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Well, most of them were probably civilians, in a country that hasn’t been bombed for the entire duration of the war. Nicolas Flamme on April 20th, 2017 - 5:29pm So at one point, she shot the German soldier’s leg, so other would rush to his help and become targets? Man, that...
in a very secretive manner, but testing was done by every level of troops from armorers and engineers down to the snipers that would actually be using the rifle. Considerable input was supposedly also gained from US Marine Scout/Sniper School at Quantico and the US Army Marksmanship Unit....
Olsen said Kyle's claims that Ventura said he hated America, thought the U.S. military was killing innocent civilians in Iraq and that the SEALs "deserve to lose a few" had made him a pariah in the community that mattered most to him — the brotherhood of current and former SEALs. "On...
Seven other officers and two civilians were also injured when a peaceful demonstration over police violence was riven by chaos.
Today's sniper must also perform on a more nebulous battlefield populated with urbanized insurgents. Insurgents are impossible to distinguish visually from innocent civilians, so a sniper often doesn't know what his target is until it's shooting at him. Gunfights are almost always fast and chaot...
But, the one thing we did right was put ourselves and our emotions aside for the betterment of the kids. This is lesson one. It was tough to go from little league coach and drop off the kids at school daily dad, to divorced part-time dad. After all, I left the Navy SEALs early ...
This was something else we covered in sniper school: You visualize a familiar distance, say, a football field. That’s one football field, two football fields, three football fields … but this can be risky when you’re not on level ground. Here I had to sight up a rugged, rocky ...