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(Message started by: Big Dan on Aug 1^st, 2006, 12:58am)

Title: America! **** YEAH!
Post by Big Dan on Aug 1^st, 2006, 12:58am

RAMADI, Iraq - He was 5 when he first fired an M-16, his father holding him to brace against the recoil. At 17 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, spurred by the memory of 9/11. Now, 21-year-old Galen Wilson has 20 confirmed kills in four months in Iraq — and another 40 shots that probably killed insurgents. One afternoon the lance corporal downed a man hauling a grenade launcher five-and-a-half football fields away.

Wilson is the designated marksman in a company of Marines based in downtown Ramadi, watching over what Marines call the most dangerous neighborhood in the most dangerous city in the world.
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His composure is regularly tested. Swaths of central and southern Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, are dominated by insurgents who regularly attack the provincial government headquarters that Marines protect.

During a large-scale attack on Easter Sunday, Wilson says, he spotted six gunmen on a rooftop about 400 yards away. In about 8 seconds he squeezed off five rounds — hitting five gunmen in the head. The sixth man dived off a 3-story building just as Wilson got him in his sights, and counts as a probable death.

"You could tell he didn't know where it was coming from. He just wanted to get away," Wilson said. Later that day, he said, he killed another insurgent.
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Technically, Wilson is not a sniper — he's an infantryman who also patrols through the span of destroyed buildings that make up downtown Ramadi. But as his unit's designated marksman, he has a sniper rifle. In the heat of day or after midnight, he spends hours on rooftop posts, peering out onto rows of abandoned houses from behind piles of sandbags and bulletproof glass cracked by gunfire.

Sometimes individual gunmen attack, other times dozens. Once Wilson shot an insurgent who was "turkey peeking" — Marine slang for stealing glances at U.S. positions from behind a corner. Later, the distance was measured at 514 meters — 557 yards.
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-Big Dan

Title: Re: America! **** YEAH!
Post by Dissident on Aug 1^st, 2006, 1:11am

YAY!! Hope my boy is such a bad ass killing machine! Got several AR-15's and an M4 for him to practice with :o

I hate death and war but I love my RRA! I'm one of those hybrid liberals ya know [smiley=laugh.gif]

LOFL

Title: Re: America! **** YEAH!
Post by Tom K on Aug 1^st, 2006, 8:40am

Silent souls make .308 holes...

The Marines stress accuracy and fire control in their firearms training, every Marine from Infantry to Cook is expected to shoot Marksman. Thanks for the story BD!