A Marine Corps scout sniper candidate with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, adjusts his sights during a live-fire exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground ...

a new MOS “Reconnaissance Sniper” will be established “within the Reconnaissance Battalions.” The new Scout Platoons will consist of 26 Marines, a first lieutenant, and an infantry gunnery ...

With the transition, the Marine Corps is also creating a reconnaissance sniper specialty and maintaining “designated marksmen” and sniper weapons in rifle companies. The scout sniper platoons ...

Manuel Alvarado/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps is scrapping its scout sniper program and will soon house its snipers under reconnaissance, rather than infantry, battalions. Instead of scout sniper ...

The US scout sniper ... SS logo to fit their unit flag A US Marine scout sniper unit in Afghanistan posed for a photo in front of a flag resembling the logo of the Nazi SS, the Marine Corps ...

The wait is over: the Marine Corps’s brand new sniper is ... fielding the a handful of infantry and reconnaissance battalions and scout sniper schoolhouses with the 1st Marine Expeditionary ...

This month, the Marine Corps System Command announced it reached Fully Operational Capability (FOC) for the rifle, which helps the service modernize the sniper capabilities of reconnaissance and ...