Lessons from the DC Killers

[rpm]

Originally posted by mrblack
Probably the most itellegent thing ever said on this board.

That's sig material if there ever was.

[rpm]

Originally posted by mrblack
Did not have to much time for the dictionary.
I was to busy trianing(sic) for the defence(sic) of my country and people like you .

I hered thay gots sum reel good GED corses in the Armee. But I jist looks at the piktures.

[Thrawn]

mrblack, do you have any proof that you served as a sniper?  Because you don't sound very convincing.  You write and sound like a 15 year old wannabe.

[Creamo]

Originally posted by mrblack
As a fomer Army sniper (bravo-4)
I can tell you these two mallett heads where not snipers!!
Snipers Take a life to save lives.
That is our creed.
Sounds silly but that really is how we feel about it.
If you can take out one guy with an 50CAL MG then you may have saved a whole platton of men.
These idiots where just cowards with guns thats all nothing more.
They deserve to be HUNG!:mad:

lol

[straffo]

I bet 10 € for Saw !

[Dune]

Do you guys remember when WWIIOL first came out and everyone ran around saying how they were gonna sniper everybody?

[Fishu]

Originally posted by Dune
Do you guys remember when WWIIOL first came out and everyone ran around saying how they were gonna sniper everybody?

They were the ones who probably first went back to CS

[miko2d]

Fishu: I thought those who can plug you from 10 yards and get out as if they werent there were assassins

 The original word "assasin" came from "hashishin" or something like that - suicidal killers that served as an enforcement arm of a religious sect based in the mountains of Persia untill being destroyed by mongols, if I remember correctly.

 The original "assasins" were not interested in "getting out" but in murdering their intended victim and dying in order to get their heavenly reward - virgins, etc.
 During "training" they were shown a "sneak peak" at the heaven that expected them with the help of hashish (variant of opium) and were possibly doped on hashish while killing.


 If anyone cares to know more about military snipers, there is FM 23-10 awailable on the web.


mrblack: ...in combat the sniper is a force multiplier.
he is a valuable tool to be used to help save the lives of his comrades in arms.

 So is a torturer - another valuable, if underappreciated, military speciality. The torturers save quite a lot of lives too - by gaining valuable information about ambushes, location of the enemy, etc. And they cannot even boast about their service like snipers do...

 It's not the label on a person's speciality that carries value connotation - it's the cause that is being served by his actions.


davidpt40: Humans *can* kill other humans, but its not an ingrained or evolved trait.

 Right. When a human turns murderer voluntarily, it is usually a result of psychoticism - a largely inheritable trait of character which runs a scale from mild psychotic to sociopath.
 Usually it is the action of a state that makes humans kill other humans.

 miko

[Curval]

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Never in the "field" but definitely in the service... ten years USN.

You were in the navy?  Aww isn't that cute.  Did your husband serve too?

hehe

J/K dude...I just love that line...it's normally reserved for Coast Guard guys...but the navy works well in this thread.  

[mrblack]

Originally posted by Thrawn
mrblack, do you have any proof that you served as a sniper?  Because you don't sound very convincing.  You write and sound like a 15 year old wannabe.

If I thought you where worth me posting  personal info I would post my DD-214

Or do you know what a DD-214 is?

[miko2d]

Being a canadian, it would be quite excusable for Thrawn not to know that DD-214 is a Military Discharge document.

 But I guess Thrawn did get his answer anyway.
 mrblack, you do not have enough smarts, patience and attention to details to be even a common forum fraud, let alone a sniper.

 miko

[mrblack]

What would you like to know?
I can tell you that you must be between the pay grades of E-3 And E-7. And 11-b = Infantry
The course when I took it in 1977 was 4 weeks in length.
I was 19 years of age at the time.
Just ask me any question pertaining to sniper training in that era and I will answer it for you.
Thats the best I can do.
And In the long run I really Have nothing to prove to you anyway

[mrblack]

Originally posted by miko2d
Being a canadian, it would be quite excusable for Thrawn not to know that DD-214 is a Military Discharge document.

 But I guess Thrawn did get his answer anyway.
 mrblack, you do not have enough smarts, patience and attention to details to be even a common forum fraud, let alone a sniper.

 miko

Go ahead smart guy ask me any question you like on the subject.
I will shoot you down(pardon the pun).

[medicboy]

Mr black, you will have to forgive these people most of them are 15yo boys who think that they rule the world because they know how to do a Google search...     There are a few questions though:  

 Most real snipers wouldn't be here arguing with a bunch of nerds braging about their job in the army.  So why are you here?  Do you like to fly also?  If so thats cool.

We get a bunch of people who talk a lot of smack and most have grown cynical of anyone that says they actualy did something like this.    

So, what rifle did you train on?

If you are what you say you are for your service to our country.

Oh ya, I agree completely with your take on the DC shooters.

[mrblack]

Thx Medicboy.
LOL Im also an EMT LOL.
I trainded on the M-21 wich was a modified version of the m-14.
I responded to this thread to help educate what a Sniper is .
And to help the general public know that a real sniper would never shoot unarmed civilians.
The SWS sniper weapons system used today is the M-24.
Witch is based on the remington m700 bolt action.
And then there is the M82-A1 barret semi auto 50cal.