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Counter-attacking the sniper. Once a sniper's position is known or suspected, other options follow: Fire support: If the sniper's general position can be determined by other means, the area can be bombarded by mortars, artillery, or close air support. Rockets, guided missiles, anti-armor/anti-fortification weapons and other direct fire options ...
Arnold Walker, RAF pilot. Herbert Hasler, Second World War Royal Marines officer. "Blood" – J. A. L. Caunter, British general [21] "Blood-n-Guts" – George S. Patton, Jr., American general in World War II (a nickname he rejected) [22] "Bloody Bill" –. William T. Anderson, Confederate guerrilla leader. William Cunningham, Loyalist militia ...
ROK Army Special Warfare Command ("Black Berets") [198] 1st Special Forces Brigade (Airborne) [199] 13th Special Mission Brigade [200] [201] [202] 707th Special Mission Group. Republic of Korea Navy [203] ROK Naval Special Warfare Flotilla [204] Republic of Korea Marine Corps.
Sniper French and British (center) snipers equipped with FR F2, Accuracy International AWM and PGM Hécate II rifles (left to right, 2012) and camouflage Ghillie suits Occupation Occupation type Military / Law enforcement Activity sectors Use of high-precision rifles and special reconnaissance Vasily Zaytsev, left, and other Soviet snipers equipped with Mosin–Nagant M1891/30 during the ...
Sniper trap – A sniper trap (colloquial term in US military “Chechen rat trap”) is a tactic used by snipers in which the sniper intentionally shoots to wound instead of kill an enemy combatant, with the end goal of drawing more enemy personnel into the field of fire so the sniper can fire on them as they provide aid to their wounded comrade.
Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words. American/NATO codes. This is a list of American standardized brevity code words. The scope is limited to those brevity codes used in multiservice ...
48th Armored Division – "Hurricane". 49th Armored Division – "Lone Star"; referring to its status as a Texas National Guard formation, after the state's nickname. 50th Armored Division – "Jersey Blues"; referring to the fact that it was a New Jersey National Guard unit. This is today's 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
A United States Army sniper who formerly held the record for the most confirmed kills by a US military sniper (109). 109 United States: Alvin York: 1887–1964 1917–1918 An expert sharpshooter with the 82nd Infantry Division who used an M1917 Enfield rifle during the Meuse–Argonne offensive near Chatel-Chéhéry, France, 1918 in World War I.