 90% of coyote hunting is being in the right place ESPECIALLY at the right time, other 10% is luck. Many times when I tried to hunt Coyo's specifically I would get skunked 999/1000 times. but then again they always will be the grey ghosts. I'm not saying I'm on their ass and can sniff em out like Diddy hunting for Walgreens baby oil. Yeah they fucking make me feel so stupid. SOB coyotes and jackals are like Fighting, everyone confident until they get punched in the mouth and get humbled. I just have a knack for those little shit heads. Idk maybe I just think on their wavelength. I've met trappers who can figure out certain animals but not others. You never really figure it out, it's endless trial and error.
 
I misjudged you. A man that thinks like a coyote is a dangerous man.

But don't coyotes hunt deer?

Why don't you hunt deer while thinking like a coyote? Run up and get a mouthful of hamstring. But honestly, with the ability to hit them at 800m with irons, you probably don't need to figure them out too well, you just need to see them.
 
A lot of our skills get shaped in childhood and my neighbors would say "hear the coyotes howling in the distance in the woods, it's time to get inside", but I was so incredibly fascinated and impressed by the very cool sounding howling I just had to see one of those fuckers. Once you tell a boy not to do something he's gonna do it. It became a mission and like an unhealthy autistic level obsession. also the region I grew up when I got older had; I swear to Jesus, on my life, more coyotes than anywhere I've ever seen when I look back on it and have more life experience. So it's a numbers game in terms of my success in learning their behaviour not so much as far as skill goes. But nah I put so much effort into seeing one of those amazing howling forrest dog like creatures that it became an unhealthy obsession. Man to this day those howls of relatively HUGE packs of coyotes were some of the most exhilarating and awesome things ever, better than whacking it. Looking back as an adult I realized, in that area nobody hunted them don't ask me why. Oh yeah it's cause it was near houses and shit and discharging a firearm near a dwelling yadda yadda yadda.You could hear them in packs just howling and howling and howling. Still my favorite sound ever.