MILITARY: Leathernecks Outshoot Army in Sniper Competition

North County Times ^ | October 29, 2009 | MARK WALKER

[Lancey Howard]

Chalk up another bull's-eye for the Marine Corps.

On Friday, Camp Pendleton is celebrating a big win over the Army, a traditional military rival.

Shooters from the Southern California base's School of Infantry have returned home with the top prize in the ninth annual U.S. Army Sniper Competition that took place Oct. 14-22 at Fort Benning, Ga.

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

[Sarajevo]

I'm trying to think of a sarcastic, yet funny, anti-Marine gybe, but I am at a loss.

Good Job Marines

[BellStar]

Say it ain’t so!

[lentulusgracchus]

Bravo Zulu to the Pendleton Marines!

I'm glad I'm behind the bench.

[Grimmy]

This is only as it should be.

Semper Fi

[rottndog]

I didn’t notice if any SEALs were involved...probably would have embarrassed the competition too much.

US Navy....a higher form of marine life.

[ComputerGuy]

The spirit of Carlos Hathcock lives on !

SF

[fso301]

I didn’t notice if any SEALs were involved...probably would have embarrassed the competition too much.

I don't know if SEAL's have snipers who do nothing but train at sniping day in and day out. In general, special forces men are very good at everything but not necessarily the best at any one particular thing.

[Blueflag]

You could say something about HOLLYWOOD Marines (Pendleton is in southern Ca) but that would make the Army look even worse.

OORAH!

[03A3]

Not much detail. So did the boys in the crotch use M40A whatevers vs M24’s?

[jmaroneps37]

Makes this Marine proud! Semper Fi and Ooh Rah!

[Recon Dad]

Why not let better men define the Marines and their ranking as the big dogs.....

“U.S MARINE CORPS is Part of the Navy, the MEN'S DEPARTMENT...”

“Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.” -RAdm. “Jay” R. Stark, USN; 10 November 1995

“I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Godda**ed MARINES get all the credit!”
-Lt General George Patton, US Army 1945

“You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth- and the amusing thing about it is that they are.”
Father Kevin Keaney
1st Marine Division Chaplain
Korean War

I hope you realize this is all in fun.......but true.

[Recon Dad]

I don’t know if SEAL’s have snipers

They do have snipers! Oh, and the best are trained at Quantico.

[Travis McGee]

My guess?
The SEALs are too busy doing back to back to back deployments in country shooting at live targets to spend time on this “peacetime” play-acting.

[imahawk]

LOL

[imahawk]

Some somali pirates come to mind.

[imahawk]

Congradulations to the MARINES.Well done!

[fso301]

They do have snipers! Oh, and the best are trained at Quantico.

I know they have snipers. What isn't clear to me is if their role is exclusively that of sniper or, if in addition to their other roles within a SEAL team, they being the teams best shot are the teams designated sniper?

[MrB]

I hope the lot of them have their signatures on the Oath Keepers registry...

[imahawk]

At some point we are going to need them.

[OldEagle]

Ah yess "...kick the s**t out of the purple-pissing Japanese..."

Georgie, you know that's RACIST!!!

[bmwcyle]

God Bless Marines!!!

[Lurker]

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!” Eleanor Roosevelt.

L

[Lurker]

to spend time on this “peacetime” play-acting.

A gentle correction my good friend. It's this 'play-acting' that keeps these people alive when the metal hits the meat.

[Dead Corpse]

Example of SEAL live targets?

Lead or follow, but get out of the way...

[Recon Dad]

That is a great quote, here's one from a contemporary marine I think is in the class of Chesty Puller,

“I come in peace, I didn't bring artillery. But I am pleading with you with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all.”
-Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders

[Recon Dad]

They may have a couple of guys on a team that is sniper qualified, but they do name one the designated sniper. My son is on a team and they have 3 out of their 5 man team qualified snipers, I'm betting it's the same on a SEAL team

[Recon Dad]

They are very busy, all of SOCOM are right now.

[OldEagle]

I love it!!!

[bigheadfred]

A REAL MISS AMERICA ....

This 19 year old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target (i.e., she shot him).

It turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban, and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later.

It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers.

The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot went through his butt and into the bomb which detonated; he was blown to pieces. The Air Force made a motivational poster of her:

(Folks, that's a shot 25 yards longer than seven football fields!) And the last thing that came out of his mouth ... was his rear!

If You Cannot Stand Behind Our Troops, please Feel Free To Stand In Front Of Them!

[wolf24]

mark

[Girlene]

Great story!

[litehaus]

Is that a White Feather?

[bigheadfred]

Just trying to even things up a bit. ;-))

[ComputerGuy]

Bullseye

[Lancey Howard]

Not much detail. So did the boys in the crotch use M40A whatevers vs M24’s?

I'm trying to find more detail. They probably used 40s.

[jazusamo]

What? :-)

Congrats to thos Marine snipers!

[jazusamo]

Good for her!

Hope he’s embarrassed about how he was dispatched to his virgins.

[Lancey Howard]

The Marines have four Scout Sniper basic schools, including the one at Quantico. If the SEALS are trained at the Quantico school by Marine hogs, then they are probably pretty good. I know that Navy corpsmen who have been accepted into a Marine sniper platoon are eligible to go to USMC Scout Sniper Basic School but I haven’t heard of SEALS going through it.

[amom]

Excellent work!

Thanks for the ping.

[amom]

Excellent post!

[21twelve]

I recall another freeper saying he has (or saw) a bumper sticker that said something like:

God Bless Our Troops
Especially the Snipers

[bigheadfred]

My nephew was a sniper in Iraq. now serving 10 years in Leavenworth.
This is a link to a link. A cartoon. It is probably offensive. It is meant to be.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2374563/posts?page=23#23

[amom]

Thanks for the link.

I read your nephews account...one of the worst nightmares, only we don’t get to wake up.

Please thank him for his service on my behalf.

[Recon Dad]

My son related that in his class they had some officers and that every time their was a tough day scheduled for some reason the officers had pressing business elsewhere.

According to my son sniper school at Quantico was just as tough as BRC with more peopled dropped.

Where's the 4th school? Camp Lejeune, Pendleton, Quantico and ?

[2111USMC]

Springfields with iron sights. Just to make it sporting.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Wait ‘til next year.

And thanks to all of the competitors for their service.

[imahawk]

That is one Lady you treat bad at your peril.LOL.Good for her.

[Lancey Howard]

Hawaii.