Does a sniper participate in close quarters activities like door

Yes? They're still infantrymen. They're not going to spend all their lives lying still in a ghillie suit.

No. They spend all their lives lying still in a ghillie suit.

Depends

Do they need to rank up to get more powerful sniper rifles and weapon attachments?

>>28729464
Snipers are a legend and don't actually exist.

>>28729464
Ofcourse not, snipers don't even see combat i'm pretty sure if one busted through my door right now I coul-

>>28729464
Nope, just sit in the TOC all day asking "can I snipe sniperly with my sniper rifle yet?".

>>28730137
Yeah, this right here tb-

>>28729464
Yes, but only in buildings above 8000 feet ASL. Any lower and their flying saucers stop functioning.

>>28730137
>>28730166
Newfags can't even do it ri

>>28730166
>>28730137
Fuck off with your infantile le reddit oh no a sniper shot me and i was able to somehow do the captcha and click post despite ending a word in half arent i so funny maymay. Seriously just fuc

I'm looking out my window right now. Snipers are shi

>>28730202
What is this, a Candle Jack threa

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>>28730213

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>>28730213
oh shit i see the sni

SNIPERS ARE KIND OF LIKE ARTILLERY IN THAT THEY OPERATE AT LONG RANGE. IF THEY GET INTO CQB, SOMEONE FUCKED UP.

>>28730230
CANDLE JACK
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>>28730213
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fuc

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>>28729464
>>28729464
I'll answer your question OP.

Snipers in the conventional sense (non-SOF units) are soldiers who make up half of a sniper and reconnaissance platoon. They do not belong to "line" companies and instead are tasked out to fulfill the battalions needs. The life and job description of snipers changes as much as it does for regular infantrymen based on what the battlespace and enemy movements dictate. As one anon said previously, snipers are infantrymen and there is no MOS in either the USMC or US Army for them. They are infantrymen first and foremost and can fulfill that role just like anyone else.

That being said, for the most part they will work as overwatch for line company operations, assist the recon section in observation, or set up SKTs (small kill teams) in areas with known enemy activity. Almost all snipers will not hold that title for long enough to avoid line infantry assignment. Like being a SAW gunner, snipers are just soldiers who were selected or passed some kind of test to get into their section.

Cris Kyle supposedly did during Fallujuh. No idea if it had any truth behind it though

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>>28730094
What do you have in mind? A FAMAS?

>>28729464
>Does a soldier with a long range precision rifle trained to take aimed shots up to 1000 yards away participate in close quarters activities like door kicking, breach and clear?

fug i dunno mang

>>28730388
720 no scope all day nigga

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>>28730244
that's hot

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>>28729464
>>28730328
i guess that settles it.
can we have a sniper rifle/DMR thread?

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>>28730544
ok

shit, did you guys hea-

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Not quite sure what this qualifies as, but they gave it a scope so fuckit.

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you now remember this rifle

Only the experienced ones. You've got to run special grenades x3,stopping power, deeper penetration and a golden deagle as secondary.

>>28730858

anti-material payload rifle, or anti-objective rifle.

also known the dislocator. recoil is 60% more than a .50BMG.

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>>28730865
All sniper rifles should be made of wood

>>28730858
20mm lockpick

>>28730328
I could swear the Marines have an MOS number for scout sniper.

CANDLE JACK CONFIR

>>28730858
It's a short-barrel 20mm Fuck You Cannon.

You all now want one.

>>28730919
oooh sounds fun
thanks btw

>>28730920

That's more of a DMR.

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>>28730920
i kind of agree but i can see both sides of the argument
wood looks nice but wood plus damp environment can cause issues
polymer/synthetic doesn't care about water

>>28730951
0317

>>28730968
>>28730933

25mm, not 20mm.

>>28731041
anyway, 5 more reasons to want it

>>28731033
>polymer/synthetic doesn't care about water
tell that to the VP9

I keep hearing these faint gunshots but I don't see where they-

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>>28731033
yeah i know...

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>>28731076

>>28731286
that smell
that gasoline smell

>>28730202
It's like they're straight outta Reddi

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where's your god now

>>28729464
Oh shit guys! A sni-

>>28730258
Why are you yelling?

>>28730858
dibs. it's even got a loudener

>>28731316
Smells like... Victory

If you wanted a serious answer OP, the answer is yes. Sometimes the activities you mentioned are necessary prior to posting up.

>>28731395
remember to put your eye firmly against the objective lens

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>>28731525
THE TEAM IS WORKING GREAT THANKS

>>28731395
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock

Go down to "legacy"

>>28731395
anti-combatant weapon

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Fuck I don't know. Only "snipers"I've ever seen actually do something is a dmr.

>>28731565
remember to breath heavily when pulling the trigger

>>28731575
yep
learned about it back when i read a book about him

>>28731033
I have the biggest erection for the M110. Why does it have to be so expensive?

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>>28731575
>TFW people are talking about the guy you're reading about

>>28730334

Well it's Chris Kyle so you answered yourself there.

>>28731525

WHAT? WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY SPELLING?

>>28731566

I DON'T KNOW, I FIND STEAM PRETTY BUGGY, BUT YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH THE PRICES!

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If you guys were to choose a type of "sniper rifle", what would it be?
>Sniper Rifle (regular)
>Sniper Rifle (50 cal)
>DMR

>Silenced Y/N?
Any specific snipers that just gets you hard and wet?

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>>28731829
>120gr
It's not a Grendel son, use the 140s

>>28730334
He didn't do it as a sniper with his sniper gear. He basically swapped out his sniper position with an GB and borrowed some marines rifle to go door busting.

>>28731033
>>28731620

What in the fuck, I just looked up the price and it's in the tens of thousands range unless you're getting a used one. Not that there's anything wrong with used but they're still easily over $5k

Someone educate me plz

>>28729464
>>28730328
snipers spend most of their time as forward observers directing fire from artillery or providing intelligence.

they very rarely take a shot, marksmen shoot a fuck of a lot more than most snipers.

>>28731955
>>28731955
>snipers spend most of their time as forward observers directing fire from artillery
>regular ass sniper section
No. Snipers in regular infantry units are not trained as FOs and the only fires which can be directed are mortars. Anything else is a 13F, JTAC, etc.

>>28731955
>they very rarely take a shot, marksmen shoot a fuck of a lot more than most snipers
Why did you feel the need to say this when it is not contrary to the post you replied to?

Oh shit a sni

>>28730258
Because he is a sniper, he is obviously in the distance and must raise his voice to contribute to the thread.

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>>28730213
>No fun allowed

>>28732123
>I didn't read the post

>>28732206
>I'm a retard

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>>28730328
This is correct.

source: spent 3 years in a scout platoon with one deployment to Afghanistan.

>>28730328
>there is no MOS in either the USMC
MOS 0317

>>28731648
people talk about him all the fucking time.

>>28731648
not him but good book, read it a couple times

>>28731721
Vss vintoyaz

>>28732333
>>28730951
>>28731033
The Marines do have an MOS identifier for Scout Sniper. What I was trying to explain is that the job is not separate from infantry jobs. The 03 stem of MOSs in the Marine corps covers all infantry jobs and the second portion of it works more like an identifier. In the Army the number/lettter identifier that comes after the MOS (for example 11B1P) designates special assignments. More than anything I was trying to dispel the myth that snipers are an entirely different job that you can enlist into.

>>28733048
Then when the MOS was 8541 what did the 85 stand for?

>>28731669
What's that supposed to m

>>28733099
I don't know. It sounds like an entirely different MOS to me (requiring re-class or an enlistment contract), but I'm not a Marine and I know Marine Scout Snipers are infantry initially, just like the Army.

United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper (MOS 0317, formerly 8541) is a secondary MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) designator of U.S. Marine Corps infantrymen and reconnaissance Marines that have graduated from a U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper School. Scout Snipers must earn the rank of Lance Corporal, be selected by their battalion to join the scout-sniper platoon, and complete an approved scout-sniper course in order to receive this designation.

> is a secondary MOS (Military Occupational Specialty)

> is a secondary

Here ya go. Google and wiki know all.