Same. I tripped on a guy in a g suit while playing 50v50 paintball in a 30 acre forest. Never thought they'd be that well hidden. Good thing he was on my team. 😅
I got walked on by a 6 foot 2 like 250-300lbs dude once while wearing a Ghillie suit, I was 5"3' and like 120 at the time and had to bite my wrist to keep from making a noise as he stood on me without knowing, I proceeded to wipe him and the 5 guys he was with and magdumped on the guy who stood on me, they still never saw me
@@JeremiahDouglas If you've never truly had to drag yourself across the ground with your full body/face directly on the ground (zero verticality, zero picking up anything) it's hard to imagine how much effort it takes to go a few meters, let alone a few miles, let alone 10 fucking miles.
@goldenhate6649 he literally did that in the field by himself stalking that NVA generally. With the added pressure of being unsanctioned outside of Vietnam
Ahahahah truth! Every single time, i look up wife standing at the bottom Of the stairs glaring hand on hip, disgusted look on her face. Only words spoken is “really dude”?
@@anthonyvincent804 lots of people do, i'm a vet and even within the monoculture of the military there are a lot of guys who are very dismissive of enemy capabilities in combat. you'd be shocked how many people walk around thinking it'll be anybody but them. the most humble soldiers are the ones who've actually taken effective fire and understand their mortality on a level nobody should ever reach.
There is a story from one of my instructors. During his bootcamp, there were some snipers stationed at his base for an exercise and the officers in charge thought it'd be funny to have the snipers hide in the woods and send the fresh recruits in to search for them. He proudly told us that he was the first to find one... when he accidentally stepped on the sniper's hand.
What he meant by this story is he felt proud he found him, but if he stepped on his hand that means he would’ve been dead long before he hand the chance to get that close to him. Which is why it must’ve been funny he was so proud of that lol
My father was a US marine sniper in the 90s through the 2000s. Crazy to watch this because he has also told me about how most soldiers do not pass this but when you look at the data the ones who do pass take 2-3x times longer to accomplish the mission. Patience is hard to maintain when you are in a poppy field for 72 hours and have to setup optics on a terrorist base within 100m so you crawl in at night moving about 5-10 ft every hour or two on your stomach in a gilly. During the sunlight hours no movement. You are as snipers say “in purgatory”. Then sighting your target, neutralizing them, and then extracting 5 miles through mountainous terrain (he mentioned hearing dogs at this time and if they would have caught scent he was a goner). My old man works at Walmart now, stocking in the evenings. His co workers have no idea the caliber of man they are standing next to. Semper Fi.
I'm talking shit, but this guy's been out of the service long enough to grow dreds, and wear glasses? Plus he doesn't sound even remotely like he was a trained sniper. But what do I know 😅
We had a guy transfer in to our Dustoff unit who was a sniper for his first 4 years of his career before becoming a flight medic, and the story he told me of his stalk test was wild. The margin for error is much like aviation. There is none.
I was an AC-130J Gunner. This is so true. Our spec ops guys were best of the best. Our gunner instructors, knew shit I would have NEVER known without being next to them during flight. Shit is absolutely insanely hard. Also 130s are easy compared to 22's... So... not even a remote chance. We are a .01%
The captain for the company I was in camouflaged himself so well that when we were all standing around getting instruction, it looked like he reformed from the earth when he stood up. I'll never forget that I was looking right at him and never saw him before he revealed himself.
So you guys get paid for killing people that don´t think like you, have different religion and government type like you so evil rich people can profit?
Respect.Im from from Zagreb Croatia where also war was.yust want to say respect to every person that contribute for me and my doughter to have our independent contry Croatia.
@@uncleben8012 He told that he is grateful for living in Croatia , country that was in war from 1991-1995.. and he is grateful for our father's who was fighting that war we are foreigners but at least we learned your language you don't know s**t about ours... Mamu ti jebem 😊
One dude in my unit was going through sniper school as we were on a mission and just so happen to be walking through where he was hidden. We didn’t see him and he was right next to us. He whispered and said to keep walking because his instructor was in the area looking for him. So what he is saying in the video is really real!!
Your unit is at sniper school, where you also "run missions"? 😂 It's not an online or correspondence course. They don't come to you and teach/evaluate you. You go to them. What the hell are you on about?
When I passed my last stalk for my go I was almost out of time for my shot and couldn’t find a loophole so I ended up taking my shot at the driver from the seated/kneeling position. Driver walked the cadre right into me. I could feel the man’s package on my shoulder. Driver said “one step forward” three times and the guy basically jumped me and said “ dude don’t fucking move”. I heard driver say “go around that bush” and a few seconds later, incorrectly, “sniper at your feet.” What a huge sense of relief. I always thought he probably assumed nobody would ever be so brazen as to shoot from a seated position xd . I waited for about 15 minutes before taking the world’s slowest exfil.
My homie was a sniper in the rangers and his brother was a ranger also they both went to to Iraq in 2004-2011 both went very crazy over there. Poor guys suffer bad still to this day from the horrors of war.
Yeah shooting people to death can do that to good people. Its really horrible that we send our poorest young Americans and people to battle when war begins at the whim of rich old men and women who never struggled their entire lives, many times. Its gross asf we still live in a feudal society in many ways
My Father was a Ranger and spoke of this and I remember he and one of his buddies showed us just how effective this is...and we could NOT fucking see them bro! Like WTF! That's some creepy shit, but necessary. Man, you boys are some BAD MFs! 👊🏿🙏🏿🔥🇺🇸💪🏿
The hardest part wasnt the stalk itself, it was finding a good position before the instructors yelled "freeze!" You only have 3 hrs to infil and exfil and if you take your time once the freezes start your basically just looking for a tree stack.
I knew a special forces sniper who told me the worst part about his stalking phase was one of the instructors who they nicknamed the bird dog because when he was standing near you he would stare at you and the other instructors would know where to look
Good hunters make the best stalkers , they already know slow , quiet and concealment. It’s easier for hunters as you don’t have to deal with scent on the wind that spooks the target.
@user-mg6ce6sy2c no, they only have hearing and smell senses that dwarf humans 😂😂😂 someone's never been hunting and it shows. Yes they are colorblind but they can literally see your breath when there is snow on the ground 😂😂😂😂😂
Last test on last day of my course and it was the last 1 I needed and I missed out. Longest & hardest course I ever did. Have nothing but respect for anyone who passes.
The job of the sniper is a dying field by virtue of the fact that crazy advancements in long-range thermal optics and cheap drones is removing the need to put such men at risk...
@@zeroculture7066 Agreed - I think a lot of the skills espoused by experienced snipers could be used to great effect if shared with the surveillance and suicide drone pilot community.
@@abeed87 Only in assymetric warfare against much less capable enemies, not against near-peer adversaries. Ask any US Marine what it's like to be a sniper against Australian Army guys during Talisman Sabre every year or so... When the attacking force has thousands of dollars of tech on every man, and those men are trained to the level you are, your fancy sniper skills begin to have much less effect than they would have on an illiterate farmer weilding an AK-47 and less than 100 rounds of ammunition.
Well, honestly, in battle, you have no choice you kinda have to especially if you’re the only person and there was all enemies around you like the situation he’s explaining
@@misogynisticfish4254 bro this isn’t a video game sniping isn’t like your games. It’s not just him walking into enemy territory finding a spot and sniping random people, and they are almost never by them selfs 💯
Our unit was taught ghost walking by a Native-American tracker/hunter. Game changer for wooded operations (especially after basic drills "drive your heel!" into you).
Every time I see this guy, I think about the time where he literally said that if you fire a large enough caliber near somebody, it would kill them. And cause harm, the reality is a bullet spins. And cuts through the air, and while it causes minor distortions in that process, none of those distortions are concussive enough to cause damage. If he was the sniper, he claims to be, then he would know that and so I can't trust anything he says
"A .50bmg will rip extremities off from 3 feet away" there were people in a thread defending him by saying it was a common misconception , any vet or active service member I know just laughs at him for that statement!
Reminds me of the video back in 2017 of the supposed General saying that an "AR-15 is full semi automatic and kids like it because it looks cool" I cannot trust anything either of these 2 humans say
They hardly ever know what they mean. Lol. They called the guy w an AK during the Bundy Standoff a "sniper"....didn't even have an optic on his weapon. 😂
Never went to basic myself but one thing I do understand is the concept of perception. Your not trying to make yourself unseen, your trying to make sure that whoever is looking at you, doesnt actually see you. Its a vastly different mindset to have when staying stealth. Thats about all I understand though lol.
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"...and that's like hard to do." As a civilian with absolutely no real life experience whatsoever, the entire story sounds to me like an exaggerated SF movie. Plain and simple, "stalking phase" not only it sounds impossible, but if I were to be playing a video game and the task to complete the level of the game is to do all the things he said they had to do in Sniper School, I would still say it's impossible to do/complete/achieve and "I'm in a video game". I think this pretty much sums up the level of determination, dedication, discipline, focus, intellect, calmness and uttermost readiness at the same time it takes in order to tryout to see are you one of 0.00001% of people to join the most elite snipers in the world.
It’s really an exercise in personal ego death at that point, you have to do whatever is cognitively necessary for you to achieve a goal. Logical thinking and reasoning becomes secondary to an ideological goal, you will blend and mesh whatever needs to be in order to see things the way they need to be seen. Your perception at that point has to become goal oriented.
Here in Canada, for stalking we had a bunch of signs in a random field in different positions in the bush with codes on them. You’d have to sneak up to each point and write down the code and at the end of the exercise you’d have to say the coded message to the instructor. You’d have counter snipers on a platform that would do as this guys suggesting. You’d radio other instructors to certain positions when you spotted someone. The counter snipers would have to be within the sticks reach to “kill” the stalking sniper and if you got them they’d have to restart all the way back to the starting point. Rinse and repeat for hours. Prone and crawling for hours is gruelling over a vast distance. We would change up the fields as sometimes it would be a mock city, open fields, forests with a mix of fields etc. the instructors would set the signs up while the recruits all got ready at the starting point.
This is what I will tell you I was in the marine corps and they bought in a sniper to teach us about snipers. They told us to find him that was the first thing they said to us upon us arriving we spent about 10 minutes trying. Instructor said for the sniper to reveal himself the MF WAS 10 feet in front of us with a rifle and a pack 🤦🏾♂️
@@des7334 oh we had that phase when you’re scanning the tree line and you’re like wait wtf! When they tell you to find all the foreign objects on the tree line and then a dude popped up fully ghil suit on and I’m like well fuck me im dead lol. Good times
I've been doing this with deer for years. I've snuck to within feet of an entire herd. The deer don't even herd where we are, it was crazy. I've never seen anything like it. There were deer everywhere and I was right in the middle of them. I was standing in middle of trail, mid step, foot off the ground when the first doe came onto trail about 20 yds from me and I froze for literally 10-15 minutes like that. Guess I looked like a tree bc it didn't spook.
@@FloydGotti804na try it without a "group" of deer...or a group of people. Of course the group is gonna distract each other🤷🏾♂️or have a more false sense of safety
I passed that part of the course with flying colors. And the reason I passed, is because I wasn't there. Sergeant just thought I was camouflaged that good.... 😂😂😂😂
cmon man, you didnt believe that did you? He was trolling the shit out of that clown reporter. even a tank round zipping past your head wont hurt. Gonna fuck up your mind a bit, but not ripping anything off.
I’ve never fired a round in my life and even I knew that was utter bullshit. He made his living as a soldier; now he wants to to talk for a living and tell tall tales.
This was always something I thought about trying to do bc I love hiding and concealing myself under pillows and blankets and clothes and stuff any chance I can get to make people think I’ve vanished. They’ll walk around the house looking for me and I’m just focusing on not laughing and breathing. It’s so fun! Ik I’m a weirdo.
Why do I feel like the government doesn’t care if its soldiers come back and only if they get the shot off. So this attribute shouldn’t have a bigger impact than your actual aim.
Imagine investing millions of dollars in training and equipment just for your whole platoon to die on their first deployment. Government wants them to survive so they can get sent back there for multiple deployments.
They care. Remember on on the first Jason Bourne movie? He asks his commander “who am I?” and his commander tells him he is a 5million dollar government weapon thats malfunctioning. Each special forces soldier is not a just a person. They are a tool for our armed forces. they are an expensive & rare tool.
That myth originated because their tracers would look like a barely miss but it actually barely connected and took the guys' arm off then it got told to like every new recruit over nad over again it was a tall tale that people just took as fact because there were so many people talking about it
😂not everyone has thermals also u probably wouldn’t have a ghilie suit on in an urban environment also they have thermal blankets that hide ur heat signature
I remember the series , Surviving the Cut, and the Army Sniper Episode was tough! The stalker faze was very interesting to watch. One of the candidates actually had a close call with a rattlesnake crawling up towards him while he was hidden.
“Private, I didn’t see you at camouflage practice yesterday!”
“Thank you sir!”
Lol. Nice
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Dude A++ comment 😂
Lmao
Sheesh😮💨 people’s jokes are so creative 😂💪🏾
I never realized how invisible someone is in a ghillie suit until I played airsoft and some mf was 2 Ft away from me and I couldn’t see him
can confirm lmao it seems so silly but man even a bad suit is hard to see
@@MrPacman64especially if the person is below or above eye level
Same. I tripped on a guy in a g suit while playing 50v50 paintball in a 30 acre forest. Never thought they'd be that well hidden. Good thing he was on my team. 😅
Bro the amount of times I get caught off gaurd by a guy in a ghillie.
I got walked on by a 6 foot 2 like 250-300lbs dude once while wearing a Ghillie suit, I was 5"3' and like 120 at the time and had to bite my wrist to keep from making a noise as he stood on me without knowing, I proceeded to wipe him and the 5 guys he was with and magdumped on the guy who stood on me, they still never saw me
This explanation makes Hathcocks story that much more impressive
hathcock never had somebody pointing out were he was at
@@JeremiahDouglasbrother he crawled 5 miles on his stomach and then crawled back the 5 miles to extract lol
@@JeremiahDouglas If you've never truly had to drag yourself across the ground with your full body/face directly on the ground (zero verticality, zero picking up anything) it's hard to imagine how much effort it takes to go a few meters, let alone a few miles, let alone 10 fucking miles.
Not to diss on Hathcock, but he didn't have to do this. This school didn't exist in this form at that time.
@goldenhate6649 he literally did that in the field by himself stalking that NVA generally. With the added pressure of being unsanctioned outside of Vietnam
I can't even stalk some late night snacks without waking the whole house up😂
😂😂
hahahahhaha😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Ahahahah truth! Every single time, i look up wife standing at the bottom
Of the stairs glaring hand on hip, disgusted look on her face. Only words spoken is “really dude”?
@@kroekadoke8212 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They had a good example of this in the movie Clear and Present danger. Sniper kept making shots. All they found was his lunch wrapper.
"How did you get so close to me"
"Sir by being a sneaky son of a bitch sir"
Love that movie.
I was just going to mention this. Wonderful movie. Lot of great actors.
Chavez do you know what the fine is for littering?
Great call... I was thinking about this exact scene... And boom it's in the comments...
All about precision and perfection. They're not looking for a good candidate they're looking for a flawless candidate
Well that’s impossible
@@mcpiglet4379Hence the sheer amount of drop outs - as while it doesn't have to be flawless, it needs to *look* flawless.
@@Zenith_Deusas bad as it sounds the times it isn’t flawless is when they lose their life
@@mcpiglet4379nope muscle memory exersize y’all might be young comes with age
What?😂 @@KingCompton
this is why i laugh at people who think they are untouchable . Just because you cant see it doesnt mean it cannot see you!
Who thinks they’re untouchable. Some kid on xbox?
@@anthonyvincent804 lots of people do, i'm a vet and even within the monoculture of the military there are a lot of guys who are very dismissive of enemy capabilities in combat. you'd be shocked how many people walk around thinking it'll be anybody but them. the most humble soldiers are the ones who've actually taken effective fire and understand their mortality on a level nobody should ever reach.
Drunk people 😂
@@mikejarrett-w4i wonder if guys think like that cause it's been so many years without a peer to peer war too much Time in the sandbox
It makes it quite terrifying knowing in a conflict you could be killed without knowing it.
"And that's like hard to do" the understatement of the year.
My first thought lol
"no shit!" is what i said out loud😂
That part made me laugh out loud
scrolled just to find a like minded commenter before i comment the same 😂
Right lmaooo bro just said it like he ain’t talkin about doing something only a handful of people on the planet can do 😂
There is a story from one of my instructors. During his bootcamp, there were some snipers stationed at his base for an exercise and the officers in charge thought it'd be funny to have the snipers hide in the woods and send the fresh recruits in to search for them.
He proudly told us that he was the first to find one... when he accidentally stepped on the sniper's hand.
Bullshit
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@mustbetrue1602 Yeah but you can feel you're standing on something soft instead of dirt.
What he meant by this story is he felt proud he found him, but if he stepped on his hand that means he would’ve been dead long before he hand the chance to get that close to him. Which is why it must’ve been funny he was so proud of that lol
😂😂😂😂 ooops my bad, that hurt?, you good? Can you still shoot?
My father was a US marine sniper in the 90s through the 2000s. Crazy to watch this because he has also told me about how most soldiers do not pass this but when you look at the data the ones who do pass take 2-3x times longer to accomplish the mission. Patience is hard to maintain when you are in a poppy field for 72 hours and have to setup optics on a terrorist base within 100m so you crawl in at night moving about 5-10 ft every hour or two on your stomach in a gilly. During the sunlight hours no movement. You are as snipers say “in purgatory”. Then sighting your target, neutralizing them, and then extracting 5 miles through mountainous terrain (he mentioned hearing dogs at this time and if they would have caught scent he was a goner). My old man works at Walmart now, stocking in the evenings. His co workers have no idea the caliber of man they are standing next to. Semper Fi.
Wow that is impressive...thanks for explaining to because I did not understand the video..
“And that’s like hard to do” 😆
“And that’s all I have to say about that” -Forrest Gump
I came here to comment that 😂
@@ericsuarez2571same
he said that like he was confused about whether it was hard or not 😂
I'm talking shit, but this guy's been out of the service long enough to grow dreds, and wear glasses? Plus he doesn't sound even remotely like he was a trained sniper. But what do I know 😅
We had a guy transfer in to our Dustoff unit who was a sniper for his first 4 years of his career before becoming a flight medic, and the story he told me of his stalk test was wild. The margin for error is much like aviation. There is none.
Yep cus once they see you it’s all shots no chances
Margin for error in aviation depends on how high up you are and how the weather/traffic looks for the most part. But i get your point
I was an AC-130J Gunner. This is so true. Our spec ops guys were best of the best. Our gunner instructors, knew shit I would have NEVER known without being next to them during flight. Shit is absolutely insanely hard.
Also 130s are easy compared to 22's... So... not even a remote chance. We are a .01%
@@BoringFlightVids no, I'm referring more so to the side of maintenance in aviation.
Did he explains the politics too ? Bc just being good doesn't mn much
Same in the Marine Corps. Stalking drops most of the failures.
INDEED !
sniper at your feet !
@@temujinsy1102 AYE AYEE SSGT
it's the one thing where brains is needed and the USMC doesn't have much of it
@@sosig6445 some of the most intelligent individuals i’ve met in the military are marines
Yep my boy got dropped that way😂😂😂 2/7
The captain for the company I was in camouflaged himself so well that when we were all standing around getting instruction, it looked like he reformed from the earth when he stood up. I'll never forget that I was looking right at him and never saw him before he revealed himself.
So you guys get paid for killing people that don´t think like you, have different religion and government type like you so evil rich people can profit?
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Oooow😊
That's why he's the Reaper! One of the best that ever done it..
“And that’s like hard to do” I can't even pull that on Call of Duty.
Checking the comments before I said it..😅
@@JohnDillinger-ko8bcwas you really gonna say that? I don’t believe you 😮
Be where they don’t expect you to be, CoD is good for tht since everybody pretty much plays super predictable now
i mean. the ghillie suits stand out so damn much in that game so thats not hard.
still an utterly dog shit game anymore
@@svartrbrisingr6141 fr 😔
Respect.Im from from Zagreb Croatia where also war was.yust want to say respect to every person that contribute for me and my doughter to have our independent contry Croatia.
Good luck to you 🙏🏻
Svi smo sused, samo ne vjerujem da su se za ovakvu borili
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I can tell your foreign by the way you type so good for u dude
@@uncleben8012 He told that he is grateful for living in Croatia , country that was in war from 1991-1995.. and he is grateful for our father's who was fighting that war we are foreigners but at least we learned your language you don't know s**t about ours... Mamu ti jebem 😊
Saw this on a tv show like 20 years ago, it was pretty crazy how well they blend in.
You are probably thinking of "Clear and Present Danger", one of the Jack Ryan films, with Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe and some other badasses
"And that's like, hard to do."
The fact that he did it and passed should tell you how committed he was 💪🏾
This guy has been called out by multiple veterans for being full of shit and blatantly lying.
@@TravisTovar-fx8rzhow you know if the veterans are right?
@@TravisTovar-fx8rz and I’m sure the numbers are even higher for the ones that can vouch for him. Dude literally has accommodations for his service.
Clear and Present Danger has the perfect scene to demonstrate this training.
I was going to make this comment. Just watched it the other day
Hard to do....understatement of the year
Passed every stalk failed every observation stand until test week
😂same here
Same here as well 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Congratulations!!!
I’m sure you did
@@daviddavis-pz4cd 🫡
One dude in my unit was going through sniper school as we were on a mission and just so happen to be walking through where he was hidden. We didn’t see him and he was right next to us. He whispered and said to keep walking because his instructor was in the area looking for him. So what he is saying in the video is really real!!
Your unit is at sniper school, where you also "run missions"? 😂 It's not an online or correspondence course. They don't come to you and teach/evaluate you. You go to them. What the hell are you on about?
I never get tired of his stories.
He's telling the truth. I passed school, and it was hard af.
No you didn’t
Sure you did
@@Kees.814 mabye
sure, whatever you say Willreed. If that's even your real name..
@@coreyellis3327 lmfao
When I passed my last stalk for my go I was almost out of time for my shot and couldn’t find a loophole so I ended up taking my shot at the driver from the seated/kneeling position. Driver walked the cadre right into me. I could feel the man’s package on my shoulder. Driver said “one step forward” three times and the guy basically jumped me and said “ dude don’t fucking move”. I heard driver say “go around that bush” and a few seconds later, incorrectly, “sniper at your feet.” What a huge sense of relief. I always thought he probably assumed nobody would ever be so brazen as to shoot from a seated position xd . I waited for about 15 minutes before taking the world’s slowest exfil.
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Bull 💩
My homie was a sniper in the rangers and his brother was a ranger also they both went to to Iraq in 2004-2011 both went very crazy over there. Poor guys suffer bad still to this day from the horrors of war.
Yeah shooting people to death can do that to good people. Its really horrible that we send our poorest young Americans and people to battle when war begins at the whim of rich old men and women who never struggled their entire lives, many times. Its gross asf we still live in a feudal society in many ways
From the heat. 2007
I'm sorry to hear this
Bro I love listening to his stories 💯
When I hear someone discussing this topic I always think back to that scene in Clear and Present Danger for some reason.
Same!
He had lunch here sir quarter pounder with cheese.
The best feeling ever is hearing "sniper at your feet" on the instructors radio and you are not at his feet.
My Father was a Ranger and spoke of this and I remember he and one of his buddies showed us just how effective this is...and we could NOT fucking see them bro! Like WTF! That's some creepy shit, but necessary.
Man, you boys are some BAD MFs! 👊🏿🙏🏿🔥🇺🇸💪🏿
The hardest part wasnt the stalk itself, it was finding a good position before the instructors yelled "freeze!" You only have 3 hrs to infil and exfil and if you take your time once the freezes start your basically just looking for a tree stack.
Again, once u see, u never unsee. Changes u 💯
thank you for your service
"and that's like hard to do"
I think that's the understatement of the year
You’re still alive to tell the story which is impressive
they dont kill you at sniper school lol
@@sidewinder3316yeah, but this guy has been in some shit. This is Nick Irving, aka The Reaper
I knew a special forces sniper who told me the worst part about his stalking phase was one of the instructors who they nicknamed the bird dog because when he was standing near you he would stare at you and the other instructors would know where to look
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Having had a little brother or sister may or may not help candidates overcome 😂😂😂
I watched Marine Scout Snipers do this in Lejeune and Camp Fallujah in 2006, extremely impressive. Glad their on our side lol
“That’s like hard to do”…Definitely an understatement
There's a great scene in clear and present danger that basically is the training process he's describing
Yeah he ate a quarter pounder with cheese 🍔🍔😂 for lunch.
"How the hell did you get that close?"
"THE SNIPER APPROACHED THE INSTRUCTOR BY BEING A SNEAKY BASTARD! SIR!"
@@madhatter2695 😁
Thank you! I was racking my brain trying to remember where I saw that! Haha
“And that’s like hard to do” 😂 understatement
Good hunters make the best stalkers , they already know slow , quiet and concealment. It’s easier for hunters as you don’t have to deal with scent on the wind that spooks the target.
Well that deer isn’t shooting back
@@pauldean8638 deer dont have binoculars or binocular vision like humans and they're colorblind.
@user-mg6ce6sy2c no, they only have hearing and smell senses that dwarf humans 😂😂😂 someone's never been hunting and it shows. Yes they are colorblind but they can literally see your breath when there is snow on the ground 😂😂😂😂😂
I know guys who eat the foods of the people they are going to be watching.
What? @@Mymainisimdeath
"And thats like really hard.." 😅😅 Nick is the man lmfao
Last test on last day of my course and it was the last 1 I needed and I missed out. Longest & hardest course I ever did. Have nothing but respect for anyone who passes.
The job of the sniper is a dying field by virtue of the fact that crazy advancements in long-range thermal optics and cheap drones is removing the need to put such men at risk...
Urban warfare
True, but i think the skill set is still incredibly useful, if only in niche applications
@@zeroculture7066 Agreed - I think a lot of the skills espoused by experienced snipers could be used to great effect if shared with the surveillance and suicide drone pilot community.
@@abeed87 Only in assymetric warfare against much less capable enemies, not against near-peer adversaries. Ask any US Marine what it's like to be a sniper against Australian Army guys during Talisman Sabre every year or so... When the attacking force has thousands of dollars of tech on every man, and those men are trained to the level you are, your fancy sniper skills begin to have much less effect than they would have on an illiterate farmer weilding an AK-47 and less than 100 rounds of ammunition.
@@Funkteonbut there's still snipers in the ukraine war, although I'd assume in a very different capacity
I watched a series when i was younger that i cant remember the name of but he is describing that episode 100% to the T of what sniper school is
i wonder how many times he successfully pulled that same thing off in battle
Well, honestly, in battle, you have no choice you kinda have to especially if you’re the only person and there was all enemies around you like the situation he’s explaining
@@misogynisticfish4254 bro this isn’t a video game sniping isn’t like your games. It’s not just him walking into enemy territory finding a spot and sniping random people, and they are almost never by them selfs 💯
@@misogynisticfish4254you have 0 knowledge of actual combat. Snipers almost never go out alone, would be disadvantages as a tactic
He has 33 conformed kills. Thats Nicholas "The Reaper" Irving
He would have been urban shooting. It's a different skill set. Closer ranges, no gillies, no folliage.
"That's like hard to do" Understatement of the year
Our unit was taught ghost walking by a Native-American tracker/hunter. Game changer for wooded operations (especially after basic drills "drive your heel!" into you).
Every time I see this guy, I think about the time where he literally said that if you fire a large enough caliber near somebody, it would kill them. And cause harm, the reality is a bullet spins. And cuts through the air, and while it causes minor distortions in that process, none of those distortions are concussive enough to cause damage. If he was the sniper, he claims to be, then he would know that and so I can't trust anything he says
"A .50bmg will rip extremities off from 3 feet away" there were people in a thread defending him by saying it was a common misconception , any vet or active service member I know just laughs at him for that statement!
Reminds me of the video back in 2017 of the supposed General saying that an "AR-15 is full semi automatic and kids like it because it looks cool" I cannot trust anything either of these 2 humans say
This explanation of a "True Sniper" is why I get so disgusted with the media's use/ overuse of the term. They usually mean 'Sharp Shooter'.
doesnt take much to offend you sir
They hardly ever know what they mean. Lol. They called the guy w an AK during the Bundy Standoff a "sniper"....didn't even have an optic on his weapon. 😂
Never went to basic myself but one thing I do understand is the concept of perception. Your not trying to make yourself unseen, your trying to make sure that whoever is looking at you, doesnt actually see you. Its a vastly different mindset to have when staying stealth. Thats about all I understand though lol.
l really enjoyed that class alot of fun actually . Pay attention to your instructors !! Their stories will amaze you about patience !!
I heard about that course. But the way he describes it is way harder than first description.👍👍👏👏
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I have my bravo four and stalking was the stud killer. I’ll never forget, dude held up an upside down L. You also have to stalk back too
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Only white ppl know how to do that,lol
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@@droidnick what's a d3?
@@tonyhoward6447 Cav scout i believe
"...and that's like hard to do."
As a civilian with absolutely no real life experience whatsoever, the entire story sounds to me like an exaggerated SF movie.
Plain and simple, "stalking phase" not only it sounds impossible, but if I were to be playing a video game and the task to complete the level of the game is to do all the things he said they had to do in Sniper School, I would still say it's impossible to do/complete/achieve and "I'm in a video game".
I think this pretty much sums up the level of determination, dedication, discipline, focus, intellect, calmness and uttermost readiness at the same time it takes in order to tryout to see are you one of 0.00001% of people to join the most elite snipers in the world.
It’s really an exercise in personal ego death at that point, you have to do whatever is cognitively necessary for you to achieve a goal. Logical thinking and reasoning becomes secondary to an ideological goal, you will blend and mesh whatever needs to be in order to see things the way they need to be seen.
Your perception at that point has to become goal oriented.
@@clevernamehere7559@fbi this guy does drugs
Here in Canada, for stalking we had a bunch of signs in a random field in different positions in the bush with codes on them. You’d have to sneak up to each point and write down the code and at the end of the exercise you’d have to say the coded message to the instructor. You’d have counter snipers on a platform that would do as this guys suggesting. You’d radio other instructors to certain positions when you spotted someone. The counter snipers would have to be within the sticks reach to “kill” the stalking sniper and if you got them they’d have to restart all the way back to the starting point. Rinse and repeat for hours. Prone and crawling for hours is gruelling over a vast distance. We would change up the fields as sometimes it would be a mock city, open fields, forests with a mix of fields etc. the instructors would set the signs up while the recruits all got ready at the starting point.
This is what I will tell you I was in the marine corps and they bought in a sniper to teach us about snipers. They told us to find him that was the first thing they said to us upon us arriving we spent about 10 minutes trying. Instructor said for the sniper to reveal himself the MF WAS 10 feet in front of us with a rifle and a pack 🤦🏾♂️
@@des7334 oh we had that phase when you’re scanning the tree line and you’re like wait wtf! When they tell you to find all the foreign objects on the tree line and then a dude popped up fully ghil suit on and I’m like well fuck me im dead lol. Good times
I respect this man so.much
“And that’s like, hard to do.” Is an all time understatement given the described action.
I've been doing this with deer for years. I've snuck to within feet of an entire herd. The deer don't even herd where we are, it was crazy. I've never seen anything like it. There were deer everywhere and I was right in the middle of them. I was standing in middle of trail, mid step, foot off the ground when the first doe came onto trail about 20 yds from me and I froze for literally 10-15 minutes like that. Guess I looked like a tree bc it didn't spook.
Now try it with armed enemies. Same same right?
@@FloydGotti804na try it without a "group" of deer...or a group of people. Of course the group is gonna distract each other🤷🏾♂️or have a more false sense of safety
@@FloydGotti804go give somebody a hug
@@FloydGotti804 Yeah, because he said it was the same, right right? Idiot.
This the most made up bull shit ever.
What a punk
I am a vet and sniper school is very very hard to finish.
I passed that part of the course with flying colors.
And the reason I passed, is because I wasn't there. Sergeant just thought I was camouflaged that good.... 😂😂😂😂
Great scene of this in Clear and Present Danger. Ding Chavez is sneaky.
That's why they're called The Best of the Best
That summary sums it up perfectly "and that's like, hard to do"
After this guys statement about 50 cal rounds I don't believe a single word out of his mouth
Yup.
cmon man, you didnt believe that did you?
He was trolling the shit out of that clown reporter.
even a tank round zipping past your head wont hurt.
Gonna fuck up your mind a bit, but not ripping anything off.
Have you seen him shoot long range 😂
EXACTLY
I’ve never fired a round in my life and even I knew that was utter bullshit. He made his living as a soldier; now he wants to to talk for a living and tell tall tales.
Bro ..that’s not just hard ..that’s crazy ridiculous hard
This was always something I thought about trying to do bc I love hiding and concealing myself under pillows and blankets and clothes and stuff any chance I can get to make people think I’ve vanished. They’ll walk around the house looking for me and I’m just focusing on not laughing and breathing. It’s so fun! Ik I’m a weirdo.
Nick is such a bro
My ex would pass the stalking phase
Why do I feel like the government doesn’t care if its soldiers come back and only if they get the shot off. So this attribute shouldn’t have a bigger impact than your actual aim.
Imagine investing millions of dollars in training and equipment just for your whole platoon to die on their first deployment. Government wants them to survive so they can get sent back there for multiple deployments.
In US the family get yearly money if they die in combat
So you'd rather die than miss a shot?
But as soon as the war ends they don't give a flying fuck. @@Trisco2
They care. Remember on on the first Jason Bourne movie? He asks his commander “who am I?”
and his commander tells him he is a 5million dollar government weapon thats malfunctioning.
Each special forces soldier is not a just a person. They are a tool for our armed forces. they are an expensive & rare tool.
Have to agree, the stalk is where most stumble!
Great description
I’ve passed every stalk test. No girl has found out about me yet.
this guy also said a miss from a sniper would till blow your arm off if its close enough...I can't take this dude serious at all after I heard that.
Just because he was wrong about one thing doesn't mean he's lying. Go see lunkertv his video with him is incredible he's a very talented marksman.
U need jesus
holy shit you commented this and were even more wrong than he was. use your fuckin head kid.
A hater will find any and everything too latch on to as a means for justifying their reason to hate. Your a strange individual, god bless you.
That myth originated because their tracers would look like a barely miss but it actually barely connected and took the guys' arm off then it got told to like every new recruit over nad over again it was a tall tale that people just took as fact because there were so many people talking about it
Clear and Present Danger showed this process
This was the best army ad I ever seen. Made me want to enlist lol cause for like two seconds I was like… I could do it lol 😂
Thermals exist. Ghilles dont do shit in urban warfare.
😂not everyone has thermals also u probably wouldn’t have a ghilie suit on in an urban environment also they have thermal blankets that hide ur heat signature
Have you seen the new LA guilly suits? They ducktape trash all over their body and they blend into their surroundings perfectly.
You don’t know anything do you?
@@GuyFromTheSouthBest Comment Ever !!!!
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hard to do? sounds impossible
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Thats why 70% failed that part and had to drop out. Gotta find the best
@@teemac77 over 75 percent of the world is fools. there you go, if you can be a top 10 percent human, there you go
Guille suits are amazing if u have rhe right one for you surroundings. Especially in the snow or mountains its almost completely undetectable.
Stalking lanes were one of favorite training exercises but yeah their hella hard
Good example of that is in the movie Clear and Present Danger.
"And that's like, hard to do" - wow, what a quote, what a video.
And that's like hard to do is a understatement! Wow
"and dats liek hard to do" sheeeiiiiiitt
Yep. Lateral movements are a killer and lack of patience.
Don't know how accurate the portrayal is, but Clear & Present Danger features this
It's true my friend
“And that’s like, hard to do.” Understatement I’d say.
📌😮Awe....Utterly awestruck at MEN like these🌟
Best freaking quote
" and that's like, hard to do"
Just crazy, this dude is a f-ing national treasure
Patience, self discipline, field craft.
Wish I could spend a day with this guy
Makes me think of the sniper scene in clear and present danger
Hard sounds like an understatement
I remember this from Harrison Ford's 'Clear and Present Danger'.
I remember the series , Surviving the Cut, and the Army Sniper Episode was tough! The stalker faze was very interesting to watch. One of the candidates actually had a close call with a rattlesnake crawling up towards him while he was hidden.
And that's like hard to do. Understatement of the year.
This was fun, did this when i was at finnish military.