The United States Marine Corps has axed its scout sniper platoons.
Since World War II, the elite and deadly units have been attached to infantry battalions. Their exploits are legendary.
However, the service branch has followed through on its promise to reassign the snipers to reconnaissance units.
The Marine Corps Times has more on the development, which officials have ordered to happen immediately:
The message, first reported by Coffee or Die Magazine, said that scout sniper platoons didn’t provide battalion commanders with sufficient “continuous all-weather information gathering.”
The scout platoons are meant to “provide the commander with relevant, reliable, accurate and prompt information,” the message said.
“The shift to a Scout Platoon will allow those Marines to focus their training and evaluations on scouting, providing commanders the right tools to accomplish their mission,” Marine spokesman Capt. Ryan Bruce said in a statement to Marine Corps Times.
Bruce noted that infantry Marines will still have access to precision rifles as necessary.
Scout snipers aren’t the only snipers in the Marine Corps. Some special operators and reconnaissance Marines receive long-range precision fire training.
What do you think of the Marine Corps’ decision? Tell us in the comments below!
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I would expect that Infantry Regimental Commanders will now be screening their battalions for very high expert riflemen and giving them additional training. Always good to have Marines who can hit the bad guys ou beyone 500 yards.
Total and irresponsible. I should know, I served alongside the 3rd Marine LERPS out of Chu Lai in 1970. They got the job done. They were efficient and successful.
OK Revive as Scout Sniper Recon Platoons
Biden folks water down lethal use of the marines again.
The higher in rank they climb, the dumber they get. You are destroying our military! Who do you work for, the CCP?
The commander in cheat does.
Well when an NCO reaches the rank of E7 their spines are surgically removed.
Really ?? Sounds to me like someone got passed over for Gunnery Sergeant !
Another bad decision by Marine leadership, who have never spent a day in combat. Carlos Hathcock is rolling over in his grave…smh.
The most feared individual on the battle field is the SNIPER! SO you take your ACE in the hole and do away with them? ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
In the old days, part of Marine Corps rifle qualification was at 500 yards. Any Marine who could shoot a score of 47 or more out of a perfect 50 score was substantially a sniper. We used an M14 which is still an effective long-range weapon. Woke should have no place in the Marine Corps.
Bureaucrats know best.
Figures, we down grade while China and other enemies to build up
I wonder if China is having their military attend CRT classes, just a thought
Getting very concerned with what is happening to my beloved Corps under his Fraudulency. No tanks, no battalion level snipers, possibly no tube artillery….what gives? I would not be as concerned if I felt we had any general officers or admirals who weren’t all woke and had a backbone, but I am not seeing any who would risk their career to take on that demented cadaver Biden.