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2004-01-03 05:30 | User Profile
Degradation of being itself. I add the "Jew" to "US" because people who would shoot others like these are not American soldiers, they have been corrupted by those behind their deployment
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/international/middleeast/02SNIP.html[/url]
New York Times. January 2, 2004 In Iraq's Murky Battle, Snipers Offer U.S. a Precision Weapon By ERIC SCHMITT
AMARRA, Iraq, Dec. 28 ââ¬â The intimate horror of the guerrilla war here in Iraq seems most vivid when seen through the sights of a sniper's rifle. In an age of satellite-guided bombs dropped at featureless targets from 30,000 feet, Army snipers can see the expression on a man's face when the bullet hits. "I shot one guy in the head, and his head exploded," said Sgt. Randy Davis, one of about 40 snipers in the Army's new 3,600-soldier Stryker Brigade, from Fort Lewis, Wash. "Usually, though, you just see a dust cloud pop up off their clothes, and see a little blood splatter come out the front." Working in teams of two or three, Army snipers here in Iraq cloak themselves in the shadows of empty city buildings or burrow into desert sands with camouflage suits, waiting to fell guerrilla gunmen and their leaders with a single shot from as far as half a mile away. As the counterinsurgency grinds into its ninth month, the Army is increasingly relying on snipers to protect infantry patrols sweeping through urban streets and alleyways, and to kill guerrilla leaders and disrupt their attacks. "Properly employed, we can break the enemy's back," said Sergeant Davis, 25, who is from Murfreesboro, Tenn. "Our main targets are their main command and control elements and other high-value targets." Soldiering is a violent business, and emotions in combat run high. But commanders say snipers are a different breed of warrior ââ¬â quiet, unflappable marksmen who bring a dispassionate intensity to their deadly task. "The good ones have to be calm, methodical and disciplined," said Lt. Col. Karl Reed, who commands the Stryker Brigade's Fifth Battalion, 20th Infantry, Sergeant Davis's parent unit. In the month since he arrived here on his first combat tour, Sergeant Davis already has eight confirmed kills ââ¬â including seven in a single day ââ¬â and two "probables." He and his partner, Specialist Chris Wilson, who has one confirmed kill, do not brag about their feats. Their words reflect a certain icy professionalism instilled in men who say they take no pleasure in killing, and try not to see their Iraqi foes as men with families and children. "You don't think about it," said Specialist Wilson, 24, of Muncie, Ind., speaking at an austere base camp near here after a late-afternoon mission. "You just think about the lives of the guys to your left and right." Sergeant Davis nodded in agreement: "As soon as they picked up a weapon and tried to engage U.S. soldiers, they forfeited all their rights to life, is how I look at it." All soldiers are trained to destroy an opponent, but snipers have honed the art of killing to a fine edge. At a five-week training course at Fort Benning, Ga., they learn to stalk their prey, conceal their own movements, spot telltale signs of an enemy shooter and take down a target with a lone shot. To qualify for the school, a soldier must already be an expert marksman, pass a physical examination and undergo a psychological screening ("To make sure they're not training a nut," Sergeant Davis said.) The rigorous course fails more than half of its students. The demand for snipers is great enough that the Army has sent a team of trainers to Iraq to keep churning out new ones for the war effort here and in other hot spots. As the Army faces more conflicts in which terrorists use the tight confines of city blocks and rooftops to stage hit-and-run strikes, the sniper school has placed increasing emphasis on urban tactics. That makes sense in places like this city of 250,000 people, a hotbed of Saddam Hussein supporters 65 miles northwest of Baghdad. The training paid off on Dec. 18. Dusk was setting in here, and Sergeant Davis was wrapping up a counter-sniper mission when he spotted an armed Iraqi on a rooftop about 300 yards away. He said he knew the gunman was a sniper by the way he sneaked along the roofline to track a squad below from Sergeant Davis's Company B. "The guy made a mistake when he silhouetted himself against the rooftop," said Sergeant Davis, who has 20/10 vision. "He was trying to look over to see where the guys were in the courtyard." As the gunman rose from the shadows to fire, Sergeant Davis said he saw his head and then the distinctive shape of a Dragonov SVD Russian-made sniper rifle. The sergeant drew a bead on the shooter with his weapon of choice, an M-14 rifle equipped with a special optic sight that has crosshairs and a red aiming dot. "I went ahead and engaged him and shot him one time to the chest," he said, matter of factly. "I watched him kick back, his rifle flew back, and I saw a little blood come out of his chest. It was a good hit." Three days earlier, Company B walked into an ambush in downtown Samarra in which gunmen on motorcycles used children leaving school as cover to attack the patrol. Sergeant Davis, armed this time with an M-4 rifle, shot 7 of the 11 attackers that American commanders say died in the 45-minute skirmish. "We don't have civilian casualties," the sergeant said of how he avoided the schoolchildren. "Everything you hit, you know exactly what it is. You know where every round is going." In city or desert, Army snipers spend hours planning and setting up their positions, often under cover of darkness. "We don't have the capability to survive a sustained firefight," the sergeant said. "We use surprise and stealth to accomplish missions." Army snipers generally choose from four different weapons, depending on the mission. The standard M-24 sniper rifle is simple in design. It has an adjustable Kevlar stock, a thick stainless steel barrel, a mounted telescopic, day/night scope and is bolt action, rather than semiautomatic, like other sniper rifles. It sets up on a bipod and fires 7.62-millimeter ammunition, hitting targets up to 1,000 yards away. In the desert, snipers wrap plastic bags or condoms over the gun muzzle to keep the sand out. They carry their weapons in padded green canvas bags. "We baby the hell out of them," Sergeant Davis said. Most snipers are familiar with firearms even before joining the armed forces. Sergeant Davis and Specialist Wilson grew up on farms, and both owned their first rifles before they were 10. They fondly remember hunting deer as youngsters. Both men are married and have children, and say they do not talk much about their work outside their tight-knit clan. "We try to get away from stereotypes that you're a psychotic gun nut running around, like the guy in D.C., or like in the movies, a cool-guy assassin," Sergeant Davis said. There are not many targets these men dread, but in the shifting battlefield of Iraq, where seemingly everyone is armed, one candidate emerges. Would they ever shoot a child who aimed at them? "I couldn't imagine that," said Specialist Wilson, a father of five. But Sergeant Davis had a different view: "I'd shoot him, otherwise he'd shoot me. But I wouldn't feel good about it."
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2004-01-03 08:06 | User Profile
[QUOTE]"I went ahead and engaged him and shot him one time to the chest," he said, matter of factly. "I watched him kick back, his rifle flew back, and I saw a little blood come out of his chest. It was a good hit."[/QUOTE]
Production efficiency right out of Taylor's time-motion studies! This is the end product of letting the system run us instead of us run the system. The industrial model of war was blamed on the Germans but it was America and Britain that created the template -- the Germans, alas, never really had the sangfroid for it. What with Hitler letting all those Brits escape at Dunkirk... my God what an amateur Adolf was!
Professionalism was Dresden, then Nuremberg, then 50 years of wars-without-declarations as a run-up to the New World Order. Add a generation of computer games and Presto! We have our efficiency and our empire (which nobody dares call it!)
Who says America deindustrialized? Nope. We just used our tried-and-true techniques in other areas. "It was a good run," we used to say when the furnace was empty and the molten steel was cooling and setting. Now "It was a good hit" and the warm corpses are cooling and rigor mortis sets in.
It's still just industry, friends.
2004-01-03 08:30 | User Profile
Sergeant Davis nodded in agreement: "As soon as they picked up a weapon and tried to engage U.S. soldiers, they forfeited all their rights to life, is how I look at it."
That guy isn't too bright. If anything, the reverse of what he said is true. As soon as you set foot on another nation's soil with aggressive intent, you forfeit your right to live. The Iraqis, in contrast, have every right to shoot those who have invaded their country without provocation. Those who don't like hearing about US soldiers getting shot have only one legitimate reason to bitch: the fact that those soldiers are in Iraq in the first place.
Now, I have nothing against snipers per se. Sniping is just another means of killing the enemy during a war -- it's just much more precise (assuming the guy behind the trigger isn't a member of the child-murdering IDF or some such outfit). My problem is with the current war itself -- which, as we all know, is nothing but Jewish/Zionist aggression by proxy.
2004-01-03 17:01 | User Profile
"I shot one guy in the head, and his head exploded," said Sgt. Randy Davis, one of about 40 snipers in the Army's new 3,600-soldier Stryker Brigade, from Fort Lewis, Wash. "Usually, though, you just see a dust cloud pop up off their clothes, and see a little blood splatter come out the front."
Boasting about the cold blooded murder of man defending his homeland.
I would say that proves just how utterly evil US forces have become under Jewish/ neocon/NWO leadership, but then again ordering the ruthless murder of civilians is nothing new for American elites -- at Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, American elites ordered the murder a half million civilians to help make the world safe for pornography, gangsta rap, and Bolshevism.
If only Hitler and the Nazis could have somehow held out against the Jews and their puppets (Stalin, FDR, Churchill), the world would be a different place today.
As for more recent history and the immediate future, we shouldn't forget that the Army's sniper brigade (murder brigade) has many uses.
In all likelihood, these snipers will be used against us if and when our ideas ever begin to take hold among American Whites. Why? Because Whites have been betrayed by White elites who serve only their own or Jewish/NWO interests. That means we are the leaders -- a bunch of ordinary working joes most of whom have no real influence or power beyond the ability to write and communicate ideas -- hence, we will be the ones first on the list for elimination.
2004-01-03 20:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Valley Forge]Boasting about the cold blooded murder of man defending his homeland.
I would say that proves just how utterly evil US forces have become under Jewish/ neocon/NWO leadership, but then again ordering the ruthless murder of civilians is nothing new for American elites -- at Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, American elites ordered the murder a half million civilians to help make the world safe for pornography, gangsta rap, and Bolshevism.
If only Hitler and the Nazis could have somehow held out against the Jews and their puppets (Stalin, FDR, Churchill), the world would be a different place today.
As for more recent history and the immediate future, we shouldn't forget that the Army's sniper brigade (murder brigade) has many uses.
In all likelihood, these snipers will be used against us if and when our ideas ever begin to take hold among American Whites. Why? Because Whites have been betrayed by White elites who serve only their own or Jewish/NWO interests. That means we are the leaders -- a bunch of ordinary working joes most of whom have no real influence or power beyond the ability to write and communicate ideas -- hence, we will be the ones first on the list for elimination.[/QUOTE]
When will the American people learn that this war was instigated by the Zionits Jews? When will they learn that at this moment Iraqui oil is going to the state of Israel? Satellite fhotos have shown a new pipe line going in the right direction. At the beginning of the war the Americans "secured" two airfields, those "air fields" were nothing more than oil pumping stations that were shut down a long time ago, they were pumping oil to the State of Israel. Like Sharon said,,,,," We Jews control America",,,,,,Amen.
2004-01-04 07:32 | User Profile
These snipers are nothing but lowly implements of death used by their jew/traitor goy masters; as mindless as the rifles the fire with such precision. Afflicted with that insular us-against-them military mentality, they never take the time to be honest with themselves and reflect on the fact that it's the rags they snuff who are the true patriots because they're the ones dying to defend their country against overwhelming odds.
But maybe these types aren't quite so hopeless after all: My mother's cousin is a Korean War combat vet, and he loathes the Chimp with great intensity - has utter contempt for this AWOL National Guard draft-dodger who now does his ludicrous cowboy strut as he sends these dupes kill & die in foreign sandpits. So if they ever do reflect, maybe it will enable them to realize that they've been used by scum for an evil, un-American war, but I doubt it.