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Subject: 6 marine snipers killed!
capt soap    8/6/2005 3:43:41 PM
Does anyone know how the 6 snipers where ambushed? How do you sneek up on 6 snipers? where they in a vehical?
 
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Carl S    RE:6 marine snipers killed!   10/20/2005 7:39:49 PM
The rifles the Marine snipers use are not much longer or heavier than the M16A2 the spotter often carry. The day ot two of shooting I did with it showed little in the way of "awkwardness" between it & the M16A2. I'd think trying to get at a pistol in the holster would be more awkward than taking a snap shot with the rifle. In any case the majority of the training given the Scout/Snipers was in things that would avoid suprise. Choosing positions, routes, camoflage, and outhinking the enemy was the bulk of it. This is why I wonder if the 'snipers' killed were even on a mission. Unless they were practicing tactics grossly different from those of 1995 I am unclear on what they were doing together, unless not on a sniper mission.
 
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eatmee    RE:6 marine snipers killed!   10/22/2005 9:34:53 AM
yeah well, if they were all killed in close proximity by a sheep hearder with an AK , thats saying something. no seconday weapons sufficient. I think the swedes have got the right idea with issue of a MP5 for each member, if that is what they do.
 
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ChdNorm    RE:6 marine snipers killed!   10/22/2005 1:25:45 PM
"The earliest use I recall of selfloading rifles for snipers were the Isralis, back in the mid to late 1970s. Anyone know of earlier examples? " I dont know squat about the Marines, but I do know the scoped M-14 (I'm not sure exactly it officially became the M-21) was used by the US Amry's 9th ID in Vietnam.
 
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ChdNorm    correction   10/22/2005 1:27:22 PM
that should have read ... (I'm not sure exactly WHEN it officially became the M-21)
 
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Carl S    RE:correction   10/22/2005 2:22:34 PM
Oh ....t! The grammer police are on the loose. Someone hand me my ball bat.
 
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Ispose    M1 garand   1/15/2009 12:58:46 PM
The US Army in WWII used accurized and scoped M1 garands as sniper rifles in addition to 1903A3 Springfields
 
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