US Army Sniper school on Discovery
 

Somehow I pondered upon these from an American Sniper Airsoft forum, Pretty interesting, gave me some creative ideas for the next Sniper course Sha Do runs when im around.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97kSS...niper%20school

PArt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYPRP...niper%20school

Nice Find :)

Btw... If you have it, on A&E at 9h00pm there's a documentary about Lima company USMC in Irak

awesome find , I'll make sure to share it with people interested. Very instructive

Nice find.

Any idea when Sha Do is running another course?

To answer your question, I dont know, I havent been around as im in Pet doing some training. The next time I talk to him I will ask and post on the forum on his behalf. I have a feeling he will run one when im not around, that means I cannot conduct a sniper boot camp.....dammit.......lots of PT.....

Unfortunatly I dont have that channel....Doh

Nice Find, I never knew it was that physically and mentally demanding.

Sweet, I just caught the end of it on the discovery channel it was great to see the whole thing this time around.

Are there techniques they teach you for memorization and situational awareness, or is that memory test just a weed-out technique?

I think I have this one on disk.

The memory test you see in the clip is what we here in Canada call KIMS games. These help aid soldiers's memories, especially if your in Recce. If you conduct a recce of an enemy postion and cannot remember things you have seen when you return back to your camp, then your no use to your commander. therefor the KIMS games is like an exercise for the brain and it helps a soldier remember what he/she has seen after a period of time. In an ideal world you would write and draw things down, but sometimes there is no time or the mission does not allow you to do so in case you get captured.

I dont know if the Army in the States uses the memory test to weed out cadidates, but here in Canada it is used to aid in ones memory and is an exellent exercise to aid in ones memory retention after a recce.

If I missed out on anything please add on, and if im wrong in what I wrote correct me, as it has been a while since I have done this stuff :-D

If im around for Sha Do's next sniper course ill conduct some KIMS games, I will start off with just a few easy objects then make things a lil more difficult for those who want to.

What I have done for the KIMS games is the instructor would have us go for a 5-6km run, along the route there would be typical objects that would be encountered such as a helmet, rifle (rubber), pistol (rubber), canteen, bayonet, clothing articles (typically what the enemy uses), etc. Once we completed the run, we continued with training, at the end of the day the instructor handed us paper and asked us to jot down every object we seen. Typically its done a half hour after, but the instructor decided to do at the end of the day, I believe its the proper way of doing this as your missions can last up to a day or even days.

Ok, thanks!

So... would you typically find that with time and practice, memorization actually gets better?

I only ask because I don't know much about how the memory works, and whether there are tricks and techniques for memorizing things...

I am no expert, but im basing from my experience that the KIMS games have helped, and others that have done it as well, they too say it helps. Im sure there is someone on these boards that have studied how the long and short term memory work when it comes to KIMS games and other exercises that help in memeory retention and later have that info extracted.

youtube removed the video, anyone who can post a link for another copy of it?