Marine Snipers Scope Out New Tactics

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Marine Snipers Scope Out New Tactics
Marine Corps News | Cpl. Scott M. Biscuiti | January 31, 2008

UDAIRI RANGE COMPLEX, Kuwait - Thanks to new sniping tactics picked up by Marine scout snipers in Kuwait, insurgents caught in their scopes are guaranteed to have a bad day.

The Scout Sniper Platoon and Reconnaissance Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, attended a ten-day training package Jan. 20-30 headed by National Sniper Champion Todd Hodnett who taught the Marines how to improve their lethality with new shooting formulas, shooting positions and techniques.

"Training with Todd Hodnett has taken our capabilities to a level that I didn't think was possible as a scout sniper," said Cpl. Ryan Lindner, a scout sniper with Scout Sniper Platoon and Napa Valley, Calif., native.

"Todd has really revolutionary tactics about shooting (around, over and within buildings.)"

During the training, the snipers where able to effectively engage targets that were behind buildings and many Marines hit targets at distances that they never attempted before.


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1. hey, why not use some of this wondrousness to defend the USA

from its deadliest enemy, the gopig tapeworms? The Iraqis are sure defending THEIR COUNTRY