As is the motto by one of our lieutenants talking about our unit, when asked anything he will respond "KILL, Steely eyed killers HooAH!!!!" We qualified with our rifles with our new CCO's (close combat optics) basically a new generation scope. Once the scope is sighted you just put the little red dot on the bad guy and bye bye. We all scored very well. I scored fairly high and that was even after a weapon jam that cost me precious time on the qualify range. (as the event is a timed event).
It was 97 degrees here yesterday when we were qualifying. With all that armor on and no shade we had 6 heat casualties. 4 ended up having to go to the hospital while the other 2 only needed an
iv stuck in them. I had a chance to watch the snipers shoot for a while aswell. All i can say is i am glad they are on our side. they were firing at 1000 meters(3 280.8 feet) or 3/4 a mile or more. That was them just having fun with no REAL range. Just to give you an idea of the distance, we qualify with our max target at 300 meters (984.2 feet), at that distance you can hide the target EASILY behind the end of a pencil.
I have new pictures but of course i forgot to upload them onto my computer so i will try to post them next time!
