A Marine Corps scout sniper candidate with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division ... Cedar Barnes/Marine Corps) Reconnaissance Marines now have a quicker ...

Marines with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion ... part is always just fairy dusted,” a former member of the recon and sniper community said. “Recon isn’t the grunts; recon is special.

First Platoon of Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion ... the Zero MMX is an excellent platform for reconnaissance and sniper teams to infiltrate, conduct its mission and exfil with ...

CAMP MATILDA, Kuwait — For most of the Marines here, the opening of a war against the Iraqi army would be called G-day, for ground offensive. But for Sgt. Ken Sutherby and Cpl. Cameron Gingras ...

The mission of Force Recon is to conduct amphibious reconnaissance, deep ground reconnaissance, surveillance, battle-space shaping and limited scale raids in support of the Marine Expeditionary ...

But the Marines from the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion pictured in the September 2010 photo told investigators they thought the double thunderbolt referred to “scout snipers,” not racist or ...

The reconnaissance section ... 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division allowed infantryman and scouts within the battalion to compete for spots in the sniper platoon and for an opportunity ...

Three former 1st Reconnaissance Marines who participated ... Three of the actors also played service members in “American Sniper.” Eric Ladin, who played Cpl. James Chaffin, Chance Kelly ...