Snipers are extremely cost-effective on the battlefield. They can slow enemy troop movements to a crawl. They can assassinate senior enemy command officers. They can cause grave sabotage to weapons, transport and fuel. They can neutralize missiles and aircraft.
They can also glean a lot of ground intelligence, as well as emplace sensors and passive beacons, and predesignate targets with lasers that can later be used as target reference points.
While the military talks a lot about “multiplying factors” on the battlefield, snipers have just the opposite effect, acting as “divisive factors” against the enemy.
A sniper platoon plus and EOD (Explosive Ordnance Demolitions) platoon could effectively neutralize a country.
Pew pew pew pew.
No armor, no artillery, no snipers. Maybe horse cavalry is coming to the Marine Corps? Cannon fodder is the future of the Corps.
Ping.
It’s not Austin doing it, but the woke and dumb Commandant General David Berger, who’s hellbent on turning the USMC strictly into security guards for the Navy.
The new camo will be FABULOUS with all the colors of the rainbow to show the inclusive nature of our fighters.
Where did this decision originate - with The Corps itself or from higher within the DoD?