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

[akmike47]

You're smoking weed right now, aren't you?

No, who do I look like maggot?

 

[TheBigCountry]

David here: I just want to say to you all that I usually don't think very highly of myself. My entire life I thought I was a mistake and a failure. I guess my life would be best described as a struggle. My girlfriend passed away from natural causes, near death experiences myself, my best friend died on a motorcycle, never met my father, lost everyone I cared about except for my mother and have been alone ever since. etc etc not here for sympathy or trauma dumping. I truly failed everything I tried. I sucked at basketball, math, reading, basically everything. To cope with my lack of academic achievement I would just resort to playing in the woods, because I could teach other kids about various animals and insects I would find. I had finally felt like I had value. I would dedicate countless hours and hours to the "conventional" activities school provided. So many tears were shed. I usually came in last place in anything related to k-12 except triggernometry (sexy inverse secant f(x), Vectors and those "special" angles amirite?)and always had to work much harder than other students. I recently (a few months ago) had a father figure (ex Baltimore fire captain over 20+ yrs service) in my life tell me that I need to stop being so hard on myself and that the negative self talk is stopping me from being great at whatever I plan on doing. He told me to write down on a piece of paper my Skills, talents, and passions and give myself credit because I tell him all the time that I don't think I can do it (join special forces). He said that I need to start thinking highly of myself because if I get discouraged by the daily grind I will never make it through, that positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative self talk. So after long considerate thought, I realized that being a SF sniper is my life's calling. So I said fuck it, I'm going to think highly of myself because if you shoot for the sun you'll hit the moon in the process but if you shoot only for the moon you'll never reach past your highest expectations of yourself.

Fucking Flips is back

 

[Heretic]

1. You are fat. So lose 25 lbs.
B. You are mentally weak if you smoke weed to cope with kitchen work. Stick around here for a bit and learn to take some shit
IV. Disappointed? Fuck some ugly fat chicks before closing time.
#. Deer Sniper is your guy for mentorship.

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For the fucking WIN!

 

[Hecouldgoalltheway]

Is that you Charlie, can I have an autograph?

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I'll mushroom stamp the item of your choice and mail it back to you. It's the least I can do.

 

[Rthur]

Solid work here:

R

 

[Darryle]

I'm not butt hurt. Just disappointed.

OK, now I am almost positive we are being trolled, possibly

 

[kl3309]

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No, who do I look like maggot?

Whoa, you know the rules, no spitting!

 

[akmike47]

I'll mushroom stamp the item of your choice and mail it back to you. It's the least I can do.

Gonna need one of these to see it.

 

[cas6969]

if you shoot for the sun you'll hit the moon

That’s just bad shooting.

 

[david.stad14]

You're smoking weed right now, aren't you?

Been sober over a month. I smoke weed once a week and I never drink.

 

[Bender]

My name is David S. (22). Born in 02. Grew up in an orphanage in a foreign country. Currently reside in Bradenton Florida. American citizen. 5'11, 180 lbs @a real solid 15%BF. 3.5 college gpa with some of the hardest classes they offer. 90++ credit hours. don't drink at all but I do use vapes and weed because of high stress construction and kitchen jobs. I have been training by myself for over a decade for a career in the special forces. At age 8 I would stalk the coyotes in the woods undetected and have no fear response(mom does not know about my adventures, she would kill me if she found out). I'm naturally a stalker and observant type. My eyes are quite gifted. I have purposely isolated myself while training to mimick real combat situations and not have my mentality break (not talking to other humans for extended time) etc. Staying up for days on end in the woods in the night tracking animals without being detected, knot tying, map and compass etc etc etc.

I have been lifting weights HARD and running HARD since I was 15 years old. DL 275*10. SQUAT 275*10. BENCH 185*6. My best lifts @ age 19. I stopped lifting as much and focused on running/ being uncomfortable and being able to withstand going for days without food (really f***ing HARD). I have wrestling experience/ and some hand to hand combat experience. My physical and mental shape is not in question. I was born to be an assassin. Tier 1 delta level physical conditioning and metal fortitude. It's hard for me to quit because where I grew up so many people died before age 25 as well as my own personal near death experiences and it fuels the inferno within me. The only issue is that I need a mentor and coach that was/ is a sniper in the military or police force. I am naturally gifted for almost all the necessary skills a sniper would need. I took college math very seriously. I have blue eyes and many people comment on my gift for night vision.

With the marine corps doing away with the scout snipers, what branch should I join? Army? Rangers? GB? Seals? British SAS? I am 1000% capable of Delta. I have experienced numerous very serious life or death situations in the woods of NC, TN, and FL with no phone or contact and minimal medical supplies and have somehow been able to react quickly and apply my knowledge and come out on top when it mattered. I live and breathe this stuff. I plan on picking only one model sniper rifle/handgun combo and it being an extension of my body. sleeping with my rifle/trying to break it/ feeling all over the gun constantly with my eyes closed. I like pain and suffering in the name of standing for something I believe in.
Any advice for me guys? Sorry to ramble but I will 1000% be a tier 1 operator so your feedback I can share with my teammate's/ people I eventually train (I'll credit you guys). And I am so confident in my abilities that I don't expect to live past age 30.
GOD BLESS AMERICA. Love you fellow marksmen. Appreciate your experience, wisdom, and guidance. Feel free to comment on this because I will have my pen and paper ready.

Brother. Here is your first book.

Start here.

I’ll be back with more words of wisdom

 

[Threadcutter308]

Solid work here:
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I'm not sure which movie was worse. This one or that dumpster fire that Billy Zane was in. I dunno, maybe they're the same movie. Ahhh, that's Billy Zane on the left, isn't it ? So, same movie, only twice as bad as I thought.

 

[Threadcutter308]

Been sober over a month. I smoke weed once a week and I never drink.

Sounds like you drank 5 weeks ago......

Never the less, if you did quit drinking, stick with it.

 

[LuckyLuke80]

Been sober over a month. I smoke weed once a week and I never drink.

Makes as much sense as wiping before you poop.

 

[LeftyJason]

After that last post it’s a sure thing this thread will never reach legend status. Then again, maybe that will put it over the edge. Or else you’ll end up on every single “ignore” list in the bear pit.

All it takes is somebody nominating and seconding. So far it only really counts as an active going bat signal unless others think it is worthy yet.

 

[david.stad14]

Sounds like you drank 5 weeks ago......

Never the less, if you did quit drinking, stick with it.

I've had 3 beers in my entire life. That's all the alch I have had. I saw ppl get violent when drinking so it never appealed to me

 

[Threadcutter308]

I've had 3 beers in my entire life. That's all the alch I have had. I saw ppl get violent when drinking so it never appealed to me

OK, you claimed to have been sober. Sober from what then ?

You do realize you're talking in a lot of circles, right ? You're not doing yourself any favors, which partially explains why you're catching so much Flak.

 

[tarheel7734]

David here: I just want to say to you all that I usually don't think very highly of myself. My entire life I thought I was a mistake and a failure. I guess my life would be best described as a struggle. My girlfriend passed away from natural causes, near death experiences myself, my best friend died on a motorcycle, never met my father, lost everyone I cared about except for my mother and have been alone ever since. etc etc not here for sympathy or trauma dumping. I truly failed everything I tried. I sucked at basketball, math, reading, basically everything. To cope with my lack of academic achievement I would just resort to playing in the woods, because I could teach other kids about various animals and insects I would find. I had finally felt like I had value. I would dedicate countless hours and hours to the "conventional" activities school provided. So many tears were shed. I usually came in last place in anything related to k-12 except triggernometry (sexy inverse secant f(x), Vectors and those "special" angles amirite?)and always had to work much harder than other students. I recently (a few months ago) had a father figure (ex Baltimore fire captain over 20+ yrs service) in my life tell me that I need to stop being so hard on myself and that the negative self talk is stopping me from being great at whatever I plan on doing. He told me to write down on a piece of paper my Skills, talents, and passions and give myself credit because I tell him all the time that I don't think I can do it (join special forces). He said that I need to start thinking highly of myself because if I get discouraged by the daily grind I will never make it through, that positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative self talk. So after long considerate thought, I realized that being a SF sniper is my life's calling. So I said fuck it, I'm going to think highly of myself because if you shoot for the sun you'll hit the moon in the process but if you shoot only for the moon you'll never reach past your highest expectations of yourself.

Sorry.. you are not the kind of person we look for in selection of either sf or sotic/ sniper. Selection is more than physical and we look for a specific type of personality and capabilities.

 

[Bender]

David here: I just want to say to you all that I usually don't think very highly of myself. My entire life I thought I was a mistake and a failure. I guess my life would be best described as a struggle. My girlfriend passed away from natural causes, near death experiences myself, my best friend died on a motorcycle, never met my father, lost everyone I cared about except for my mother and have been alone ever since. etc etc not here for sympathy or trauma dumping. I truly failed everything I tried. I sucked at basketball, math, reading, basically everything. To cope with my lack of academic achievement I would just resort to playing in the woods, because I could teach other kids about various animals and insects I would find. I had finally felt like I had value. I would dedicate countless hours and hours to the "conventional" activities school provided. So many tears were shed. I usually came in last place in anything related to k-12 except triggernometry (sexy inverse secant f(x), Vectors and those "special" angles amirite?)and always had to work much harder than other students. I recently (a few months ago) had a father figure (ex Baltimore fire captain over 20+ yrs service) in my life tell me that I need to stop being so hard on myself and that the negative self talk is stopping me from being great at whatever I plan on doing. He told me to write down on a piece of paper my Skills, talents, and passions and give myself credit because I tell him all the time that I don't think I can do it (join special forces). He said that I need to start thinking highly of myself because if I get discouraged by the daily grind I will never make it through, that positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative self talk. So after long considerate thought, I realized that being a SF sniper is my life's calling. So I said fuck it, I'm going to think highly of myself because if you shoot for the sun you'll hit the moon in the process but if you shoot only for the moon you'll never reach past your highest expectations of yourself.

 

[Threadcutter308]

All it takes is somebody nominating and seconding. So far it only really counts as an active going bat signal unless others think it is worthy yet.

The Gold Standard (for as long as I've been around anyways) is "Papa Rocks". This doesn't even come close.....

 

[david.stad14]

OK, you claimed to have been sober. Sober from what then ?

You do realize you're talking in a lot of circles, right ? You're not doing yourself any favors, which partially explains why you're catching so much Flak.

I started smoking weed at age 21 or so and smoked about only a half a gram a week. In my entire life I have had 3 alcoholic beverages. As today stands I have been sober from everything except nicotine and coffee for a month or so.

 

[tarheel7734]

Been sober over a month. I smoke weed once a week and I never drink.

You are not sober and weed disqualifies you of service. You can not smoke weed, especially in SF.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

The Gold Standard (for as long as I've been around anyways) is "Papa Rocks". This doesn't even come close.....

Remember 'Sam Dunham'? That one started off slow, I was working overnight at the time, saw it in the morning, went to sleep, then in the afternoon checked back on it and WHOAAH...

 

[Ranchhand]

Stop being a bitch. Enlist in the Marines as an 03.
Take a scout sniper endoc. Talk is cheap.

 

[Bender]

I started smoking weed at age 21 or so and smoked about only a half a gram a week. In my entire life I have had 3 alcoholic beverages. As today stands I have been sober from everything except nicotine and coffee for a month or so.

 

[Slash0311]

Op, if you're 22, have you talked to a recruiter for any branch?

 

[Threadcutter308]

Remember 'Sam Dunham'? That one started off slow, I was working overnight at the time, saw it in the morning, went to sleep, then in the afternoon checked back on it and WHOAAH...

I don't. Could'a been before my time (February 2017).

From what I've heard, there were some epic ones back then. Far and away more epic than Papa rocks. But, that was/is my frame of reference. That thread really broke wide open on a Saturday morning.

I had a whole day's work planned and that thread fucked that all up. Best Saturday that I ever wasted away......

 

[david.stad14]

Stop being a bitch. Enlist in the Marines as an 03.
Take a scout sniper endoc. Talk is cheap.

This is the first time I have reached out on any Internet resource. I never really used the Internet like this. Didn't grow up with it. I just wanted to find a supportive community of fellow marksmen I don't have resources or connections. Scout snipers have been dismantled. Look it up

 

[akmike47]

Been sober over a month. I smoke weed once a week and I never drink.

California sober isn’t a real thing you twit

 

[tarheel7734]

Gecko45 and his bro SPECOPS (might be the same person though) GlockTalk just received a sideswipe from that hurricane of hilarity. The HK Forums was where these two made a direct hit. The original HK thread is over 20 pages long.

I was around ar15.com and hk back in the day. Never been a member of gl9cktalk..

Just every once and a while a thread reminds me of those days..

 

[lonegunman762x51]

David here: I just want to say to you all that I usually don't think very highly of myself. My entire life I thought I was a mistake and a failure. I guess my life would be best described as a struggle. My girlfriend passed away from natural causes, near death experiences myself, my best friend died on a motorcycle, never met my father, lost everyone I cared about except for my mother and have been alone ever since. etc etc not here for sympathy or trauma dumping. I truly failed everything I tried. I sucked at basketball, math, reading, basically everything. To cope with my lack of academic achievement I would just resort to playing in the woods, because I could teach other kids about various animals and insects I would find. I had finally felt like I had value. I would dedicate countless hours and hours to the "conventional" activities school provided. So many tears were shed. I usually came in last place in anything related to k-12 except triggernometry (sexy inverse secant f(x), Vectors and those "special" angles amirite?)and always had to work much harder than other students. I recently (a few months ago) had a father figure (ex Baltimore fire captain over 20+ yrs service) in my life tell me that I need to stop being so hard on myself and that the negative self talk is stopping me from being great at whatever I plan on doing. He told me to write down on a piece of paper my Skills, talents, and passions and give myself credit because I tell him all the time that I don't think I can do it (join special forces). He said that I need to start thinking highly of myself because if I get discouraged by the daily grind I will never make it through, that positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative self talk. So after long considerate thought, I realized that being a SF sniper is my life's calling. So I said fuck it, I'm going to think highly of myself because if you shoot for the sun you'll hit the moon in the process but if you shoot only for the moon you'll never reach past your highest expectations of yourself.

You know how you eat a shit sandwich?



One bite at a time.



So either keep telling your tale of woe or go see the recruiter tomorrow morning and get the hell on with it. Your "life's calling" starts with growing a pair of nuts and joining the military. Can you do step fucking #1?

Bonus points if you duct tape a set of trauma plates to your chest or if you have special shoes that allow you to climb walls. You will exceed the arfcom legends of old.

 

[Bender]

This is the first time I have reached out on any Internet resource. I never really used the Internet like this. Didn't grow up with it. I just wanted to find a supportive community of fellow marksmen I don't have resources or connections. Scout snipers have been dismantled. Look it up

If you can’t handle the Pit. You aren’t going to make it in the military. Go find a mall and be a Blart.

 

[akmike47]

I don't. Could'a been before my time (February 2017).

From what I've heard, there were some epic ones back then. Far and away more epic than Papa rocks. But, that was/is my frame of reference. That thread really broke wide open on a Saturday morning.

I had a whole day's work planned and that thread fucked that all up. Best Saturday that I ever wasted away......

We had some tards back in the day, a member even posted a picture of his DL on accident for a whole day. I wish I could remember who it was he deleted his account, but I just know he’s still here.

Seemed like a decent guy

 

[Blue Sky Country]

I don't. Could'a been before my time (February 2017).

From what I've heard, there were some epic ones back then. Far and away more epic than Papa rocks. But, that was/is my frame of reference. That thread really broke wide open on a Saturday morning.

I had a whole day's work planned and that thread fucked that all up. Best Saturday that I ever wasted away......

Sam was 2019, but that thread was tiny compared to PapaRocks. The latter was a tornadic supercell at maxed out condition dropping a mile wide F5 wedge. Nothing came close even remotely, that is why the numerous other ones get easily overshadowed...

 

[akmike47]

The best threads don’t exist anymore

Theis

So many people threw out weird hints and I figured out who he was and found multiple fake addresses and businesses before everything went public. He was convincing, but sloppy. He lucked out no one pooled info and did a deep dive sooner. Found where he scammed people before online.

 

[101st]

Performance enhancing drugs

Viagra?

 

[kl3309]

Been sober over a month. I smoke weed once a week and I never drink.

You know why you need to smoke weed? 'Cause you're a loser.
You know why you're a loser? "Cause you need to smoke weed.

Zero sympathy for anybody with a dependency.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Stop being a bitch. Enlist in the Marines as an 03.
Take a scout sniper endoc. Talk is cheap.

This right here X100... The first step is getting through that door and showing that you are made of the stuff to succeed. You will get mentorship once you go through the steps and reach important milestones. The military is a multifaceted discipline and one will be required to fire on ALL cylinders and then some. It is not about how well you can shoot or do Rambo stuff. There are people who can turn a quarter into a washer at 500 yards AND win top medals on American Ninja Warrior, but if they cannot engage in teamwork, assess and respond to critical situations appropriately, or communicate effectively with teammates, they will not make it in the military.

Today's soldier is almost 70% tech wiz as well. Even the MOST base level infantryman will be required to know how to operate and maintain multiple pieces of hi tech equipment and multimillion dollar computers/surveillance/guidance instruments. Especially now that drones and drone countermeasure systems have become an integral part of the modern battlefield. Once on campaign, a mistake as simple as reading a weather comms wrong can end up getting your entire squad stranded or killed, and other components of the operation diverted in order to deploy resources to rescue YOU, which in turn can open up weaknesses for the enemy to launch an ambush elsewhere...

 

[LuckyLuke80]

This is the first time I have reached out on any Internet resource. I never really used the Internet like this. Didn't grow up with it. I just wanted to find a supportive community of fellow marksmen I don't have resources or connections. Scout snipers have been dismantled. Look it up

You will find all kinds of support if you look in the right thread. Could even find it in the pit, but not the way you started and have continued. No way you can convince us that you joined yesterday and came straight to the bear pit looking for support. I joined and this was NOT the first place I came. I started in the prs, vintage sniper rifle etc and kind of felt my way around. I’m sure there are some that started right here, but they are mentally tougher than you or I. I’d say go out tomorrow morning and find a recruiters office. Any branch will do, just find one and tell them to send you to basic. You ain’t starting at SF and every guy in here knows that except you. Guys better than you tried and ALL start at the bottom and work up, and if you truly have all the skills you claimed in your first post then you might make it past the 6 year mark.

 

[101st]

I did not grow up in Bradenton. I grew up in an orphanage in a foreign country. Most people from my childhood aren't here with me today sadly. I'm not badass. I never claim to be better than anyone else I just try to be the best that I can be.

Harry is this you?

 

[LuckyLuke80]

See, David. What you’ve done is start out as a blowhard talking about all your skills and effectively insulted every former and current vet in the hide by acting like you “want a little advice before you join SF.” Well, every single dude in here that has or is serving started at square one when they joined. I dare say that not one of them went online and asked for advice.

 

[JoshPutman]

You need to look up a guy named Tim Kennedy. Solid dude who did a stint in Delta. You wouldn't know it to listen to him, though, as he's very humble.

 

[LeftyJason]

Sam was 2019, but that thread was tiny compared to PapaRocks. The latter was a tornadic supercell at maxed out condition dropping a mile wide F5 wedge. Nothing came close even remotely, that is why the numerous other ones get easily overshadowed...

The giant fast growing Flips thread that got deleted exceeded Papa Rocks. It was at least 30 pages in less than 3 days.

 

[Threadcutter308]

The giant fast growing Flips thread that got deleted exceeded Papa Rocks. It was at least 30 pages in less than 3 days.

Good point. Although, for some reason, I remember the Papa Rocks dust up a little more fondly. But, they were both good.

 

[LeftyJason]

Good point. Although, for some reason, I remember the Papa Rocks dust up a little more fondly. But, they were both good.

The thing is we can go back and reread that one. It would be better if we at least had the first post of that thread. The thread drift was documented quite well.

 

[Threadcutter308]

The thing is we can go back and reread that one. It would be better if we at least had the first post of that thread. The thread drift was documented quite well.

Yeah, for me, I had a little bit of sympathy for Philippe. Not much though. He was messed up. The vast majority of it was of his own doing, but not all of it. Papa Rocks on the other hand......

 

[UKDslayer]

As far as PT, an SF buddy of mine explained it, "you know that part where you are running and you think your heart is going to explode?" It won't, so you just keep running. Then he prefaced it with, "Usually it won't explode, if it fucking explodes you should have joined the regular infantry."

If you've had the jab it could explode (aortic aneurysm).

 

[jmp1]

The OP lol

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Yep....that's the one I mentioned earlier....Saclee Rhino

 

[Skeptic1]

I hate to say it but this site is turning into a joke with this shit.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Been sober over a month. I smoke weed once a week and I never drink.

Any tattoos? Hopefully no MJ leaves. You come across as a tramp stamp type.