Sharpshooter(s) in Iraq (pics, video, texts) updating...

[Rob]

It is definately an interesting perspective you never get to see. Storytime with a friend who served as Marine Fleet Antiterrorist always manages to leave our eyes as big as saucers.

oh yes

[///M Powered]

Dave- exactly, on all points, especially the last one.



here's another one I found, these guys look slightly less professional with the racial slurs, etc.

http://rapidshare.de/files/3409218/Blackwater_in_Najaf.wmv.html

Didn't work here.

[Justin B]

You have to click on 'free' then it will count down like 20 seconds or something THEN it'll have a link to download the video.

[Rob]

yeah, no way to direct link

[marakka]

I don't have exact numbers on what these guys make but I got a rough number for other contractors. The General Dynamics (mechanics) guys that worked with us on the Bradleys and Abrams would make 160-190k a year there depending on what their GS position was. There were also some FBI guys that worked on our post as convoy escorts and PSD's for Iraqi higher ups. They drove the same kind of trucks as was in the videos of the first ambush during the convoy. Now THOSE guys.... MADE LOOT. I could never get the guy to tell me how much..... but after 2 months of being deployed he ordered a Rolex online. They would constantly drive to Baghdad from Ad-Diluyah where we were (about 60 miles) and get us alcohol and shit. Good peoples.

Working with Special Forces was a lot like what those guys do. They'd ride around in dune buggies or in light armored humvees with the doors off. They'd wear next to no armor and we'd be in 40+lbs of gear and they'd never... I mean NEVER wear a kevlar. They'd punch right through a kill zone and start wailing. I'm over here hunkering down looking for rounds and these guys are throwing grenades and laughing and shit. It was insane.

These video's just go to show a small snipit of the other world that goes on behind the scenes. I'm sure you can also find some of the real world engagements that the men in green go through. A little more "adrenaline" like..... those BW guys are coldblooded.... freakin icewater.... It gets a little more hot and heavy when you are ridin in a Bradley, you hear a boom and the right side of it lifts off the ground. Next thing you know you got 2 dismounts scramblin and 25mm flyin everywhere.

Great vids. Keep em comin!

[Justin B]

Working with Special Forces was a lot like what those guys do. They'd ride around in dune buggies or in light armored humvees with the doors off. They'd wear next to no armor and we'd be in 40+lbs of gear and they'd never... I mean NEVER wear a kevlar. They'd punch right through a kill zone and start wailing. I'm over here hunkering down looking for rounds and these guys are throwing grenades and laughing and shit. It was insane.

omfg. :shock: do they WANT to die? wow lol

[george graves]

So - anyone know how many of the shots that sniper on the roof-top was making? - Are those guys dead on - is every shot hitting someone - or 1 out of 2? What?

Doesn't that gun start to overheat?

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[///M Powered]

You have to click on 'free' then it will count down like 20 seconds or something THEN it'll have a link to download the video.

Just noticed it disables link is you use a download-accelerator... woops! works now that i turned it off.

[Rob]

So - anyone know how many of the shots that sniper on the roof-top was making? - Are those guys dead on - is every shot hitting someone - or 1 out of 2? What?

edit- found a direct quote:
"as for the Ammo and hitting hajis, I had first hits 95% of the time at ranges under 500yrs which most fell or threw them selves to the ground but got back up and stumbled so I would put 2-4 more rounds in them or until they stoped moving all together. at ranges out to 700 I would have to kentucky windage it in on them but that was just because most of them were movers, anyone sitting still was a dead as hell in very few shots. but the 77gr was great ammo for that day as far as the multiple ranges I was shooting at."

Doesn't that gun start to overheat?...

He's shooting a modified Bushmaster ; see that grill looking thing around the barrel? Thats a free floating handguard, which means it doesnt touch the barrel, and also allows a lot of air for cooling.

I know this will come up tiny, but maybe it'll give you an idea...: