You nailed it, failing them saves their own lives. If the instructor can see you, the enemy can. Not everyone can be a sniper. That's ok, a guy who isn't a great sniper might be a great demolition expert. There's room for everyone.
One of my professors was a Marine sniper during Desert Storm. He passed away a couple of years ago. RIP Mr. Hodak. We will never forget your service and teaching ability
Especially given the equipment he had to work with in the 1960's, as compared to all of these now long-range shot records with modern equipment and gear. RIP Gunny!
My now exhubby is an army sniper. He’s also an Airborne Ranger. I remember the day he left and graduated. Look up army Ranger training , and Pathfinder school. My brother is all the above.
in the Air Force there is a mechanic course that is called Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) for short. it deals with all the support equipment that they use to service the air planes while on the ground. it's covers electrical generation, hydraulics, pneumatic, nitrogen generation and more. during my career I have worked with special equipment for different aircraft like the SR-71 U-2, C-5, C-141, KC-135, F-4, F-14, F-15, T-38, A-10 plus more.
@richardkrieger8940 much respect, my first base (eielson) I was lucky enough to have several civilians in the shop that really got me off to a good start.
@@richardkrieger8940 that be the one, I was only there for 3 years but man it was a great place to be stationed, even allowed me to go through SERE arctic training since it was taught on base, but I was to good at spuds so I spent a mass majority of my time in the truck, but thanks *completely* to the civilians it never stopped me from doing maintenance, they were my biggest advocates for being in the shop and if I got called while elbow deep in something, often times they would take care of it for me if I couldn't wrap up in time.
Thanks for watching this with us. I was belt-fed the exact opposite of snipers, lots of bullets in one spot but watching the schools reminds me of the good ol days
My cuzzin was a Marine sniper after the Vietnam war he enlisted for four years. One day while training he realized that if he went into combat these targets he practiced on would be human. He did his four and got out before he had to do combat. Sure taught a bunch of us cuzzins how to shoot straight Augusta Ga
Ghillie suits are all that. One night one of my scouts brought one to play capture the flag. He was gathering intel at an opponents HQ when they started arguing “boulder” vs “player”. The scout who insisted that what they were looking at was a boulder threw a rock at it and knocked his brother on the head.
That was pretty cool. I know a guy who was a sniper for the US Army during the Vietnam war; the stories he had were amazing. There was an elderly many who owned a camera shop not too far from me, during WWII, he was a code breaker, he was fascinating to have conversations with. If you could find piece on code breakers, you'd probably really enjoy it.
Becoming a marine sniper is even harder as you have to do air, land, and sea sniping training. Two of which are from moving platforms. The water sniping is the hardest as you constantly adjust on the fly to get the shot and it’s rough. A marine sniper took out that Somali pirate several years back from a patrol boat while his target was small and barely poked his head out but the shot came and people were rescued.
US Navy SEAL Snipers . If SEAL Snipers hadn't been on scene their swimmers would have swam to the lifeboat and shot them in the head with .45 pistols or 12 gauge shotguns .
to andy luo = Army Vet Here of Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. to answer you...Just like Black guys have bigger P...kers than White guys!? Its why every year there is the multi-service Sniper Comp.....Rarely has the Marines won it just like AMU at Camp Perry! Dude....just like the better Marine Commercials....Marines are best at Boasting so everyone thinks a Marine is better than Army or even a Ranger! LOL Example: Clint Eastwoods Movie Heartbreak Ridge ... In Granada...Those were Objectives that the RANGERS TOOK!!!! Not the Marines!!! I went to Sniper School in 1993 (Top Gun/Distinguished Honor Grad!) This Video hardly showed anything thing of what's in the whole school. Army Advanced Sniper course is SOTEC Sniper. So Marine, stop thinking this is just the only training besides what you learn at the Units. It's like your belief that Every Marine is trained as an infantry Man! If you actually go to a fighting unit, you quickly discover quick how much you Actually do not know or are not ready for combat! If they put every piece of knowledge and all the manuals from calling in fire, calling in a Medivac, rigging a Helicopter for a Fast Rope or Rappel Mission, Boat Ops/Scout Swimmer/Parachuting/ Pathfinder/Tracking/Medical/Recon/Radios/Weapons/principles of patrolling, writing a Brief back/OPORDER and I'm just touching a very few things. You could safely say you never feel like you know enough and what you do learn could almost equal to a Doctorates Degree! Look Brother/Sister, I have nothing but respect for you serving, and I have worked with Marines/Marine Recon Units. You are my brothers/sisters and we have done quite a bit of time at war. So, let's stop with the interservice rivalry and we're better, because I want you to know, if you were in contact and needed a QRF, I would be first on the Helo to come get you home. Yea our uniform doesn't look as pretty as yours, but I know how to fight, and I know I can get you home! I assume you would do the same for me and my Army buddies. Thats all I'm going to say. God Bless you and Love you and you all. Its time we band together because we are not enemies. The people who send us away for lies/money/bogus policies/drugs.... and not freedom, are our enemies! WE ... WE ARE AMERICA!!! NOT THEM!
I was in a sniper section as a scout for a long time in the army. As you said, we won’t learn most of the above that marines snipers do through their course of instruction. I will say though, the army was really good about once you graduated sniper school and went back to your unit you would do allllll sorts of training and cross training. We would do high angle shoots from helos with the coast guard, we would have our amphibious section learn from marines and train with them on use and Infil of their zodiacs and how’s to employ snipers in those situations etc…
Great video, as always. Brought to mind a meme I saw that went: Snipers in video games-Insert, shoot, extract Snipers in real life-I've been here for 43 hours...and I just sh*t myself. There are many top notch, tough schools in the military...this is definitely one of them.
I did this kind of camouflaging as a teenager WITHOUT a guile suit, just wearing standard BDUs during the wargames my friends and I used to have on weekends. I have actually had people step on me and not know they did it. I have literally have had people on the other side of a dirt mound, (3 feet away) with tree growth, and thought I was simply a shadow in the moonlight. These techniques are more common sense than a learned skill if you use logical thinking. Another wargame when my team went up against another in my hometown I was camoed up and laying still behind a fallen tree (no more than 12 inches around) and created an ambush location. One member of the other team tried flanking around and ended up crawling directly in front of me, no more than 6 feet away, and when the moment was right and he stretched out his arm to crawl, I lit him up right into the side of his chest. After about four or five point blank shots from a CO2 pistol in his side, he gave up. He also cheated by telling his buddy where I was because a few minutes later his buddy came "stealth" walking near me yet kept his eyes on my location at all times and when he finally stopped about 20 yards away and pointed his pistol at me, I lit him up also. Fired 15 shots at him until he ran away.
Way back in my early U.S. Army career, in 1972 on a Ranger Long-Range Recon team, one of the very first things we were taught as fng’s (newbies) was the factors of recognition against camouflage, needed to save our lives when on patrol. There were 8 factors of recognition that you had to always consider could be used to spot you, and I can still recall them today some 50 years later. BTW, also helpful for hunting too! :-). Those were position, shape, shadow, color, contrast, shine, texture, and the biggie is movement. These factors must be considered in camouflage to insure that 1 or more does not reveal the location. Good stuff NZ’s - keep them coming.
Good show, movement is the key, it can take hours to move just 100 meters, stay low, move slow and don't silhouette yourself or equipment. You guys should try this one day and do a reaction on each other now that your summer is coming soon it might be fun to watch... My money is on Denz to win, he's so sneaky!
Saw video on sniper school training. Started out with a view of a meadow at edge of forest. Suddenly 10 guys stand up. Couldn't tell they were there til they stod. Another part was while stalking, 1 sniper was spotted by instructor because he missed camo on a very small part of 1 glove. Have you checked out the record distance for kill shot? Think is now held by either a Brit or Canadian. Over 1.5 MILES. They have to figure in distance, wind,curve of the Earth, bullet drop,humidity & whole lot of other factors. Vid I saw said sniper had to aim 17 m to 1 side of target for hit.
Great selection for a reaction. This is completely off topic but something you may find interesting. If you look at 11:55 you can see beyond the soldier a pine sapling with very long needles. This is a longleaf pine with needles that normally grow from 12 to 14 inches long. It is a tree that can easily grow to 50 meters tall but does so slowly. It is native to the southeast and was harvested heavily for decades for the purpose of paper and lumber until it was on the verge of extinction because when it was harvested, it was replaced with faster-growing slash pine like the saplings you see just this side of the soldier. In the last 15 years or so, there has been an effort to bring back the longleaf pines and they are starting to flourish again.
Sometimes there is a time limit.. But one good tactic for the stalking part of the course is A Delayed Start. The instructors will begin at a different time as you. Not starting when they expect you gives you an edge. Also, if possible. Gage where the instructors are. More that the target. Being spotted is worse than being late or inaccurate.
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I spent 26 years in the Army, Airborne, Ranger, Special Forces, and Sniper qualified. Also did 2 years as a cadre at the Sniper School at Ft. Benning. The one thing they don't say is that as cadre we he have real world experience and when the students are donning their cammo the one thing most of them forget is that there isn't much we haven't seen, so the challenge becomes placing the cammo well enough that you not only blend in with the surroundings but also well enough that it's not something cadre have seen 1000 times.
You might want to check out a video on Carlos Hathcock - a legendary US Marine Corps sniper that pulled some amazing sniping feats during the Vietnam war. I don't have any specific videos in mind, but I'm sure you can find a good one with a TH-cam search.
93 confirmed kills . Many more probably but unconfirmed . He was a humble man from Arkansas , shooting to put food on the table . He didn't want to harm anyone , and felt that his particular skill set was his contribution to save his brothers in the war .
Very interesting! I feel so bad though, for missing the live stream I didn't know y'all were going have 8 days ago. Love your channel ! From South Dakota USA
“Dig your hole, dig a ditch!!” Always the best advice for a war fighter…kinda off topic to snipers strategic techniques and missions but a common practice..
My Dad trained in Alaska way back in like the late 1940s and he told us for the actual shooting part they had to strip down to their long John's and lay on the snow and ice for their target practice he said it did not take him long to get the target dead on!
One of the most famous US snipers did a high profile sniper stalk while deployed during the Vietnam War. If I remember correctly, he belly crawled three days to get into position in an open field to make his final shot. He was ultimately successful and it’s one of his most notable kills.
NZ FAMILY PLEASE READ!!!! I know you don't see all the comments sent to you, But i hope you see this one. I sent you a box a couple weeks ago. I hope you get it soon. We noticed Arkansas was not colored on your map, so we thought hard and put together a box that was all about food & recipes from Arkansas. Hope you enjoy! Love watching y'all! And hope it will give you some ideas for the cooking videos! Enjoy!!
If that was Ft Stewart Georgia I was stationed there for three years. During our PLDC training there we did plenty of exercises in those woods and swamps. The one that made me just a tad jumpy was the night land navigation in the swamps and woods. Alligators everywhere. The sniper school was down the road a ways from us
The human eye is drawn to movement. Especially if it's inconsistent with the ambient environment. This just goes back to when humans were on the menu. Any movement that wasn't "normal" could be indicative of something that wants to eat you. What about insects, bugs, things that want to share that gillie suit with you. Anybody that's spent time in the woods knows repellent goes only so far, it can also give off an odor. Swatting at mosquitoes could to lead to swatting at bullets. Wild life is going to react to your presence. Flushing birds, background noise suddenly stops, things run.
My brother was a sniper for the 101st Airborne during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He will tell stories of his time in the infantry, and he will talk about some of the horrible stuff he saw in the 101st scouts. But my brother doesn’t talk about being a sniper. There are no stories he tells. I remember a time at Thanksgiving dinner and my nephew asked “uncle Mike, did you ever have to shoot a kid?” And his dad, my other brother, that was in the 101st with him during the war, said “Son we don’t ask those questions!” The tone in my youngest brothers voice, while not loud, was understood. Cool fact my brothers call sign (I was Naval Aircrew, so that’s what I call it, I don’t know what the Army calls it) was Reaper 1.
550 cord is parachute cord. Snipers role as intel or killing the enemy is integral to support. Intel can help the unit they’re supporting know if there are enemy troop concentrations, or obstacles. As the video stated they also call in fire support, but they best not be to close. I value targets or just neutralizing a threat can save live of friendly forces moving onto an objective.
Our eldest son's tiny high school class (by US standards, about 60 students) produced one decorated Marine Corps sniper/sniper team leader. And our son, who served on a submarine in the US Navy (nuclear power engineer, they run the nuclear power plant on tve sub). Have y'all done a reaction video to US Navy submarine service? Our son served on a Los Angeles Class sub. He has been out of the Navy for quite a few years now. The little bit he was allowed to tell us -- which wasn't much -- was very interesting. One of his last duty stations was in 🇦🇺. He didn't make it to NZ, wasn't in Australia long enough. Blessings!
I was a Sniper in Vietnam , might say Old School , While the Equip. they have is AWESOME especially the 50 Cal. I had a Rem 700 30-06, While the fancy equip is nice , You still HAVE TO KNOW the Basic's Battery's die , many times re-supply doesn't happen , We did mostly 1 and 2 man missions & You Spotter is your Backup 98% of the time & no one else is coming to help, Thats why its so important to know your Counter part VERY VERY well , know what he will do will saves your life, My Spotter & i were also Hunter trackers something that really isn't taught anymore , its sad
Footage is questionable unless it was a training mission. The guy turned his head back rapidly, flashing light from his pine needle hat. That is a no no. Never move your head or anything else quickly.
Check out the white feather during the Vietnam era. He was in most opinion the greatest at this than anyone. He had a very large bounty on his head he was so good at it. Stories has been told he lay for days sometimes with people all around him before he make his move. Movies has evan been made about this guy. The white feather
I remember it very clearly here in Oklahoma we have lots of wind here normal day is around 10 to 20 mph we don't even start worrying about it tell its hits 45 to 50 mph I had jest installed a new 16-foot garage door 10 years ago and had added 3 heavy-duty support beams on 3 of the 4 panels storm came up and sense I am a storm chaser I measured 96 MPH jest before I pulled into a car wash bay to try to keep my truck from being hammered its not the wind blowing we worry so much about its WHAT THE WIND IS BLOWING !! I was two blocks from my house when I got home the new door was folded in half, only thing stopping it was my wife's pathfinder the door was rated for 100 mph and I had added the 3 stiffeners to give the door more support If you don't like the weather here, jest wait 20 minutes it will change
Check out the story about John Hathcock. I think that is how it is spelled. He was a Vietnam sniper and held the record for the most confirmed kills until recently.
Vietnam War: Carlos "Whitefeather" Hathcock, USMC, 93 confirmed kills. Chuck Mawhinney, USMC, 103 confirmed kills, Adelbert Waldron, USA, 109 confirmed kills GWOT: Chris Kyle, USN SEAL, >160 confirmed kills All time record: Simo "White Death" Häyhä of Finland, 505 confirmed kills (at least 300 more with a submachine gun)
Hathcock was also one heck of a counter sniper and one of the first to use early night vision scopes. He was also one of the guys that helped create the sniper schools and what new sniper recrutes had to learn to survive as a sniper.
@@MichaelScheele Like I said until recently like the last 20 years. But from Vietnam until the gulf war he had the record for the most confirmed kills. I didn't say he currently holds the record.
@@sjgavenger37, Carlos Hathcock is the best known American sniper from the Vietnam War, but there were two American snipers in Vietnam who had higher confirmed kill counts. Hathcock held the record for longest sniper kill for decades. Simo Häyhä's record of confirmed kills from the Winter War (pre-WW II) will probably never be surpassed.
@@MichaelScheele I am talking AMERICAN snipers. There was a Russian WWII female sniper that had over 200 confirmed kills. Maybe I should have said American sniper.
My dad was one of the first Delta force snipers in the predecessor to Delta force (project blue light) while he was in Vietnam. Quick reaction group. He said they were not respected even by our own military and the training what is being relearned because of not having any real school after World War II. It’s come along way
Read about Carlos Hathcock. He was a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam. One of his successes involved moving slow. So slow that on a mission to take out a Vietnamese general, he moved so slow that wild animals would graze within feet of him without seeong him. Some Vietnamese soldiers passed within a few feet of him! Sometimes it took him an hour to move mere inches! Fascinating story!
You might be interested in watching a video about the late Finnish Sniper Simo Hayha. He was called "White Death" because he killed at least 500 Soviet soldiers with a rifle and some 200 more with a submachine gun in just 100 days during the Winter War between the old Soviet Union and Finland.
If you like these types of vids, there are 2 shows you should react to: Surviving the Cut and 2 Weeks in Hell. Full hours on all US special operations training, all branches.
Would love for you guys to check out Magnus Midbø training with 1% arctic Norwegian special force, French legion training boot camp (insane) & f1 2010 ABUDHABI radio rewind! All of you will get goosebumps 🔥🔥😍😍
As I teach my cyber security students, you must think like your adversary. They will have the same training, the same tools, the same discipline. They are trying to outsmart you just as you are trying to outsmart them.
you need to watch the movie Shooter with Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad its a good movie
Despite what many media shows, not all part of the military training is aggressive and brutal. The entire goal of any training is to teach certain skills troops need to do their job. Some skills are taught more like how civilians get their job training or learn things in school. There are actual schools with class rooms environment training as well as specific job training. For instance, it wouldn't make sense for a language or radio school instructor to scream in your face. Same thing for sniper school, these are not new recruits that need to be shaped into Army value. These guys are already in the Army and just there to pick up new skills their unit requires. For skill training, instructors will teach you like how teachers would teach students in school. Good training program and instructors know how to balance the effective way to transfer knowledge and effective way to expose students to the stress and pressure of the combat environment.
Some are invited to enter sniper school if they have perfect shooting scores all the time in basic training. (meaning all shots hit the bullseye, not 1 miss) I would have been asked to join sniper school in the Air Force, unfortunately I wore glasses back then, you have to have 20/20 vision without correction.
How about some reactions to American music. Michael Jackson, Elvis, Beach Boys....Louis Armstrong...Bob Dylan...Jimi Hendrix. Or British music...Beatles, Stones, Clapton...etc.
You also have to consider what you smell like ( I know it sounds odd). Just think if you had been setting by the campfire earlier or had a smoke.What kind of soap did you use when you showered and does it have a certain smell to it?
You guys should check out the marine scout sniper course. My opinion is it is much better than the army training. Its a 57 day course for training elite snipers.
Remember it's not the soldiers with the machine guns that can spray a wall of lead that's the most dangerous on the battlefield. Cuz your average Soldier is not afraid of that. That one sniper in the bush is so far away that you can't even see his muzzle flash. That's a soldier's worst nightmare. No matter where you go the only thing you can do is hide cuz you can't run and that sniper is just going to sit there and lay wait for you and even when you think that sniper is gone you stick your head out even for a split second to look around that's what second is already a split second too long and that sniper had you dead to rights before your eyes were even looking around the corner. Remember how I keep telling you guys that our capacity for killing us so great that it even frightens us sometimes? A lot of us were taught to be snipers at a very young age but either a fathers or uncles or our grandfathers. Again guarantee you on the battlefield right now there's at least 50 US snipers who get the job done with their modified deer rifle that they got from their granddaddy.....😇 angels of death we are!
You nailed it, failing them saves their own lives. If the instructor can see you, the enemy can. Not everyone can be a sniper. That's ok, a guy who isn't a great sniper might be a great demolition expert. There's room for everyone.
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We are very proud of our army snipers thanks guys
I'm going to become a Sniper when I am older
@@SNIPER.2384 go for it :)
I always wanted to be a sniper when I was a kid. So much respect for those that answer the call.
One of my professors was a Marine sniper during Desert Storm. He passed away a couple of years ago. RIP Mr. Hodak. We will never forget your service and teaching ability
Y'all should read up on Carlos 'White Feather' Hathcock, the legendary Marine sniper in Viet-Nam. His exploits were beyond legendary.
Especially given the equipment he had to work with in the 1960's, as compared to all of these now long-range shot records with modern equipment and gear. RIP Gunny!
I saw the exploits on the history channel he was the best
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My now exhubby is an army sniper. He’s also an Airborne Ranger. I remember the day he left and graduated. Look up army Ranger training , and Pathfinder school. My brother is all the above.
I wasn't a Ranger, but I did a lot of this training at Ft.Benning- I'm guessing that's where your brother trained? to the military family members👍👍
Thanks to both for their service!
Gina, is that you???!!! ROFLMAO 😂 😅🤣...
Did you get divorced because you never... got to see him 😏
My uncle too, always good talking to him
Your daughter made such a great point: you almost have to wait for/move with the wind when trying to mobilize.
in the Air Force there is a mechanic course that is called Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) for short. it deals with all the support equipment that they use to service the air planes while on the ground. it's covers electrical generation, hydraulics, pneumatic, nitrogen generation and more. during my career I have worked with special equipment for different aircraft like the SR-71 U-2, C-5, C-141, KC-135, F-4, F-14, F-15, T-38, A-10 plus more.
What bases, are you still active?
@@zeusdarkgod7727 I am retired military. I did 20 years active then 20 more working as civil service doing the same job. (AGE).
@richardkrieger8940 much respect, my first base (eielson) I was lucky enough to have several civilians in the shop that really got me off to a good start.
My 4th base was eielson south of Fairbanks, from 1983 - 1987.
@@richardkrieger8940 that be the one, I was only there for 3 years but man it was a great place to be stationed, even allowed me to go through SERE arctic training since it was taught on base, but I was to good at spuds so I spent a mass majority of my time in the truck, but thanks *completely* to the civilians it never stopped me from doing maintenance, they were my biggest advocates for being in the shop and if I got called while elbow deep in something, often times they would take care of it for me if I couldn't wrap up in time.
This brought back so many memories of my time as a US Army Sniper (Desert Storm/Shield). I Love your channel and the love you have for my country ❤️
Thank you for your service, sir. A lot of us Americans still love you soldiers.
My ship was in Desert Storm! We had ice cream every Sunday and air conditioning.
Thanks for watching this with us. I was belt-fed the exact opposite of snipers, lots of bullets in one spot but watching the schools reminds me of the good ol days
My cuzzin was a Marine sniper after the Vietnam war he enlisted for four years. One day while training he realized that if he went into combat these targets he practiced on would be human. He did his four and got out before he had to do combat. Sure taught a bunch of us cuzzins how to shoot straight Augusta Ga
My nephew Billy is in the Army & he just qualified for the Mammoth Challenge. It's a 3 day sniper/shooting challenge.
love you guys ❤️
Ghillie suits are all that. One night one of my scouts brought one to play capture the flag. He was gathering intel at an opponents HQ when they started arguing “boulder” vs “player”. The scout who insisted that what they were looking at was a boulder threw a rock at it and knocked his brother on the head.
That was pretty cool. I know a guy who was a sniper for the US Army during the Vietnam war; the stories he had were amazing.
There was an elderly many who owned a camera shop not too far from me, during WWII, he was a code breaker, he was fascinating to have conversations with. If you could find piece on code breakers, you'd probably really enjoy it.
I love y’all’s videos. It’s so cool you are teaching your kids so many things at a young age. It will definitely benefit them later in life!
Becoming a marine sniper is even harder as you have to do air, land, and sea sniping training. Two of which are from moving platforms. The water sniping is the hardest as you constantly adjust on the fly to get the shot and it’s rough. A marine sniper took out that Somali pirate several years back from a patrol boat while his target was small and barely poked his head out but the shot came and people were rescued.
US Navy SEAL Snipers . If SEAL Snipers hadn't been on scene their swimmers would have swam to the lifeboat and shot them in the head with .45 pistols or 12 gauge shotguns .
to andy luo = Army Vet Here of Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. to answer you...Just like Black guys have bigger P...kers than White guys!? Its why every year there is the multi-service Sniper Comp.....Rarely has the Marines won it just like AMU at Camp Perry! Dude....just like the better Marine Commercials....Marines are best at Boasting so everyone thinks a Marine is better than Army or even a Ranger! LOL Example: Clint Eastwoods Movie Heartbreak Ridge ... In Granada...Those were Objectives that the RANGERS TOOK!!!! Not the Marines!!!
I went to Sniper School in 1993 (Top Gun/Distinguished Honor Grad!) This Video hardly showed anything thing of what's in the whole school. Army Advanced Sniper course is SOTEC Sniper. So Marine, stop thinking this is just the only training besides what you learn at the Units. It's like your belief that Every Marine is trained as an infantry Man! If you actually go to a fighting unit, you quickly discover quick how much you Actually do not know or are not ready for combat! If they put every piece of knowledge and all the manuals from calling in fire, calling in a Medivac, rigging a Helicopter for a Fast Rope or Rappel Mission, Boat Ops/Scout Swimmer/Parachuting/ Pathfinder/Tracking/Medical/Recon/Radios/Weapons/principles of patrolling, writing a Brief back/OPORDER and I'm just touching a very few things. You could safely say you never feel like you know enough and what you do learn could almost equal to a Doctorates Degree!
Look Brother/Sister, I have nothing but respect for you serving, and I have worked with Marines/Marine Recon Units. You are my brothers/sisters and we have done quite a bit of time at war. So, let's stop with the interservice rivalry and we're better, because I want you to know, if you were in contact and needed a QRF, I would be first on the Helo to come get you home. Yea our uniform doesn't look as pretty as yours, but I know how to fight, and I know I can get you home! I assume you would do the same for me and my Army buddies.
Thats all I'm going to say. God Bless you and Love you and you all. Its time we band together because we are not enemies. The people who send us away for lies/money/bogus policies/drugs.... and not freedom, are our enemies! WE ... WE ARE AMERICA!!! NOT THEM!
I was in a sniper section as a scout for a long time in the army. As you said, we won’t learn most of the above that marines snipers do through their course of instruction. I will say though, the army was really good about once you graduated sniper school and went back to your unit you would do allllll sorts of training and cross training. We would do high angle shoots from helos with the coast guard, we would have our amphibious section learn from marines and train with them on use and Infil of their zodiacs and how’s to employ snipers in those situations etc…
Great video, as always.
Brought to mind a meme I saw that went:
Snipers in video games-Insert, shoot, extract
Snipers in real life-I've been here for 43 hours...and I just sh*t myself.
There are many top notch, tough schools in the military...this is definitely one of them.
I did this kind of camouflaging as a teenager WITHOUT a guile suit, just wearing standard BDUs during the wargames my friends and I used to have on weekends. I have actually had people step on me and not know they did it. I have literally have had people on the other side of a dirt mound, (3 feet away) with tree growth, and thought I was simply a shadow in the moonlight. These techniques are more common sense than a learned skill if you use logical thinking.
Another wargame when my team went up against another in my hometown I was camoed up and laying still behind a fallen tree (no more than 12 inches around) and created an ambush location. One member of the other team tried flanking around and ended up crawling directly in front of me, no more than 6 feet away, and when the moment was right and he stretched out his arm to crawl, I lit him up right into the side of his chest. After about four or five point blank shots from a CO2 pistol in his side, he gave up. He also cheated by telling his buddy where I was because a few minutes later his buddy came "stealth" walking near me yet kept his eyes on my location at all times and when he finally stopped about 20 yards away and pointed his pistol at me, I lit him up also. Fired 15 shots at him until he ran away.
Way back in my early U.S. Army career, in 1972 on a Ranger Long-Range Recon team, one of the very first things we were taught as fng’s (newbies) was the factors of recognition against camouflage, needed to save our lives when on patrol. There were 8 factors of recognition that you had to always consider could be used to spot you, and I can still recall them today some 50 years later. BTW, also helpful for hunting too! :-). Those were position, shape, shadow, color, contrast, shine, texture, and the biggie is movement. These factors must be considered in camouflage to insure that 1 or more does not reveal the location. Good stuff NZ’s - keep them coming.
My brother was a sniper in the 82nd Airborne. So proud of him. Good reaction fam!
Good show, movement is the key, it can take hours to move just 100 meters, stay low, move slow and don't silhouette yourself or equipment. You guys should try this one day and do a reaction on each other now that your summer is coming soon it might be fun to watch... My money is on Denz to win, he's so sneaky!
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Saw video on sniper school training. Started out with a view of a meadow at edge of forest. Suddenly 10 guys stand up. Couldn't tell they were there til they stod. Another part was while stalking, 1 sniper was spotted by instructor because he missed camo on a very small part of 1 glove. Have you checked out the record distance for kill shot? Think is now held by either a Brit or Canadian. Over 1.5 MILES. They have to figure in distance, wind,curve of the Earth, bullet drop,humidity & whole lot of other factors. Vid I saw said sniper had to aim 17 m to 1 side of target for hit.
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Great selection for a reaction.
This is completely off topic but something you may find interesting. If you look at 11:55 you can see beyond the soldier a pine sapling with very long needles. This is a longleaf pine with needles that normally grow from 12 to 14 inches long. It is a tree that can easily grow to 50 meters tall but does so slowly. It is native to the southeast and was harvested heavily for decades for the purpose of paper and lumber until it was on the verge of extinction because when it was harvested, it was replaced with faster-growing slash pine like the saplings you see just this side of the soldier. In the last 15 years or so, there has been an effort to bring back the longleaf pines and they are starting to flourish again.
Sometimes there is a time limit.. But one good tactic for the stalking part of the course is A Delayed Start. The instructors will begin at a different time as you. Not starting when they expect you gives you an edge. Also, if possible. Gage where the instructors are. More that the target. Being spotted is worse than being late or inaccurate.
As soon as he said "I bet we'll see a lot of camo" I said "and ghillie suits!" and the video starts with a ghillie suit.
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That looks like Ft Bragg terrain. Long leaf lines and scrub oaks!! I was born and raised in Fayetteville NC, and still live nearby.
Here’s a funny factoid I heard when I was at Benning. The Sniper schoolhouse is on “Good Luck Road” or something like that.
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I hope Denzi was taking lessons for when he shows up in Atlanta's Kitchen videos
I spent 26 years in the Army, Airborne, Ranger, Special Forces, and Sniper qualified. Also did 2 years as a cadre at the Sniper School at Ft. Benning. The one thing they don't say is that as cadre we he have real world experience and when the students are donning their cammo the one thing most of them forget is that there isn't much we haven't seen, so the challenge becomes placing the cammo well enough that you not only blend in with the surroundings but also well enough that it's not something cadre have seen 1000 times.
SFC pharr the guy at 5:17 was my drill sergeant when I went through basic training
Hi from Michigan! great channel content.
A little trivia Australians Army refer to the Ghille Suit as a Yowie Suit after the Yeti
We use Ghille suits when we hunt turkeys
here in the US
You might want to check out a video on Carlos Hathcock - a legendary US Marine Corps sniper that pulled some amazing sniping feats during the Vietnam war. I don't have any specific videos in mind, but I'm sure you can find a good one with a TH-cam search.
93 confirmed kills . Many more probably but unconfirmed . He was a humble man from Arkansas , shooting to put food on the table . He didn't want to harm anyone , and felt that his particular skill set was his contribution to save his brothers in the war .
10/10 thumbnail, excellent cam & concealment
A gunny suit, body paint, and nerf gun for the boy for Christmas - the dog will be terrified.
Very interesting! I feel so bad though, for missing the live stream I didn't know y'all were going have 8 days ago. Love your channel ! From South Dakota USA
“Dig your hole, dig a ditch!!” Always the best advice for a war fighter…kinda off topic to snipers strategic techniques and missions but a common practice..
My Dad trained in Alaska way back in like the late 1940s and he told us for the actual shooting part they had to strip down to their long John's and lay on the snow and ice for their target practice he said it did not take him long to get the target dead on!
One of the most famous US snipers did a high profile sniper stalk while deployed during the Vietnam War. If I remember correctly, he belly crawled three days to get into position in an open field to make his final shot. He was ultimately successful and it’s one of his most notable kills.
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If that was Ft Stewart Georgia I was stationed there for three years. During our PLDC training there we did plenty of exercises in those woods and swamps. The one that made me just a tad jumpy was the night land navigation in the swamps and woods. Alligators everywhere. The sniper school was down the road a ways from us
Denz you should make some kitchen gilley suits to help with your treat raids when Atlanta cooks.
That’s an awesome idea!!!
Damn, it’s crazy all the stuff these people go through to become a sniper.
The human eye is drawn to movement. Especially if it's inconsistent with the ambient environment. This just goes back to when humans were on the menu. Any movement that wasn't "normal" could be indicative of something that wants to eat you.
What about insects, bugs, things that want to share that gillie suit with you. Anybody that's spent time in the woods knows repellent goes only so far, it can also give off an odor. Swatting at mosquitoes could to lead to swatting at bullets. Wild life is going to react to your presence. Flushing birds, background noise suddenly stops, things run.
My brother was a sniper for the 101st Airborne during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He will tell stories of his time in the infantry, and he will talk about some of the horrible stuff he saw in the 101st scouts. But my brother doesn’t talk about being a sniper. There are no stories he tells. I remember a time at Thanksgiving dinner and my nephew asked “uncle Mike, did you ever have to shoot a kid?” And his dad, my other brother, that was in the 101st with him during the war, said “Son we don’t ask those questions!” The tone in my youngest brothers voice, while not loud, was understood. Cool fact my brothers call sign (I was Naval Aircrew, so that’s what I call it, I don’t know what the Army calls it) was Reaper 1.
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550 cord is parachute cord. Snipers role as intel or killing the enemy is integral to support. Intel can help the unit they’re supporting know if there are enemy troop concentrations, or obstacles. As the video stated they also call in fire support, but they best not be to close. I value targets or just neutralizing a threat can save live of friendly forces moving onto an objective.
N-Zedders? Learn something new every day. :) Great vids.
Best thumbnail yet!
Atlanta is right. You move when the wind moves the vegetation.
Our eldest son's tiny high school class (by US standards, about 60 students) produced one decorated Marine Corps sniper/sniper team leader. And our son, who served on a submarine in the US Navy (nuclear power engineer, they run the nuclear power plant on tve sub).
Have y'all done a reaction video to US Navy submarine service? Our son served on a Los Angeles Class sub. He has been out of the Navy for quite a few years now. The little bit he was allowed to tell us -- which wasn't much -- was very interesting. One of his last duty stations was in 🇦🇺. He didn't make it to NZ, wasn't in Australia long enough.
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I was a Sniper in Vietnam , might say Old School , While the Equip. they have is AWESOME especially the 50 Cal. I had a Rem 700 30-06, While the fancy equip is nice , You still HAVE TO KNOW the Basic's Battery's die , many times re-supply doesn't happen , We did mostly 1 and 2 man missions & You Spotter is your Backup 98% of the time & no one else is coming to help, Thats why its so important to know your Counter part VERY VERY well , know what he will do will saves your life, My Spotter & i were also Hunter trackers something that really isn't taught anymore , its sad
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Footage is questionable unless it was a training mission. The guy turned his head back rapidly, flashing light from his pine needle hat. That is a no no. Never move your head or anything else quickly.
Check out the white feather during the Vietnam era. He was in most opinion the greatest at this than anyone. He had a very large bounty on his head he was so good at it. Stories has been told he lay for days sometimes with people all around him before he make his move. Movies has evan been made about this guy. The white feather
I remember it very clearly here in Oklahoma we have lots of wind here normal day is around 10 to 20 mph we don't even start worrying about it tell its hits 45 to 50 mph
I had jest installed a new 16-foot garage door 10 years ago and had added 3 heavy-duty support beams on 3 of the 4 panels storm came up and sense I am a storm chaser I measured 96 MPH jest before I pulled into a car wash bay to try to keep my truck from being hammered its not the wind blowing we worry so much about its WHAT THE WIND IS BLOWING !! I was two blocks from my house when I got home the new door was folded in half, only thing stopping it was my wife's pathfinder the door was rated for 100 mph and I had added the 3 stiffeners to give the door more support
If you don't like the weather here, jest wait 20 minutes it will change
would love to see you guys do the New Zealand military
Check out the story about John Hathcock. I think that is how it is spelled. He was a Vietnam sniper and held the record for the most confirmed kills until recently.
Vietnam War: Carlos "Whitefeather" Hathcock, USMC, 93 confirmed kills. Chuck Mawhinney, USMC, 103 confirmed kills, Adelbert Waldron, USA, 109 confirmed kills
GWOT: Chris Kyle, USN SEAL, >160 confirmed kills
All time record: Simo "White Death" Häyhä of Finland, 505 confirmed kills (at least 300 more with a submachine gun)
Hathcock was also one heck of a counter sniper and one of the first to use early night vision scopes. He was also one of the guys that helped create the sniper schools and what new sniper recrutes had to learn to survive as a sniper.
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Like I said until recently like the last 20 years. But from Vietnam until the gulf war he had the record for the most confirmed kills. I didn't say he currently holds the record.
@@sjgavenger37, Carlos Hathcock is the best known American sniper from the Vietnam War, but there were two American snipers in Vietnam who had higher confirmed kill counts. Hathcock held the record for longest sniper kill for decades.
Simo Häyhä's record of confirmed kills from the Winter War (pre-WW II) will probably never be surpassed.
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I am talking AMERICAN snipers. There was a Russian WWII female sniper that had over 200 confirmed kills. Maybe I should have said American sniper.
My dad was one of the first Delta force snipers in the predecessor to Delta force (project blue light) while he was in Vietnam. Quick reaction group. He said they were not respected even by our own military and the training what is being relearned because of not having any real school after World War II. It’s come along way
I was confused, I was like, “where are they in the thumbnail?” good video as always
They most always work in pairs one shooter one spotter and then some times a third for team security
I haven't watched the video yet but I dropped a like for the thumbnail alone lol
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Hi from maine. Keep it up
Read about Carlos Hathcock. He was a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam. One of his successes involved moving slow. So slow that on a mission to take out a Vietnamese general, he moved so slow that wild animals would graze within feet of him without seeong him. Some Vietnamese soldiers passed within a few feet of him! Sometimes it took him an hour to move mere inches! Fascinating story!
You might be interested in watching a video about the late Finnish Sniper Simo Hayha. He was called "White Death" because he killed at least 500 Soviet soldiers with a rifle and some 200 more with a submachine gun in just 100 days during the Winter War between the old Soviet Union and Finland.
I didn’t know they changed it. All my stalks were done solo. It’s going to be much harder to pass sniper school now
The thumbnail is legendary lol
I was an army sniper back in the middle 80s through 1994 this video actually shows one of the easier exercises for me
Did you guys sit out of the thumbnail as a nod to camouflage? That’s clever lmao
Y’all need to check out, Carlos Hathcock., USMC Vietnam.
If you like these types of vids, there are 2 shows you should react to: Surviving the Cut and 2 Weeks in Hell. Full hours on all US special operations training, all branches.
Would love for you guys to check out Magnus Midbø training with 1% arctic Norwegian special force, French legion training boot camp (insane) & f1 2010 ABUDHABI radio rewind! All of you will get goosebumps 🔥🔥😍😍
As I teach my cyber security students, you must think like your adversary. They will have the same training, the same tools, the same discipline. They are trying to outsmart you just as you are trying to outsmart them.
If you are reacting to the US Snipers then check out Carlos Hathcock and Vietnam and where it all began.
Yes so happy to see you doing military again 🙌still need to finish boot camps for airforce , navy and coast guard
you need to watch the movie Shooter with Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad its a good movie
Despite what many media shows, not all part of the military training is aggressive and brutal. The entire goal of any training is to teach certain skills troops need to do their job. Some skills are taught more like how civilians get their job training or learn things in school. There are actual schools with class rooms environment training as well as specific job training. For instance, it wouldn't make sense for a language or radio school instructor to scream in your face. Same thing for sniper school, these are not new recruits that need to be shaped into Army value. These guys are already in the Army and just there to pick up new skills their unit requires. For skill training, instructors will teach you like how teachers would teach students in school. Good training program and instructors know how to balance the effective way to transfer knowledge and effective way to expose students to the stress and pressure of the combat environment.
You guys should watch stuff on US special operations
Loved the thumbnail lol 😂 and yes i did
Look at one for navy snipers. It's different, for sure.
Top level thumbnail 😂
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Throw the Navy some love 😂
Some are invited to enter sniper school if they have perfect shooting scores all the time in basic training. (meaning all shots hit the bullseye, not 1 miss) I would have been asked to join sniper school in the Air Force, unfortunately I wore glasses back then, you have to have 20/20 vision without correction.
Saw you all in the thumbnail
6:04 Peyton Mannings on a new career path 😂😂
How about some reactions to American music. Michael Jackson, Elvis, Beach Boys....Louis Armstrong...Bob Dylan...Jimi Hendrix. Or British music...Beatles, Stones, Clapton...etc.
Regardless of the branch of military... Sniper school is very hard
You also have to consider what you smell like ( I know it sounds odd). Just think if you had been setting by the campfire earlier or had a smoke.What kind of soap did you use when you showered and does it have a certain smell to it?
What you eat and drink affect how you smell as well.
You guys should check out the marine scout sniper course. My opinion is it is much better than the army training. Its a 57 day course for training elite snipers.
You should definitely watch longest outfield throws by mlb players they are stunning I really recommend it keep up the great videos
the army calls em scout snipers, marines are forced recon, navy is the seals and they are supreme experts in their craft great choice
Look at the one about Vietnam War American sniper "white feather" he was one of the best if not best sniper in history
Remember it's not the soldiers with the machine guns that can spray a wall of lead that's the most dangerous on the battlefield. Cuz your average Soldier is not afraid of that. That one sniper in the bush is so far away that you can't even see his muzzle flash. That's a soldier's worst nightmare. No matter where you go the only thing you can do is hide cuz you can't run and that sniper is just going to sit there and lay wait for you and even when you think that sniper is gone you stick your head out even for a split second to look around that's what second is already a split second too long and that sniper had you dead to rights before your eyes were even looking around the corner. Remember how I keep telling you guys that our capacity for killing us so great that it even frightens us sometimes? A lot of us were taught to be snipers at a very young age but either a fathers or uncles or our grandfathers. Again guarantee you on the battlefield right now there's at least 50 US snipers who get the job done with their modified deer rifle that they got from their granddaddy.....😇 angels of death we are!