WARNING.
WARNING.
If you like Scout Snipers.... do not click read more.
If you think Scout Sniper are a great idea... do not click read more.
If you are easily offended... do not click read more.
If you think I am pretentious and don't care about what you think.... do not click read more.
DISCLAIMER: The content beyond Read More is the feelings of the author, not of Command Staff.
WARNING.
If you like Scout Snipers.... do not click read more.
If you think Scout Sniper are a great idea... do not click read more.
If you are easily offended... do not click read more.
If you think I am pretentious and don't care about what you think.... do not click read more.
DISCLAIMER: The content beyond Read More is the feelings of the author, not of Command Staff.
Still clicked? Ok. You got your warning. From here on out you are mine, and I AM going to piss you off in this blog. Because I get to rant. And I don't get to do that much anymore.
Scout Snipers are fucking stupid.
Not, they're not, really. But they have absolutely not place in the 15th MEU (SOC) Realism Unit. "But Colonel," you say, "obviously you just don't know what they are!"
Yes. I fucking do. Because every half fuckwit who comes through has to ask the question 'Where are Scout Snipers?'
Dead. Dead and fucking buried. Why do we have such vehemence? Because every little kid (and far too many adults) who has spent way too many hours playing CoD/BF/DayZ HAS to say that. As if it's a fucking right of passage for you to be flabbergasted that we don't have Scout Snipers, because they're the 'cool' and 'in' thing.
Look mother fucker. This isn't the 8r9234r789234th Special Operative NATO Secret Squirrel Fuckers. This is not where you're going to traipse around in a goddamn ghillie suit and 'lawl sh0t dudez n da fais'.
You're a boot. You come here to be a fucking boot. Except for your crazy fuckers who have that itch to fly, or crew. But they're goddamn crazy.
You Scout Sniper enthusiasts? You're fucking batshit crazy.
We did this number before. You know what happened? Nothing. Go ask the guy who was Scout Snipers before. He'll tell you to eat a dick, we don't need them. Why? Because he fucking walked around in his ghillie suit doing fuck all, because
WE
DON'T
NEED
THEM.
Yes, there are plenty of things we don't need. But Scout Snipers are just a fucking sinkhole of uselessness. Walk around looking at things through a sniper rifle in a two-man team? I got news for you buddy: Not only are you going to be bored as fuck because you're not going to be authorized to shoot 95% of the time, you're going to bitch about it after the first operation, once the 'cool' factor has passed. Then you're going to die, because you're going to do something stupid, or just ArmA. Then you're going to bitch about needing a corpsman, because you can't just sit there and do your job correctly. Then you're going to get fired, because Command Staff is unfair, favoritist, and the Old Boys' Club.
*breath*
There are two places where you can get the experience of a Scout Sniper. You will literally do everything a Scout Sniper would do in this unit, without the above-cited vehemence and resulting clusterfuck. Platoon DMR and Force Recon.
Fact: DMR carries an M110 and uses it when necessary to scout for the platoon. Literally, this fucking guy has a sniper rifle on standby to be used. Is it Scout Snipers? No. But it's a Scout Sniper in the constrained battlefield in which we operate.
Force Recon also designates a pair of guys as their 'Scout Sniper Team'. It's nothing official, but these guys DO take an M40 Sniper Rifle and act as a Scout Sniper team during FORECON operations when it's necessary. And they don't run around like a fucking retard in ghillie suits. At least... I hope they don't.
So you wanna be a Scout Sniper because it's 'cool' and "omg guiz snipper riffle"? You have two avenues: DMR (not hard, but competitive) and FORECON (hard and competitive). But both of them are far easier to do than any two man Scout Sniper team would ever be to get in to.
Stop trying to be 'ahead of the curve' or 'cool'. You know what are those? A 500-man regular infantry unit. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, bitch.
</rant>
Told you I'd offend you.
Scout Snipers are fucking stupid.
Not, they're not, really. But they have absolutely not place in the 15th MEU (SOC) Realism Unit. "But Colonel," you say, "obviously you just don't know what they are!"
Yes. I fucking do. Because every half fuckwit who comes through has to ask the question 'Where are Scout Snipers?'
Dead. Dead and fucking buried. Why do we have such vehemence? Because every little kid (and far too many adults) who has spent way too many hours playing CoD/BF/DayZ HAS to say that. As if it's a fucking right of passage for you to be flabbergasted that we don't have Scout Snipers, because they're the 'cool' and 'in' thing.
Look mother fucker. This isn't the 8r9234r789234th Special Operative NATO Secret Squirrel Fuckers. This is not where you're going to traipse around in a goddamn ghillie suit and 'lawl sh0t dudez n da fais'.
You're a boot. You come here to be a fucking boot. Except for your crazy fuckers who have that itch to fly, or crew. But they're goddamn crazy.
You Scout Sniper enthusiasts? You're fucking batshit crazy.
We did this number before. You know what happened? Nothing. Go ask the guy who was Scout Snipers before. He'll tell you to eat a dick, we don't need them. Why? Because he fucking walked around in his ghillie suit doing fuck all, because
WE
DON'T
NEED
THEM.
Yes, there are plenty of things we don't need. But Scout Snipers are just a fucking sinkhole of uselessness. Walk around looking at things through a sniper rifle in a two-man team? I got news for you buddy: Not only are you going to be bored as fuck because you're not going to be authorized to shoot 95% of the time, you're going to bitch about it after the first operation, once the 'cool' factor has passed. Then you're going to die, because you're going to do something stupid, or just ArmA. Then you're going to bitch about needing a corpsman, because you can't just sit there and do your job correctly. Then you're going to get fired, because Command Staff is unfair, favoritist, and the Old Boys' Club.
*breath*
There are two places where you can get the experience of a Scout Sniper. You will literally do everything a Scout Sniper would do in this unit, without the above-cited vehemence and resulting clusterfuck. Platoon DMR and Force Recon.
Fact: DMR carries an M110 and uses it when necessary to scout for the platoon. Literally, this fucking guy has a sniper rifle on standby to be used. Is it Scout Snipers? No. But it's a Scout Sniper in the constrained battlefield in which we operate.
Force Recon also designates a pair of guys as their 'Scout Sniper Team'. It's nothing official, but these guys DO take an M40 Sniper Rifle and act as a Scout Sniper team during FORECON operations when it's necessary. And they don't run around like a fucking retard in ghillie suits. At least... I hope they don't.
So you wanna be a Scout Sniper because it's 'cool' and "omg guiz snipper riffle"? You have two avenues: DMR (not hard, but competitive) and FORECON (hard and competitive). But both of them are far easier to do than any two man Scout Sniper team would ever be to get in to.
Stop trying to be 'ahead of the curve' or 'cool'. You know what are those? A 500-man regular infantry unit. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, bitch.
</rant>
Told you I'd offend you.