Posted: 4/10/2004 6:00:04 PM EDT
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I just finishing the books on tape version on "The 13 cent Killers, 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam" by John Cultberson a former Marine Scout Sniper in Vietnam. He offers the following lessons given by than GySgt Mitchell (at the time GySgt Mitchell was one of the most experienced combat shooters in the Marine Corps having killed so many Chinese and N Korean in the Korea war, that no one to include him knew how many that was) the head instructor at the 1st MarDivisions scout sniper school in Vietnam. 1) You train for combat in battle, not on the rifle range 2) There is no best position, the terrain will dictate how you fight 3) The quickest shot is not always the best shot, but the quicker shooter will kill the slower shooter all things being equal. 4) The Sniper who performs these functions without becoming emotional will live another day. The neurotic sniper or inexperienced rookie will invariably die due to indecisiveness 5) Americans were unusually obsessed with the "long shots." |
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Only one glaring error: Quoted: 4) The Sniper who performs these functions without becoming emotional will live another day. The neurotic sniper or [red]inexperienced rookie will invariably die due to indecisiveness [/red] If inexperienced rookies invariably die due to indecisiveness, there can be no veteran snipers. |