Are snipers and recon still valid in infantry battalions?

[GI Zhou]

to China after WW II and which they captured or obtained when the Nationalists were defeated in '49. Their Snipers weren't bad, weren't terribly good, either (up through late fall '52; don't know about later). They also had some dedicated marksmen, not snipers, in most units.

Ken,

Have you got a reference for the M1Cs going to the Nationalsts I couldn't find a reference. Was it the US Marine's after the end of their tour in China post-Second World War?