Number One Sniper

[tonyav]

Well it turns out one of our guys is the number one sniper ( a royal marine ) and not an American navy seal.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/british-royal-marine-is-worlds-deadliest-sniper/ar-AA8SF3j

[youngmafbog]

Well done to him, we have another big job for him though.

[Baldric]

Well done that man!

[ToraToraTora]

does he want a part time job?

[sevenOP]

"Because he saw the enemy as humans, he has not struggled emotionally or psychologically with what has happened. "
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/british-royal-marine-is-worlds-deadliest-sniper/ar-AA8SF3j

[RandyMarsh]

Is this the British sniper who recorded 6 kills with one bullet?

[Orderlimit]

BBC reporter asked RM Commando sniper "what do you feel when you shoot a terrorist" reply "recoil"

[DTCwordfan]

Brilliant, Order....

[DaisyNonna]

My uncle was a sniper in the First World War.
A very gentle soul who was the first to help any neighbour or colleague with a problem. Quiet and unassuming. He never mentioned the war but I once overheard him talking to my father who had served in the Second World War. He said that as the best shot in his unit he was ordered to do this and truly believed that he was doing to protect his mates.

[Peter Pedant]

The distances are phenomenal

The side story that one sniper managed to shoot his 'oppo' ( the one trying to er shoot him ) through the sniper sight is true ( Vietnam )
and I think it is the final scene in a film catchily named Sniper


During WW2 the use of sniper scopes was not quite cricket
( and I think a sniper was at risk of being summarily shot if he were found with one ) Jude Law and Bob Hoskins star in a film 'Hollywood goes to Stalingrad ' That concerns a Russian sniper called Zaitsev I think.

Big thing in Germany during the Russian campaign. 1941-2.
My father had a lot of time to read the German accounts - [ by then he was an interpreter in a POW camp ] but for a long time went un-noticed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev

[Orderlimit]

Leading the criticism of the film was who said that his own uncle had been killed by a Japanese sniper in the Second World War. He described them as "cowards" who did not "believe in a fair fight".

What a nob

[ChillDoubt]

I salute this Marine's skill and fortitude.
He will however have to go some way before he's in the same class as this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

[stuey]

Trivia question: what is the name of the camouflage suit that snipers supposedly wear?

[stuey]

Damn! I gave you half the answer in my question...Well here's me fading away into the background:)

[-Talbot-]

Well here's me fading away into the background:)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI6EpEvs3mc