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Remember a couple of years ago when a group of USMC snipers was killed, apparently from close range and apparently by traitorous Iraqis? Looks like their brother snipers got payback for them:
http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/20066223157
Darkhorse snipers kill insurgent sniper, recover stolen Marine sniper rifle
June 20, 2006; Submitted on: 06/22/2006 03:01:57 AM ; Story ID#: 20066223157
By Cpl. Mark Sixbey, 1st Marine Division
CAMP HABBANIYAH, Iraq - Lt. Col. Patrick Looney, battalion commander for 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, holds the last round chambered in a Marine M-40A1 sniper rifle, which spent two years in enemy hands. A 21-year-old sniper from Sniper Section Four killed the insurgent June 16. The Darkhorse battalion plans to mount the round on a plaque to present to snipers of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment Magnificent Bastards, who lost four Marines and the rifle in Ramadi in June 2004.
CAMP HABBANIYAH, Iraq (June 20, 2006) -- Scout snipers from 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment killed an enemy sniper and recovered a Marine sniper rifle lost nearly two years ago during a mission near Habbaniyah June 16.
The rifle was the one formerly used by four Marines of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment who were killed on a rooftop in Ramadi June 21, 2004.
Sniper Section Four was in a hide when the spotter observed a military-aged male inside a nearby parked car videotaping a passing patrol of amphibious assault vehicles. The Marines saw a rifle stock by the insurgent’s side.
“We were in the right place at the right time,” said Sgt. Kevin Homestead an infantryman from K Company serving as a spotter for the sniper team that day.
They first radioed the passing Marines and told them they were being watched by an enemy sniper and to stay low. The insurgent then sealed his own fate by preparing the weapon. The 21-year-old Marine sniper, who declined to be interviewed – aimed in at the gunman’s head behind the rear-side window.
He recited a mantra in his head. Breathe, relax, aim, squeeze, surprise.
The enemy sniper died with the gun in his lap.
They dialed K Company – or Samurai 6 – and reported the target was dead.
“We then saw another military-aged male ... enter the passenger side door,” said Homestead, 26, from Ontario, Ore. “He was surprised to see the other shooter was killed.”
The second insurgent scurried around the car and jumped in the driver’s seat.
With the sniper now spotting for him, Homestead aimed in with his M-4 carbine and put three bullets in the driver before he could start the car.
A squad of K Company Marines came to the position and saw the sniper dead and the driver shot three times. The driver died as soon as the squad arrived on scene.
They pulled out the sniper rifle and immediately recognized that it was an M-40A1, the same used by the snipers of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment in 2004.
The trunk of the car contained a pistol, a hand grenade, dozens of 7.62 mm rounds, multiple license plates and several camcorder tapes.
“When we saw the scope and stock, we knew what it was,” Homestead said.
The rifle was missing for nearly two years – almost to the day. Marines believed the insurgent they killed, or those closely associated with him, had it all along. It is unknown how many times it was used against U.S. and Iraqi forces.
“He was a very good sniper,” Homestead said. “But he got cocky and slipped up and it was our time to catch that.”
The weapon came full circle, having originally belonged to the Darkhorse battalion in Operation Iraqi Freedom I, who turned it over to the “Magnificent Bastards” of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment. Coincidentally, a Darkhorse sniper killed the insurgent sniper, and a former Magnificent Bastard killed the spotter.
Darkhorse battalion had been dealing with sporadic sniper attacks since arriving in Iraq in January. Now, Marines have one less sniper to worry about.
“It’s very rewarding to take them out the way we did,” said Lt. Col. Patrick G. Looney, the battalion commander. “Doubly rewarding that it’s a 2/4 sniper rifle, even though it won’t bring back the four Marines who were killed that day.”
Triple rewarding that it won’t be used on another Marine or soldier, he added.
“The credit has to go to Sgt. Homestead and the Sniper Section leader who made the kill,” said 1st Lt. J. H. Cusack, Sniper Platoon commander. “It was more than being in the right place at the right time.
“It was the culmination of all of the training and planning the section leader had done up until that moment,” Cusak added. “Being absolutely alert and focused to detect a small clue during a period of apparent inactivity and a perfectly executed shot.”
Darkhorse snipers have since removed the powder and primer from the last 7.62 mm round chambered in the recaptured rifle. They will mount it on a plaque and present it to the Magnificent Bastards’ snipers to honor their lost Marines.
Looney said the ability to give some retribution for their loss makes the day a “grand-slam home run for sniper ops.” He credited the snipers’ professionalism and attitude in accomplishing the mission throughout their area of operations.
“I would say that the guys who shot are typical of the Darkhorse snipers,” said Looney, 43, from Oceanside, Calif. “They’re very proficient, very modest, very busy. They’re out there almost daily doing great things in this AO and our old AO. The fact that they’re taking a back seat and letting the battalion reap the benefits is typical of the kind of Marines they are.”
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Cool story. I would love to see what was on the captured camcorder tapes. I bet they got lots of good intel off of them.
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Originally posted by (http://www.purepwnage.com/images/e11preview2.jpg)
did i heard someone say snipers???
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Remember... Lead your reciever.
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I can't help but laugh:rofl Bastard had it coming, I especially like the end of the mantra, SURPRISE!
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LOL mars
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Originally posted by nirvana
I can't help but laugh:rofl Bastard had it coming, I especially like the end of the mantra, SURPRISE!
I beleive the surprise portion has to deal with how they are taught marksmenship. Every round you should should surpise you when it fires. When I shot the M16 it was the same way. YOu squeeze the trigger you listen to the amount of "creaks" it has and count them off. It actually fires in between them and should be a surprise to you. That lets you know you arent anticipating the shot or jerking the trigger.
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Just proves, what comes around, goes around!
Semper Fi!!
"I am nothing without my rifle, my rifle is nothing without me....."
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Originally posted by Japanese guy in a joke that i forget the setup for, but remember the punchline
SUPPLIES!!!
:D :D :rofl :rofl :mad:
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See, someone else thought it was kinda funny too ^^^^^^^
But I get what you're saying Sandman.
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This is the kind of news I like. WTG Sniper Section Four
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Originally posted by nirvana
See, someone else thought it was kinda funny too ^^^^^^^
But I get what you're saying Sandman.
Huh? :huh
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Originally posted by mars01
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Always did the same route out of DXR from Executive or Arrow down to the TZ then the jersey side corridor.
Anyways - best friend of mine lost his brother in #2. I lost 3 friends in #1, 1 guy at Windows of the World + a friends parents on the American flight.
I'm abusing a promise I made myself never to quote bush, but the other night he did has a particularly enlightening thought when addressing something going on over in Germany - some news clip. '9/11 for the rest of the world was an event, and forgotten. For Americans, and New Yorkers in particular - it was a change of thinking.'
As for the guy who got cap'd in the head - **** him.
Wolf
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He should have cut a hole in the back of his trunk and sniped from there, I hear that works.
That had to feel pretty good to the sniper det that got him though.
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Really dont see what killing an Iraqi sniper has to do with 911 though.
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If it wasnt for 9/11 we wouldnt be in Iraq.
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Originally posted by Pongo
He should have cut a hole in the back of his trunk and sniped from there, I hear that works.
For a while. Then you get caught and get the death sentence.
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Really dont see what killing an Iraqi sniper has to do with 911 though.
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Originally posted by mentalguy
If it wasnt for 9/11 we wouldnt be in Iraq.
Thats quite an assumption.
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Originally posted by Morpheus
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Originally posted by Morpheus
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lol
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wow, how screwed up is that:confused:
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lol someone is a little testy.
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Pongo I have responded a couple times to you but the moron mod wont let any of my posts stand so you'll have to stay in BC and pretend to know what you are talking about.
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