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A sniper is NOT the same as a squad marksman. Stealth and an ability to gather information are big parts of our job. It's why we are a battalion or higher level asset.

There had been talk back in...

NO ROADS. None where I train, none in A-stan (what we train for). Can take my team several hours to move a few klicks due to terrain, weight of equipment (physical conditioning only helps so much)...

No, you may not. What I assert is that BfSB has no organic aviation assets, making LRS mission planning difficult. Especially in a NG BfSB. Yes we do other insertion methods, including stay behinds...

We also lack aviation assets. This is a big deal. No aviation, limited LRS capability, period.
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Yes they have, Not in my NG unit yet, but soon. As for The NATO LRS school, I'll look up the new name and a link by tomorrow, but they specifically stated that it is for US SF and NATO SOF on the web...

LRS Leaders course is RSLC (Recon and Surveillance Leaders Course) and the NATO LRS school is now called something else and run by SOCOM (very hard for non-SOF to get into). RSLC and Army...

Battalion Scouts have very simalier mission statements, minus any actual training (other then some OTJT) to accomplish the specialized missions. LRS is guided by MI and upper echelon commanders...

Could probably give a better answer if I knew what FEMA stood for. The short answer is "no". Army and Marines use there "recon" elements in differnt ways. A lot is alike and I will try to go deeper...

LRS was nearly killed after Desert Storm and again after 9/11. We were down to 82nd's, and maybe 10th Mountains on the active duty side (101st was killed 2005ish I think) and maybe 3-4 LRSD/LRSC...

Cavalry mission and R&S teams missions are not the same either. There is overlap in route recon and some area and zone recon but surveillance and urban recce are a pure infantry R&S team mission....

Update. Just returned from RSLC at Benning and have some infantry recon observations. One, the infantry recon community is tiny. Two, we are endangered by SF expansion into the traditional LRS...

The reason I stated "close" fighting was due to the tendency of infantry theorists to focus on firepower over mobility and tend to organize to assualt static positions to the best that I can figure...

Holy Cow! I agree with Fuchs on something.
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Wilf, I would add one cavet to your patrol/reconn based infantry. The "close" fight, ie, restricted terrain and urban settings, is a core skill for...

Bingo! This is also why I am not a fan of centralized schools that units send individuals to. Training the whole unit is going to have much better long term effects on a units ability to perform the...

Wilf, I agree that a "sniper" (or whatever the heck else you want to call him) does provide neccessary fire support (espicially against enemy csw), but the scout and information aspect is certainly...