Posted on 03/21/2017 12:26:34 PM PDT by w1n1
In a segment from National Geographic Ultimate Soldiers we look at one of snipers attribute, that is “mind control“. A well-trained sniper uses mind over matter to control his own physiology. A situation that many snipers find themselves in the middle east is operating in a hot climate.
In this test to highlight a long range precision shooter ability to shoot between heartbeat. Researchers build a sniper coffin with a gun port, 100 feet away sits a target. Increasing the heat temperature is another simulation to increase the stress on the sniper. Increased heat can raise your heart rate and with longer period exposed can instill dehydration. See how cool this sniper does on this test. See the cool sniper footage here.
Interesting. I’ve read that snipers used to be looked down upon...not enough chivalry for the era. Now, they’re ‘cool’.
As a kid in the 1970s I recall that none of the service man of my fathers generation (WWII) had anything good to say about snipers, friend or foe. I seemed to recall hearing a few of the guys chuckling over lighting up one Jap sniper with a flame thrower and watching him in this death throes as he burned to death, a gruesome and horrid end. The comment was, not one would waste a bullet to end his misery.
Now I asked my father about that, as it seemed rather barbaric at the time. His response (paraphrased) was that snipers shot men when they could not strike back, were professional killers, not soldiers and as such could “expect no quarter”. He and his generation viewed them as sociopaths or quite close to such.
Most of the American vets I recall were combat support roles, not front line soldiers, the few guys I seem to recall that were combat types were Germans, but they did not like snipers either. The few combat vests were from the pacific and they were by no means at all kindly disposed to the Japs at all, but they were the ones with the harshest things to say about snipers. Take it for what you will.
“.........but those little guns are cute.”
Like the snipers say, “you gotta get out of the tank to use the can eventually.”
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
You’ve obviously never been on one for an extended stay.
Thats just one and two of many reasons you dont go ripping open every ‘empty’ .50cal can you find just layin around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzCOFER-4hI
A song dedicated to her by a fellow commie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHKjOl9ocR0
One of the MACVSOG recon types who was KIA and posthumously awarded the CMH told a senior officer I knew well -”you have never really killed a man until you have looked into his eyes.” I don’t think there is a coolest or a best as it takes all MOS’s to win. This recent glory seeking by certain SPECOPS types goes against what we were taught. I was always proud to be a quiet professional.
Snipers can break down the other side’s morale.NVA troops refused to go out on patrol when Hathcock was working the area.
Sounds like psychopath
When a couple of local sheriff's department SWAT team riflemen and I were discussing equipment recently, one asked me what kind of rifle I preferred. I told him my favourite was the M68 rifle with a 10x telescopic sight, but that the 52-ton bipod could be inconvenient....
On the waaaay!
My service wasn’t anything to talk about. Just a cog in the Big Machine. I was lucky because I was a week away from being drafted when I enlisted in the USN for 4 years. On the day of my induction, every other Army draftee was drafted into the USMC and proceeded directly to Parris Island. That was in December of 1967.
Irish Guards Commander Tim Collins addresses his men before they enter Iraq.
There were some damned fine men and women in that bunch then, from the man at the top to the bottom. There still are; they took him at his word, and they lived up to it.
Every cog has a place and a purpose, all necessary for operation of the machine.
Thank you for your service!
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