Name 25 of your favorite snipers of all time.

[skygazer]

I swear that's how I saw that subject line. :rofl:

[jmowreader]

1. I only have one favorite sniper of all time.

My platoon sergeant at Fort Campbell--we called him Swing--was a sniper in Vietnam. He told us he had 250 confirmed kills in six years in the shit.

Naturally, none of us really believed him...fortunately for him, the 1/3 Air Defense Artillery's motor sergeant knew him from Vietnam. "Oh yeah. At LEAST 250 people."

When he wasn't shooting people, he played a mean jazz sax, and he taught me to drive a jeep while we were at Fort Stewart on an exercise. I was on a four-man team and I was the only one who wasn't smoking weed, so I guess Swing figured that the one guy who wasn't stoned should drive.

Swing also liked to play this special little game of his when we went to the field. The game was, "Get me any part of an M-60 machine gun you possibly can." He liked to play it with our CI pukes because they checked field sites after units had jumped out of them, and they'd find him parts. In two years, we managed to get him everything except the gun itself--we even got him a traverse & elevation mount for a tripod, which is even rarer than the gun itself; my unit had ten M-60s and no T&E mounts. (He just wanted one. Thought it would be neat to have one.)

[skygazer]

3. Sounds like a cool guy

And an amazing record. :hi:

[jmowreader]

7. This guy got even better

About a month before I left Campbell, Swing (who by then was the division COMSEC Custodian--this is normally a job for an officer, but they gave it to Swing even though he was a staff sergeant) told me he had stopped smoking weed. He FINALLY fulfilled his ultimate mission.

It seems that his unit was stationed on an airfield in Vietnam that belonged to the 1st Air Cav and he awoke to the sound of helicopters several times a night. At his base camp he decided that his ultimate mission in life would be to either shoot down a helicopter or learn to fly one.

Unfortunately for him, the North Vietnamese didn't have any helicopters nor did the Vietcong. And you can't go around shooting down your own side's helicopters. It's expensive to learn to fly helicopters in the civilian world and the army didn't have any slots for him to go into when he reenlisted, so he went MI and worked at getting a flight packet approved. It was.

Right now, he's probably flying an air ambulance for a hospital somewhere.

[trof]

2. That made me laugh out loud.

And I have no idea why.
Thanks anyway.

[skygazer]

4. It did me too when I did it

Laughing is a good thing. :hi:

[SPKrazy]

5. This d00d I Knew Once

I was working as a counselor in a treatment program and this d00d had been a sniper in Beirut back in the 80's. He was pretty cool and the problem was that he couldn't talk about anything he'd done really in detail and it drove him crazy.

So he did what he had to do and he got better.

:shrug:


But he was apparently a very good sniper... 50 cal :P

[mvd]

6. LOL

But then you would know, I'm anti-gun. :hi:

[cloudbase]

8. Charles Whitman,

but only because he had a song named after him.

[deepthought42]

9. There's only one sniper in my life!

My college roommate. ;) LOL