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Offline trapeze

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Macho Sniper Stuff
« on: March 14, 2011, 04:25:25 PM »
Well, they aren't ours but they are fighting on the same side (don't tell the Bamster). A heck of an accomplishment and a terrific attitude (cold blooded killers)...more of these, please:

[blockquote]The arrival at the newly-established Patrol Base Shamal Storrai (Pashto for “North Star”) in late August 2009 of Serjeant Tom Potter and Rifleman Mark Osmond marked the start of an astonishing episode in the history of British Army sniping.

Within 40 days, the two marksmen from 4 Rifles, part of the Welsh Guards Battle group, had achieved 75 confirmed kills with 31 attributed to Potter and 44 to Osmond. Each kill was chalked up as a little stick man on the beam above the firing position in their camouflaged sangar beside the base gate – a stick man with no head denoting a target eliminated with a shot to the skull.

Osmond, 25, was an engaging, fast-talking enthusiast, eager to display his encyclopedic knowledge of every specification and capability of his equipment. He had stubbornly remained a rifleman because he feared that being promoted might lead to his being taken away from sniping, a job he loved and lived for. Potter, 30, was more laid back, projecting a calm professionalism and quiet confidence in the value of what he did.

Potter had notched up seven confirmed kills in Bara in 2007 and 2008 while Osmond’s total was 23. Both were members of the Green Jackets team that won the 2006 British Army Sniper Championships.

On one occasion they killed eight Taliban in two hours, ‘I wasn’t comfortable with it at first,’ said Osmond, ‘you start wondering is it really necessary?’ But the reaction of the locals soon persuaded him. ‘We had people coming up to us afterwards, not scared to talk to us. They felt they were being protected’.



On September 12th, a known Taliban commander appeared on the back of a motorcycle with a passenger riding pillion. There was a British patrol in the village of Gorup-e Shesh Kalay and under the rules of engagement, the walkie-talkie the Taliban pair were carrying was designated a hostile act. As they drove off, Osmond fired warning shots with his pistol and then picked up his L96, the same weapon – serial number 0166 – he had used in Iraq and on the butt of which he had written, ‘I love u 0166’.

Taking deliberate aim, he fired a single shot. The bike tumbled and both men fell onto the road and lay there motionless. When the British patrol returned, they checked the men and confirmed they were both dead, with large holes through their heads.

The 7.62 mm bullet Osmond had fired had passed through the heads of both men. He had achieved the rare feat of ‘one shot, two kills’ known in the sniping business as ‘a Quigley’. The term comes from the 1990 film Quigley Down Under in which the hero, played by Tom Selleck, uses an old Sharps rifle to devastating effect.
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Good article and there is a bit more at the link. Bonus: Slide show here.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2011, 04:34:39 PM by trapeze »
In a doomsday scenario, hippies will be among the first casualties. So not everything about doomsday will be bad.

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Re: Macho Sniper Stuff
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2011, 04:38:16 PM »
"...they were both dead, with large holes through their heads."

I don't know about you but I get a warm, fuzzy feeling when I read stuff like this. Makes me think of bunnie rabbits and green grass on a sunny spring day.

In a doomsday scenario, hippies will be among the first casualties. So not everything about doomsday will be bad.

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Re: Macho Sniper Stuff
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2011, 08:00:53 PM »
Warms my cockles!   ;D
We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.

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Re: Macho Sniper Stuff
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2011, 08:46:23 PM »
Money Quote:

On one occasion they killed eight Taliban in two hours, ‘I wasn’t comfortable with it at first,’ said Osmond, ‘you start wondering is it really necessary?’ But the reaction of the locals soon persuaded him. ‘We had people coming up to us afterwards, not scared to talk to us. They felt they were being protected’.

The Taliban are such evil scum, their own "people" hate their guts.
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Re: Macho Sniper Stuff
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2011, 08:34:43 AM »
reply to bigAlSouth.
The Taliban are not their own people, they are people with the same mentality as Obummer, they want everyone to do things THEIR way or die.

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Re: Macho Sniper Stuff
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2011, 05:42:10 PM »
Why can't the media here have the same attitude about our men and women in uniform?
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Re: Macho Sniper Stuff
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2011, 05:43:28 PM »
Why can't the media here have the same attitude about our men and women in uniform?

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