Posted on 12/05/2023 9:11:31 PM PST by 11th_VA
The last class of Marine Scout Snipers is scheduled to graduate on Dec. 15, marking the end of the 0317 MOS and a long tradition of producing some of the deadliest snipers on the battlefield.
The last HOGs night will take place the night before, aboard Camp Geiger in North Carolina.
Marine scout sniper candidates are initially called Professionally Instructed Gunmen, or PIGs, but once they graduate from the course, they are called Hunters of Gunmen, or HOGs.
The HOGs night, a tradition for all scout sniper graduates including legends like Carlos Hathcock and Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, is where scout snipers gather around a bonfire to receive their HOGs tooth, a 7.62 bullet on a 550 cord necklace. The rite of passage is traditionally attended by Scout Snipers past and present.
Jonathan Taylor is the executive vice president and COO of the USMC Scout Sniper Association… He’s helped put together the HOGs night for years…
“It’s usually just a smaller group with the graduates and then a few, you know, a few stragglers here or there. This one is scheduled to be big,” Taylor said. “We’re already getting emails from people. I think they are planning for 50 at the HOGs night, but that’s just off the top of the head of the staff NCOIC. I would say it’s closer to 60 to 70.”
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Logan Stark, a former Marine Scout Sniper who deployed to Okinawa, Japan; and Sangin, Afghanistan, acknowledged that though there are mixed emotions, he’s confident that with the current state of the world, this won’t be the last we’ve seen of the Scout Snipers. He pointed out that the Marine Scout Sniper course has come and gone multiple times since the first course took place in 1918. …
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“End of an era: The last class of Marine Scout Snipers graduates on Dec. 15”
Take that, Putin!!!!
The sniper school will now be set up to train Penguin counters.
Accurate shooting is racist. Future Marines will be trained to shoot from the hip wildly while holding their gun sideways.
More of the destruction of the USMC.
eliminating all Marine Corps Tank Battalions and associated MOSs;
eliminating all Law Enforcement Battalions and associated MOSs;
eliminating all Bridging Companies and associated MOSs;
reducing the number of Infantry Battalions from 24 to 21;
reducing the number of Cannon Artillery Batteries from 21 to 5;
reducing the number of Amphibious Vehicle Companies from 6 to 4.
Most Cobras are going away. Most 53s are going away. And the F-35 moonpigs are going from 16 to 10 per squadron.
And now... snipers are going away.
And the new plan? Park them on South Pacific islands as “Littoral Combat Units”. They get a battery of anti-ship missiles and an infantry battalion to sit in foxholes around the launchers.
They are reversing the WWII Marine approach of being assault troops and this time making them be the dug in Japanese. Wake Island was a great fight, and the defense battalion did a fantastic job. But defense of an island is a losing game and is better done by doggies.
I wonder why this is the last class?
Well is it really right for snipers to intentionally shoot a specific enemy? After all, even terrorists have family and loved ones. Snipe hunting is not nice.
It seems that the course has come and gone many times since it started in 1918.
“Logan Stark, a former Marine Scout Sniper who deployed to Okinawa, Japan; and Sangin, Afghanistan, acknowledged that though there are mixed emotions, he’s confident that with the current state of the world, this won’t be the last we’ve seen of the Scout Snipers. He pointed out that the Marine Scout Sniper course has come and gone multiple times since the first course took place in 1918.
“I think that there’s very much a break in case of emergency mentality for Scout Snipers right now,” Stark said. “I think that if all of a sudden the warfare landscape switched dramatically overnight, I think we would see the program brought back immediately. But, who knows.”
Mark
The Chinese installed Biden for this kind of self sabotage.
Probably cutting it because girls can’t play.
Probably thinking in the back of their minds they can build up a Drone Sniper Force
Doesn’t affirm muslim self love, promote gender pretenders, safe spaces, fursuits, puppy masks, or pronouns so we’re getting rid of it.
War is not nice. War is Hell.
Our snipers are there to remind the enemy that war is not a glorious jihad.
Our snipers also save the lives of our troops too.
Another example of our low IQ, insane , leadership. What next, replace their rifles with water pistols?
WTF?!?!?!?
They’ll just issue drones to all boot camp privates. No more rifles. Besides, snipers require patience, cunning, skills, and determination, nothing the last generations generation have shown to possess.
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