Blogpost # 7: Sniper Roles

A U.S Marine Sniper

This article is will talk about the roles of snipers in the field.

According to the article How Military Snipers Work by Robert Valdes talked about how snipers are great in stealth, camouflage, infiltration and observation techniques. This means that a sniper can do all sorts of stuff and is always handy in every mission. But the article focuses on the role of the sniper and there speciality which is reconnaissance meaning that the role of a sniper is to locate a specific enemy. Since snipers are masters of stealth they could easily get behind enemy lines while relaying vital information of the enemy's size, strength and locations. Snipers don't just kill and kill they have to eliminate a target that would benefit the team.

"You want to take out what's going to help your buddies the most"

So if you want to help out your team you should take out the problem. Its as simple as that.

A sniper holding a modified sniper rifle

I read another article entitled The Way of the Sniper by Rick Telander which explained how a sniper is given the supportive role when it comes to teamwork. Snipers are more of a supportive soldier when it comes to working with a group. They explain where the enemies are, since snipers are practically hidden. But when given the chance snipers are instructed to eliminate head generals or officials.

"When you're in the military, you have experience knowing how a commander acts. You can tell who's who by looking. Say in the field, you're sitting there looking and some guy walks by and salutes somebody and then , 'BAM' you know he's an officer, That's one of thee things you pick up on."

Snipers are really helpful when it comes to taking out the officers. Because of you think about it if you take out a general or even the officers no one would be able to tell the lower rankings what to do and would cause these lower ranks to panic because of lack of experience.

Reconnaissance is really an important tool of a sniper and never really thought much about a sniper as a support ive always thought of snipers as a carry (dota joke) kidding aside sniper are as I said very usefull members to have in a team.