A student assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, who is in the Special Forces Weapons Sergeant course, fires a mortar from an M253 Cannon during training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina Sept. 9, 2019. Soldiers in the course were trained in employing, maintaining and engaging targets with select U.S. and foreign light weapons, heavy weapons, anti-armor weapons, crew-served weapons and mortars, and in the utilization of observed fire procedures. (U.S. Army photo illustration by K. Kassens)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Sniper teams from special-operations units, federal and state law enforcement agencies along with foreign competitors from around the globe converged on the Special Forces Sniper Course to put their skills to the test in this year’s United States Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition.
Twenty-four teams, including four foreign teams, competed for one year of bragging rights to say they are the best in their business. Each team is comprised of one shooter and a spotter.
Each team faced 19 challenging events in every aspect of sniper operations in both day and night events, which were derived from Special Forces Sniper Course instructors building their own event based off real world...
