Students assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, who are in the Special Operations Technical Exploitation Course, use a laser to photograph a document during fingerprint training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina October 22, 2019. The students in the course were trained in advanced battlefield forensics, on-site identification, capturing and transfering latent prints, document digitization and employment of ballistic imaging devices. (U.S. Army photo 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...
