1st Day of School

    I bet your first day of school would never be boring if you attended a school for snipers. Snipers go to school to be are highly trained to move without detection, search areas, estimate ranges, locate and identify sounds, use cover, concealment  and camouflage, and  endure long periods of waiting. They must use maps, sketches, aerial photos, compass, recognize enemy personnel quickly, and notice the difference from the enemy and a civilian.

There are many different activities for a sniper to train in moving without detection, searching areas, and locate and identifying sounds and many final activities that will tell if a sniper is ready or not. One activity used by many sniping schools is to place many small objects in the open air. As a sniper one must use the scope to scope out these objects but one is only given a certain amount of time to do so. After time is called the sniper is to get a piece of paper and list down what he saw. If the sniper saw a paperclip the sniper must write down a gray twisted oval shape piece of aluminum  because that is what the sniper saw and not a paper clip. To improve their skills they repeat this activity every day but are given less time to scope out the objects or they might scope out the objects in the morning and asked to write down what they saw at end of the day.

 Another game used to train snipers is placing small objects in an open grassy field. The sniper must use his scope to find these objects and when they do they must stare at it for several minutes. A sniper is told to always stay calm and have a lot of patience. Calmness and patience are two major keys in surviving on the field. If you have calmness and patience then concealment and camouflaging will not be as hard for you.