[n230099]

I love my .308 but am happy with a saucer sized 20 round (peepsight) group at 100 yds.

[Milhous]

[LasVegasMac]

Staff Sgt Gilliland, 28, who hunted squirrels in Double Springs, Alabama from the age of five before progressing to deer - and then people.

I bet those words make liberals just start to vibrate.

Good shooting and keep it up!

LVM

[RoseofTexas]

Private York of WWI comes to mind! Good for him!

[saquin]

This is not really on-topic but after seeing this picture I just have to say I really hate this whole backwards-American-flag-patch thing. I understand the reasoning for facing the flag backwards when it's on the right shoulder (though I still don't really like it and think it looks silly. A soldier is not always moving briskly forward anyway, making the backwards flag make sense in the convoluted "that's the way it would be blowing if it was a real flag" kinda way. Sometimes he's just standing still. And when I see pictures of Iraqi kids looking at that backwards flag on a soldier's shoulder it just rubs me the wrong way. Is a whole generation in another country going to think that's what our flag looks like?) and it's things like this that bring home why. Once you manufacture all those backwards flags they'll be backwards wherever they're placed, even when velcroed on the front of the vest as this one is.

I guess I just don't like seeing a backwards flag. It just strikes me wrong. Our flag is so beautiful as it is.

[saquin getting off soapbox]

(One more thing... aren't snipers supposed to be kept kinda anonymous?)

[saquin]

Did anyone else also notice that this "insurgent" who had just killed an American soldier was headquarted in a HOSPITAL. I don't want to hear anymore crying from liberals that the big bad U.S. military is targeting peaceful hospitals and ambulances. This is the kind of s**t that has been going on for 3 years now, with the terrorists using hospitals, ambulances, etc.

[houeto]

The photo gives far too much info for my comfort zone. I can't imagine the U.S. military wanting that out but who knows.

[joesnuffy]

"Move fast, shoot straight and leave the rest to the counsellors in 10 years"

truer words were never spoken...there should have been an amen at the end of them

You gotta survive to have PTSD....:)

[R. Scott]

Fortuna was with him that day.

[JoeBob]

Staff Sgt Gilliland, 28, who hunted squirrels in Double Springs, Alabama from the age of five before progressing to deer - and then people.,

The ultimate prey!!

[ghitma]

I wish that the reports would not post the names of the snipers.

[M203M4]

Here's hoping for another 50.

[Domestic Church]

Eagle eye!!!

[Southack]

I say hey man "Nice Shot!"

[yarddog]

Well he is doing a lot of good.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Col John Gronski, the overall United States commander in Ramadi, said there could not be a military solution. "You could spend years putting snipers out and killing IED emplacers and at the political level it would make no difference."

Sorta reminds me of the battle with the squirrels in my bird feeders. On a different level, of course.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

"He was visible only from the waist up. It was a one in a million shot. I could probably shoot a whole box of ammunition and never hit him again."

Don't let that fool ya i'll bet in a pinch he could do it every time !

God Bless him.

[BallyBill]

Martin Riggs ran into some of them Shadow Co. guys back in '69. He killed a guy from 1.5 miles or was that K's? I think I watch too many movies.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Thank you, Gilliland and Arnold. A job well done.

[Dustbunny]

GOD Bless him and keep him safe.

GOD Bless our Military and keep them safe.