WITH ONE SHOT, MARINE BRASS KILL LEGENDARY SCOUT SNIPER PROGRAM
February 26, 2023Carl Prine
With one shot from a fleetwide message, the Marine Corps brass killed off the service's program for making and deploying legendarily lethal snipers.
A Feb. 23 blueprint detailing the “immediate” shift of 18-Marine sniper platoons into units with 26 scouts was provided to Coffee or Die Magazine, and it includes “zero allocated seats” for the sniper basic course in 2024.
That seemed to differ from an email from the US Marine Corps’ Training Command on Feb. 8 that assured Coffee or Die its leaders had “not received any formal requirement or task to modify the curriculum.”
“Should the decision be made to modernize that specific aspect of the training continuum, it will be based on a fleet requirement that is validated through Headquarters Marine Corps,” TECOM said in a prepared statement.
Neither Headquarters Marine Corps nor officials assigned to the program changing the sniper system responded to Coffee or Die’s inquiries about the fleetwide guidance that guts the sniper program.
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