OH NO, Not Jimbo!
OH NO, Not Jimbo!
If marksman qualifies you as a sniper, then there are a lot of snipers around.
100 mph in a chevette?!?
yeah right - makes a much sense as the rest of this POS article - a helicopter mechanic Marine sniper! What a good cover for a movie by an ignorant liberal wannabe reporterette.
Marksmanship instructor is nowhere near going through sniper training (I washed out of sniper school in 1969 -wrong psychological profile) and I was also a marksmanship instructor. The latter being of no consequence to a person's ability or penchant for being a sniper. 'nuff said.
Typical clueless reporting. It is amazing how often, especially where it pertains to anything to do with firearms, deadlines trump research.
This disturbed young man was not a sniper. He did not have sniper skills. He had Marine marksmanship training and some equipment. Unless one attends a Marine Corps Division sniper school, or THE scout sniper school on Quantico, one is not a sniper. Sniper skills are many and precision marksmanship, though fundamental to the activity, is just one (land nav, stalking, tracking, land nav, physical fitness, land nav, CQC, E&E, and land nav are a few). Marine marksmanship training, even at the basic, bootcamp level, is still the best in the armed services. Good solid fundamentals are still taught over known-distance ranges. Sight alignment, sight picture, and trigger control work with ANY equipment one choses to acquire.
Granted this unhinged guy knocked down a chopper with a rifle shot (sounds like he was going for the pilot and didn't calculate his drop correctly.....hit in the leg?), and that sort of makes the tone of the article understandable. The lack of solid facts about what a Marine knows and what makes a sniper is not understandable.
Hope the kid gets some help and/or punishment.
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