Posted on 10/27/2009 6:46:46 AM PDT by LSUfan
The Marine Corps earned bragging rights during the 9th annual U.S. Army International Sniper Competition at Fort Benning, Ga., last week, when Leathernecks from the Corps' Scout Sniper School (West) in Camp Pendleton, Calif., claimed the title of top marksmen.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
>>>>Those Marines, ...... are keeping their names confidential ......the secrecy is related to the commands the snipers are with.<<<<<
Covert snipers. Hell yes!
Jarheads winning sharpshooter prizes falls under the same category as sun rising in the east. Of course they know how to shoot accurately and kill what they’re aiming at with one clean shot. But, now, teaching them to do something that’s more technically complicated than chambering a bullet in a Remington Model 70, well, that’s more for the fellows who wear the blue crackerjack uniforms instead of the ugly olive drab in the Department of the Navy.
Baghdad. Late 2003. About 2 am in the improvised passenger terminal...in strode about a dozen athleticly built men, each with dark complexions. None of the men appeared to be under 35, most had at least some salt and pepper in their hair. And each was carrying a long slender suitcase.
Who knows who they were? Those were not questions to be asked or even to be pondered for long. It was just best to go back to sleep.
Just reach out and touch someone...with extreme prejudice. I am very thankful for these servicemen and all members of our armed services. Bless them all.
Yes, covert.
“””Those Marines, along with most other winners — Marine and Soldier alike — are keeping their names confidential, according to Benning spokeswoman Brenda Donnell, who told Military.com today that only two Army team members are being identified.”””
A pretty darn good read, even includes discussion on the sniper team
that somehow got jumped/killed in Iraq (Baghdad?).
Includes a good selection of photos to help the civilian reader
(e.g., myself) grasp more of the challenges/accomplishments of current
US sniper teams.
Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards,
and the American Combat Sniper
~ Hans Halberstadt (Author)
Care to elaborate?
I told my son when he left for boot camp at MCRD - rmember this
The Marine Corps worships at the alter of marksmanship.
Keep your nose clean, show them you are a crack shot and you will do well.
#2 in his boot company and one of the top 3 (it kept changing) in his FAST Company...
After all those long years, how he is home and we are all very happy....
I had a chance to work with the scout snipers back in the early 90’s. They were a very impressive group of young men. The job is hard and dirty and the training is worse than the job.
Congrats Devil Dogs.
Yep. The Corps is part of the Navy........the MEN’S part. snicker.
I hope the lad didn't inherit your poor spelling skills.
Just something I saw that I didn’t see...something one knows not to ask about.
I’m sure that lots of unconventional people came through BIAP passenger terminals or other LSA LZ’s between 2am-4am.
Cool.
Do they have any pics of the Barrett .50 mounted in a hummmer?
The Marines might have won a the overall, but most of the awards went to some fine Army soldiers from Fort Bragg.
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In addition to winning in the Overall category, Pendleton’s Team 3 won 1st Place in Service Class.
Other winning teams in the Service Class were:
2nd Place - Team 24, D Company, 2nd Battalion, Special Warfare Training Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
3rd Place - C Troop, Team 6, 1st Bn., 73rd Cavalry, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg. Team members were identified as Ian Erickson and Justin Chavis. Donnell did not have their ranks.
Open Class winners were:
1st Place - Team 10, A Company, 2nd Bn., 46th Infantry Regiment, 194th Armor Brigade, Fort Knox, Ky. Team members were Staff Sgt. Kevin Wildman and Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Johns, Donnell said.
2nd Place - Team 23, D Company, 2nd Bn., SWT Group, Fort Bragg.
3rd Place - Team 21, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg.
You could air that out and fertilize your lawn with it.
Scheech, typical Jarhead you can't even get the joke straight! The statment goes: "The Corps is a part of the DEPARTMENT of the Navy...the Men's DEPARTMENT!"
Reminds me of the true story about a USMC Battalion doing R&R after a tough time in 'Nam. Seems they went to this island (gentle breezes, good beer, cute native girls in grass skirts) and they were all settled down for some fun when their skipper notices this skinny little Sailor on the next island over shouting insults at the group. So, anyway, their colonel tells his command master sergeant to get a detail together, one or two Marines, to go silence the distraction. And, so, a pair of jarheads get a rubber boat and paddle over. But they don't come back and there, at sunset, is the skinny little Sailor shouting insults again.
So this time the colonel tells his sergeant to get a squad together and send them over. And, so, a squad goes over but again, there at sunset, is the skinny little Sailor again screaming at the colonel.
Well, the Marine skipper is pretty pissed now, so he tells his sergeant to send a platoon over and lead it himself and, so, the sergeant does but, again at sunset, the Sailor is there.
"Dammit!" the colonel says to his XO, "Get the whole batallion up. I've had enough of this distraction, we're supposed to be on R&R."
So the whole batallion loads into mike boats and off they go to the next island to silence the Sailor. But, right as they get up to the beach, the old sergeant comes out yelling to them. "Go back! Go back!" he says. "There's TWO of them!"
SNIP
I hope the lad didn't inherit your poor spelling skills.
Spelling isn't a priority in the Marine Corps, killing is! Correct speech, spelling, and all other things that come under the general category of "intelligence" is best left to the greater (greatest) part of the Department of the Navy.
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