Re: [DS and SG] Snipers... was other stuff....

Thomas Barclay wrote:

> 2) Snipers got killed a lot. (I'm looking up the figures for John A -
> I think there were few if any Sniper casualties in Vietnam).

Of course, on the Eastern Front in WWII where both sides had serious
sniper programs (You think that 13mm Soviet thing was being hauled
around to knock out King Tigers?) and serious counter-sniper doctrine,
things were a bit different.  When the penalty for being spotted is
either artillery on your head or the other side's sniper popping you,
it's a whole different ball game compared to fighting Viet Cong who
wouldn't have been able to hit you even if they did know where you were.

John M. Atkinson