Army Spec Ops Sniper Recounts His First K!ll

I remember looking at my spotter I'm like dude we're GNA smoke these dudes man before they and that was my first kill as a sniper it was like a jug of milk being poured off the side of the ledge that's what my brain told myself I killed three guys in a tree line they were countering to uh cut off our Avenue to our extraction area and I pluck three guys me and my spotter they had AKs and RP rpks or PK machine guns and was setting up trying to set up an ambush point and I

was my first kill as a sniper and how did that feel for you what was the distance 300 yards like 300 yard yeah 300 yards a little over 300 but I remember being on top of the rooftop and the sun is coming up so I can see now normally like 98% of our missions are at night this is the first time I remember seeing like Afghanistan or overseas in the daylight like that and I see these figures in the tree line moving and bobbing up and down and I'm like that doesn't seem right so I

look through my scope and that's where I see they are they car carrying the weapons and one guy setting up here one guy's trying to set up and take his little friend further down in the tree line so I'm looking at them and I'm like wait this doesn't make any sense we're not being shot at but they have weapons I called it up to our Ground Force Commander and he's like anybody with weapons that is deemed as a threat engage and I remember looking at my spotter I'm like dude we're going to smoke these dudes

man before they you know start shooting at us um took the shot my first shot missed but I remember the recoil of the and the smell of the when you first fire that round and you've got a clean Weapon It's oiled up and you get that gas blowback I shooting an sr25 and shot the first guy first shot missed hit him the second time went down to the second guy my spotter picked up the third guy and I remember with this 300 wi mag and it didn't it felt good but it also didn't feel like

it was real my first time shooting a three-dimensional moving human target I was not expecting I don't know just felt weird of normally with the machine gun it's more bullets or with the AR or M4 it's way more but just putting one round and watching the body go down with just it was weird it was weird but it felt good to know that I was like doing my job of hey I I don't ever like to say I did something of I saved the team or or prevented something no it was just right place right

time and it felt good to facilitate the extraction for the guys and taking these guys out um that was first day in Afghanistan got those kills and we were going out every day there after the next day we went to marja and that's where I get into the story we're walking in through the we step foot in the perimeter city of marja and we get ambushed and I remember this Tracer to me it looked like a lightsaber it was long and a glowing like lightsaber and it went past my head and it felt like slow

motion like what the heck was that I knew what it was but it took a minute I got down and that's when we start getting ambushed from the rooftop to uh I forget how many guys were on the rooftop I'll pick it up in a minute but I was at the back of the formation and me and my spotter or sniper pimberton we I pick him up I'm the sniper team lead so I say let's go to the middle of this formation provide Precision fire so at least our guys can get out of this Kill

Zone and make their way down to the objective so I get in the middle of the formation me and pton there's an M 203 Gunner next to me and I remember telling him hey shoot some 203 on the backside of the house that these guys were on in case they tried to flee out the back and we went to cut that Avenue off some he launched off a 203 and I remember I didn't have my ear Pro in and that boom the the crack of that 203 going off was like Wow woke me up a

little bit for those uh in the audience that don't know what a 203 is that is a grenade launcher yeah mounted on the bottom of his M4 and mhm yeah he shoots off two rounds of that it thuds in the back me and him set up I go prone put my bipods down he's kind of behind me and he's uh using his uh flood light to infrared flood laser to illuminate the guys on the rooftop and I could see like their heads pop up and just the whites of their eyes would glow when it bounces

off their eyes or whatnot and I lined up and I tell him hey we're going to you know pick these guys off I'm going to start on that side that's how we would work is I'd you know work on the outside work our way in and we go for the countdown I shoot and I hear a click on his end and I'm like what the heck was that and he Chambers around he goes click click again no nothing no fire and I think when ended up happening not too sure but I think s got in

his bolt action and vented the hammer from fully striking the primer I'm not sure but it never happened again it's like the only time I've ever chewed someone out and you know was pissed but I guess the good side I got a chance to kill all the guys myself but as they were popping up I just said hey keep your flood laser on them and walk with me meaning I'm going to engage one guy and go to the next guy and illuminate his head so they were popping up and they're shooting at us and I

would just line up the scope and pull the trigger first shot I remember hit the the lip of the top of the roof where they were peeking over and it struck low not sure if the distance was off or the angle I was shooting at I don't know or Jitters who knows what I was rarely a first shot impact guy mainly because of the range you don't have time to I was doing everything Mil Dot formula so if I know like I always used if I have your body from top of the head to groin

I knew the constant for that was uh what is it 40 time 25.4 and I think that's like 116 if I'm not mistaken that would be my constant and I would just quickly divide the mill dots into that 1016 but I would just make it a whole number my constant to a th000 to get me within close range so let's say if I'm I measure you from top of the head to the groin two M dots I know that's 500 M you know two into a th000 uh so yeah I would play it I guess

by ear like that my distance was off I'm not saying that they were 500 M away they were relatively close like within 150 M away shot the guy cleaned up my second shot shot him in his head and I remember his head busting and it sounded like a gallon of milk spoiled milk being poured over the the edge of the the the rooftop how how how close were you it was within 150 yards you could hear that I could hear the chunks or I could hear splashing I could hear splashing my distance dude honestly could

be off it was not it was no long no more than 150 nighttime I don't know it was within no more than 150 it could have been less than that less than 100 less than um I don't know I don't if I'm not going to say I heard I could have been making that up in my brain what I saw but I don't know my I don't know I think the body yeah like even the first guy that I remember a sniper shooting overseas my brain registered pack sack of potatoes and that's what I saw

I thought someone dumped over a sack of potatoes off of a ledge and that's what my mind made up you know of I don't know the mind it happens all the time you know I'm not saying it didn't happen no no dude no no there was also no stack of potatoes obviously but no I know that I don't know if it's the way my brain makes sense of things or what not um I'm not sure but to me it was like a jug of milk being poured off the side of the ledge that's what my

brain told myself whether or not the sound was audible or not did he did he fall over no it was like his headed over the ledge no he was not off the ledge but hanging off the off the ledge like from this part up so his body was on the roof and he was halfway spilled over the second guy I shot his head he disappeared and at this time we have ISR above and they're describing what's going on on the rooftop and I thought it was a dog the third guy um but he was crawling

on his hands on his hands and knees so I just saw the long portion of his back or his spine and I thought it was a dog so I shot and he went down I didn't find out it was a guy until we went onto the rooftop and I saw the dead bodies there uh yeah my guys after that they pushed on to the objective we got ambushed thereafter I think we got ambushed like eight times that night no matter where you're watching Shan Ryan Show from if you get anything out of this please like

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