Once you were an operational sniper, you would have been assigned to an infantry battalion, not FORECON or MARSOC. In order to have confirmed sniper kills, you must be deployed as a sniper. A combat engineer that kills a guy at 200yds doesn't get awarded a sniper kill.You are wrong, I went to Sniper School during my time in Force Recon, before assignment to MAROC.
Except Scout Sniper is a secondary MOS.Regardless, just because a primary MOS is changed does not mean everything learned goes away. For example, snipers just don’t sneak and shoot, they engage hand to hand and everything in between.
Obvious Stolen Valour telling a veteran they have zero military training is a laugh.The problem with zero military training is, people like you think combat is black and white.
A "fucking cook" isn't walking around armed and doesn't go on patrol, so it's actually really rare for it to happen, and it certainly wouldn't be called a sniper kill.A fucking cook will shoot the enemy,
No they won't. Truck drivers are not trained in demolitions handling. They wouldn't have the first clue how. Blowing up a bridge is not as simple as it sounds. It's a very technical thing.a truck driver will blow up a bridge.
You would know that if you weren't just a 16 year old in your parents basement. And these comments are especially rich given how much you shit on Canada when you consider that the Canadian military, unlike most branches of the US military, operates on the basis that "everyone is a soldier first". If the squad automatic rifleman falls on patrol, every Canadian soldier, even a pay clerk, has at least a familiarization on the operation of the light machine gun to be able to cover the position and still provide that crucial support. Anyone in a combat arms has more than familiarization and are able to take advanced courses to fill in. In the US Army, not so.
4 years in FORECON (during which you went to scout sniper school apparently) and 4 years at MARSOC does not afford a lot of time to get a degree and go to O-School.To address your enlisted comment, many people go to school in the military, obtain a degree and become an officer….
I didn't say you couldn't go to sniper school.AND many operators, enlisted as well as officers assigned to SOC, go to sniper school.
The USMC indeed allowed officers to go to scout sniper school to acquire familiarization with their capabilities in order to better understand how to utilize them during battle planning. They were not deployed as operational snipers, which is the requirement to have confirmed sniper skills.
Says the guy inventing shit.Every SOCOM unit works as a team, depending on assignment a team will consist of as little as 4 people. All four are , or should have the same training. Officers don’t go to jump school, or divers school…..they just give commands….nonsense, YOU ARE 100% STUPID AND WATCH WAY TOO MUCH TV.
Let's review what you've said. 4 years FORECON, 4 years MARSOC, Scout Sniper school during FORECON, plus a 4-year degree during your operational time, and an unheard of operational tempo where you did more combat deployments than guys with 12 years managed.
So basically you're saying day 1 in FORECON you went to sniper school, but weren't designated a scout sniper since you weren't reassigned to an infantry battalion, you then completed your 4-year degree (which means no time for combat deployments), and whatever rank you were when you finished and qualified for MECEP, you were commissioned, sent to MARSOC and in 4 more years, completed 52 combat deployments, which would mean enough missions as part of a team where, despite being the IC, you were personally considered a sniper and able to amass sniper kills, but also in that 4 years get to staff college to make it to Colonel and become the regimental commander, a post that one of only 8 people have held since it's inception?
I'm getting that right, yes? That's what you claim, and then you accuse me of watching too much TV?
There have been 8 Regimental Commanders in MARSOC, first for MSOR and later MRR. Only one started as enlisted. So unless you're going to tell me you're Col (Retd) Andrew Milburn, the man behind the Mozart Group, currently training Ukrainian special forces in Ukraine, you're full of shit. Also, Milburn has zero sniper kills and doesn't have 52 combat deployments.
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