Posted on 12/15/2023 6:05:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
Scout Snipers have a mantra.
I learned that mantra years ago when I was assigned to lead a platoon of these Marines. My chief scout in the platoon, a title held by the most experienced Scout Sniper, was Damon.
When we met in 2012 on Camp Lejeune, Damon was in his late twenties. His guys were at-home in the woods and with a load on their backs; they rarely complained about being dirty, tired or uncomfortable. I learned quickly that Scout Snipers were the best in the battalion, regular infantrymen who had started out carrying an assault rifle or lobbing mortars but aspired to something sleeker, freer and more elite. Before graduating the arduous Scout Sniper Basic Course to earn his new, coveted title, Damon himself had carried a machine gun on a deployment to Anbar province. I remember the front of his uniform was covered in ribbons and medals earned on combat tours. On his back were the words “Scout Sniper.” They were branded into his skin.
Similar to most competitive people, Damon didn’t like following rules, including the rule that required him to buckle the chinstrap on his Kevlar helmet. Like a kid who refuses to put on a helmet before riding his bicycle, I couldn’t get him to listen. Whenever we went to the field for training, I’d see that nylon strap dangling off his sideburns. “I know, sir,” Damon would say. Until the next time it happened, and the time after that. If only he hadn’t been so good-natured (and good at his job), I might have been more insistent that he fall in line.
But I wasn’t.
Recently, the Marine Corps decided its infantry battalions no longer need Scout Snipers. The final class graduates today from the Scout Sniper Basic Course.
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Are the only kind of decisions “bad decisions”?
Since I fully believe our military is being recruited, trained, and equipped to wage war against Americans, this is not a bad thing to not have Marines trained to fight in the wild. The elites think war against the US will be purely urban.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Army is actually expanding its sniper program. Including women. Go figure...
Snipers add a sense of order to the uncontrolled mayhem that constitutes your average firefight. Things get downright creepy when they are about.
The elites in DC may get surprised by elites in Beijing who want our resources, but don’t want any non-Chinese race to be left. Especially white and black elitists.
https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/merit_badge_reqandres/rifle_shooting.pdf ... Boy Scout merit badge info re shooting. My husband was a scout leader for years. The merit badge/s info is all online now fyi.
I think women make good snipers. There have been more than a few.
We will be back.
Semper Fi.
L
Annual event honoring Major Jim Land who started the school. Still an old school Marine
https://majorlandsnipercup.com/
Old men and women can both have the shooting capability of a sniper, but can they fulfill all the physical challenges that an American sniper may face to conduct a mission?
Since man started forming armies, there has always been a group of elite fighters that were out front of the pack.
I think that a trans should be a leader of the future "scouts", they need the variety.
The Anti-exceptionalism of theWoke officer corps now ruling the US military making another epic mistake.
There can be no elite soldiers in the non-binary’s Marine Corp!
I don’t think Scout Snipers and regular snipers are the same thing.
Different terms. Same mission.
My wife is a CC instructor, pretty good in math, and a pretty good shot overall. However, she has trouble understanding the finer points behind the mechanics and detail of accurately lobbing bullets long distances. In her words: "This is a lot of trouble just to make one shot."
Full Clown material, right here:)
Scout Sniper School has come and gone a number of times, the military does that, they used to break up the Ranger units after every war.
“Recently, the Marine Corps decided its infantry battalions no longer need Scout Snipers.”
Obama/Biden “generals”. No more tanks and artillery either.
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