rero360
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the question I always posed when I was over in Iraq was "who do you know it was a sniper and not just some joe blow with a rifle?" my squad leader would give us intel updates and it was all the same, troops shot at here, troops shot at there, sometimes hit, most of the time not.
I guess its really a matter of symantics but all the times i got shot at, some random guy with a rifle that didn't have a full mag. As far as I'm concerned our company was engaged by a sniper once. one of the guys in my platoon was on tower guard, round came thru the "bullet proof" glass thru his helmet and took a chunk out of his ear. my guess, from examining the glass later on was that it was a armor piercing 7.62x54R round, probably came from a group of houses that were about 300 meters away.
4v50 Gary: He probably couldn't keep the Dragunov because it'd considered a war trophy, probably a couple other regs against it as well. we captured a number of weapons and you can bring them back stateside but they have to be demilled and all that, and only to be put in a exibit at the armory or something like that. the unit can bring it back but the individual soldier can't. I tried with a 1945 Remington Rand 1911 that I found, and a brand new never been fired USA made berreta 92/96
I guess its really a matter of symantics but all the times i got shot at, some random guy with a rifle that didn't have a full mag. As far as I'm concerned our company was engaged by a sniper once. one of the guys in my platoon was on tower guard, round came thru the "bullet proof" glass thru his helmet and took a chunk out of his ear. my guess, from examining the glass later on was that it was a armor piercing 7.62x54R round, probably came from a group of houses that were about 300 meters away.
4v50 Gary: He probably couldn't keep the Dragunov because it'd considered a war trophy, probably a couple other regs against it as well. we captured a number of weapons and you can bring them back stateside but they have to be demilled and all that, and only to be put in a exibit at the armory or something like that. the unit can bring it back but the individual soldier can't. I tried with a 1945 Remington Rand 1911 that I found, and a brand new never been fired USA made berreta 92/96