How Army Snipers Create Camouflage Ghillie Suits For Combat | Boot Camp | Insider Business
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2021
- Students at the US Army Sniper Course at Fort Benning learn essential skills in marksmanship and fieldcraft, including how to make a ghillie suit. Ghillie suits are a type of camouflage clothing that snipers wear to blend in with their environment. During week two of the Sniper Course, students participate in an event known as a ghillie wash, which is designed to test the suits’ durability as well as to weather and add natural color to the suits. Students’ ghillie suits are put to the test during stalk events, where they cover themselves in natural vegetation and must stealthily move through wooded terrain without being spotted by instructors. Insider spent two days at the US Army Sniper Course to see how students craft their ghillie suits and how they’re utilized during training.
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How Army Snipers Create Camouflage Ghillie Suits For Combat | Boot Camp | Insider Business
Instructor: PRIVATE I DID NOT SEE YOU AT THE CAMO EXERCISE TODAY
P: THANK YOU, SIR!
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All Souls matter to God
Brown, white, red yellow black/ ARE PRECIOUS IN HIS SIGHT!
God made flowers of many colors are all rely on the sun and the rain to grow to flourish.
Before a flower blossoms into its beautiful form it goes through a struggle in the dark. It needs to fight through the soil is God gives it life to pop out into the sunshine with the beautiful testimony of how God gives growth to even a flower how much more important are you than flowers.
And the same way humans go through things of all colors you may not see their struggle to grow you may not see their hearts cries. God does! so we are not to judge upon appearance we need to judge with a righteous judgment. with the word of God! we need to love and encouraged
and build up and not tear down!
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@@livefree316 Can you stop? You're making Christians sound like a bunch of loonies preaching at the most irrelevant times... Please keep your "sermons" or whatever in a place where it's relevant.
@@livefree316 u sound like a karen version of joseph seeds
Best comment on here
@@livefree316 Only gospel you need to know is "Kill'em all and let God sort'em out!"
Wow I didn't realize every ghillie suit is a home made version that they themselves made. Very cool!
Yup! Main reason is because the environment they might be located can vary widely. On mission you are in a snowy forest, the next you could be in a dense jungle.
Usually we have a "base" and add color, texture and shapes based on the terrain. Every sniper has little tricks for the suite they build. I learned how to sew, stitch and apply makeup because of sniper school :)
As i heard the ghillie itself is just made to break the human shape and most of the actual camouflage is vegetation picked on the spot and attached to the ghilie suit,if done correctly you are pretty much invisible
@@rainbow_tactician that's awesome and thank you for your service and Sacrifice 🇺🇸🤘
@@karvast5726 spot on 🎯
Spent 7 years SWAT, 5 years SWAT Snipe…and remember making my ghille! It was a serious endeavor, but turned out perfect! Actually had an officer step on me while deployed on a stand off!
is that true..impressive
Huge respect for u for what have u been trained through , love from 🇻🇳
That is awesome
That's really cool. Were you expected to keep quiet after being stepped on?
Cool story bro, needs more dragons
With his long range, high precision shooting and arts and crafts, the modern day sniper is a force to be reckoned with.
Lol grenaider guards reference from that one old documentary
I’m shivering
Not effective against drones with thermal
@@johncuervo3019 LMFAO exactly.
@@johncuervo3019 You would probably be right if that drone was actively searching for someone. Otherwise they would be flying too high to notice such a small heat image. But if you're in a position where that is a concern then a thick wool blanket can reduce your heat image, I'm sure the military has equipment like that or better to protect themselves from being detected.
I used to airsoft as a teen and I used a sniper and made my own ghillie suit. I bought jute and an old uniform from a military supply. I used dark green and brown dyed burlap for the mesh, and tied in a lot of natural foliage from the environment. Crafting that ghillie suit and using it to blend in might well be the most fun thing I’ve ever done. The feeling of someone walking right by you and being able to blend in, all from your own work in making the suit, it’s a truly great feeling.
This makes me want to take one of my brothers old uniforms and do the same
Hello my friend how are you doing?
Dang that sounds fun
Camouflage so good took Me 3 days to find it in my recommendations
“Very good” joke
Hahaha that was so funny dude
This is so funny, except it isn't
Man you are so funny ill consider laughing when joe Biden becomes a good president
The instructor is SFC Reynolds. He was my first SGT in basic. He’s terrifying
Ahahahah he is brother 😂😂
@@faildude249 Rodriguez! Punta madre!!!
Imagine being part of a military that regularly perpetrates war crimes for the ultra rich and acting remotely proud of this.
@@smellypatel5272 then why are you watching a video about the US military lol
@@gambit7337 because ghillie suits aren't unique to the US army, nor is it relevant given that I'm watching something for entertainment value as opposed to endorsing their terrible cause. Next.
It’s like an extreme game of hide n seek with practice in being a gardener.
@Olivia iciano sure
@Olivia iciano nah G Bitcoin is kinda falling off right now 🤣
More like a florist IMO. Except your girlfriend won’t be impressed with these bouquets, just your buddies.
"Better to be a warrior in a garden then a gardner in a war."
What I've found while bow hunting is that camouflage works great as long as you're motionless. You literally disappear. As soon as you move, you're visible.
yes
motion attracts the eye
now notch that up a level where the deer shoot back to kill you.
Thank you Captain Obvious!
Nice you hunt animals but us real men have animals that shoot back at us.
Which is why you have to move slowly and deliberately so you might go unnoticed and have them over look you.
Ah yes it’s currently midnight, time to learn about ghillie suits
Literally me right now
315 right now
I had a friend who made ghillie suits for paintball games. It was amazing. It was like the Predator. He would disappear in the woods. He became THE guy to find.
that what I did I came up behind my friend's dad who was in the army, and I surprised him.
Very informative! I never thought about how the snipers have to physically test their ghillie suits with mud, water, sand etc. Learned a lot, love this video
you mean "informative"?
@@WeArePharmers I did, thanks for catching that haha
Oh yeah “test our suits” ya that’s it lol… it’s called earning your stripes my dude. It was all good stuff though.
@@James-tp4nc yeah lol none of that was to test the suit. It's a way to see who will crawl thru hell to get to their target. You can almost see them smiling every time they say that.
@@reddog418 idk if they talked about in this video but there were also a bunch of items like dummy weapons, military gear, and other items of importance that you had to recall during a stress test later.
The only bad thing about this episode is it wasn't long enough.
Exactly!
The funny thing is how no one mentions how absurd all of that is... Ok, I'm not american so maybe I lack brainwashing. But wtf is wrong with those young guys?? What are they doing there? Wasting their lives? "Uh... Yeah... Since I'm studpid and afraid I dont want to own my life so instead I will give my life for "my nation"and I will kill the "bad ones" that "superior" peple tell me to kill" ... What a joke...
@@MrZxcvbnm22 If that's your stance on this then you're entitled to it but it's not even worth my time trying to explain to you why people join the military.
You said it sister
@BBallMOU Man woke up and chose violence. Talking about you btw
I made my ghillie suit in 95 and still have it. Started with 25 only 11 of us graduated.
Rip the 14 who got found
Did u?
I graduated in 94.... Do you remember the SF Tabbed instructors name? He served in Vietnam and drove a Harley. He would sometimes superman flop on the floor to wake the class up. I got to shoot with him when they where considering recommending me for an "elevated detail", I was too cocky and not mature enough at that time to be selected out but they did let me end up shooting any target I chose. 1048 Meters was the deepest target at the time for the M24. It was a good time, I then went Airborne, RIP, 2nd Batt.
@@03.ximipa3ahmadrinofarosmu3 they didn't die. The military has things called "selection" for elite units like snipers , recon and SF so those that didn't graduate did not meet the standards or they quit.
@@thorodinson7467 no, I'm pretty sure it's a hunger games style battle royale where the only thing that will prevent your graduation is your death at the hand of your fellow cadets.
Am I the only one that surprised by the price tag and the durability of the Ghillie suits? 100$ for that piece of ripped clothes and it can last for years. That's amazing!
The only great thing I can just afford!
Meh, hobos can make theirs for even cheaper.
Best American base for a suit was the 80's era BDU's made from nylon/cotton blend. Hotter and slower to dry but much tougher than more modern uniforms.
Hilarious that they have to pay for it
@@ThisIsTheInternet you have to pay for everything in the military. They don't tell you until you see the price tag on the initial issue. Dress uniforms and all.
I grew up a little over a mile from the Sand Hill entrance to Ft Benning. This was before the entrances on St Mary's Road and Buena Vista Road were gated. We spent many summer days playing out there in the woods, picking up stuff the Box Heads left behind, like ammo clips, spent shells and C-rations (last half of the 1960s). There was almost never, ever anyone in that area on the weekends. Times have changed. The entire western border of Ft Benning is now fenced in. And the gates locked permanently. And yes, that red clay is everywhere.
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I graduated from fort benning Georgia and let me tell you … you can walk 100 meters and the entire environment and foliage completely changes ! It’s crazy fort benning provides so much training opportunities
There's a guy in my town who walks around in a ghillie suit just chilling, doesn't bother anything or anyone he just walks around or will be laying down next to bushes lol cool dude.
@Tom Tom he just does it, he's nice and I'm in a relatively small town and news gets around fast, no one has ever had an issue with him.
I did hear that one time he helped a goose family across the street.
That’s cool.
@Tom Tom the truth is no one will see him do anything he doesn't want them to see 😝
Every soldiers worst enemy in the battlefield is a well skilled Sniper
And road side bombs :(
@@thatsclassified1 And a national command who have no idea what they are trying to achieve on the battlefield.
@@brimstone33this right here is a factual statement boys
Americans really feel this after leaving Afghanistan ugh
@@TylerSolvestri Yeah well over 2 trillion dollars spend on nothing. All they did is to Update Taliban English language and that's it.
I know how it feels like when US litterly did nothing for 20 Years. All their goal was to kill Osama bin laden and that's it. When they left the Afghanistan they gave Their weapons and every equipments to Taliban so they can fight out Corrupt Government Easily. If Afghanistan was on the right track then Afghanistan would be Developed Country in-term of Defence.
US even left those Sniper Suit which wasn't Necessary Because Afghanistan doesn't have Jungle Terrain or something like that.
For airsoft snipers, ghillie suits are optional for some occasions. But for military snipers positioned in areas with vegetation, it might as well be your second best friend, followed by your weapon.
what is your pfp 😳
A snipers bestfriend is their spotter
def appreciate the suits now, i figured it would all be built off the same piece of gear by now, but this method proves more effective
I didn't expect to see a video about snipers making ghillie suits on business insider, but then I remembered the whole military industrial corporation thing.
19 years later my ghillie suite is still in one piece. Goes without saying I over built that sucker. I only wear it to scare kids during trick or treat now 😂😂😂
Thank you for your service men never taking your bravery for granted I appreciate your bravery and desire to be a soldier I salute you soldier's.
read Tom Brown's book he is a master tracker trained by an old Apache scout. on of his stories was infiltrating a Army war games excersize and crawling up on snipers (he was 'nt supposed to be there). the film 'the Hunted' was losely based on him
I wanna make a ghillie suit just for the heck of it now.
No fun without a rifle or a bow and arrow or a camera with a telephoto lense at least.
@@NerveSocial get a blowgun and start an urban legend about a phantom that sticks darts into strangers
@@thisaccountisntreal107 💀
Was in a reconnaissance platoon with ssg davis when he was a specialist, mean, funny ass dude! Glad to see he’s moving up in his career
This is very useful information/insight because I'm planning on becoming an army sniper in a couple years. Thanks
Meanwhile snipers in game: slides, jumps and shoot 😂
3:03 "go to your left"
Well that would depend if you're on your back or stomach when he says it
lol🤣
The realism of crawling through marinara sauce was spectacular!
That looked tough but fun!
I've created my own ghillie suit (without trousers) and it took me about 5 - 6 hours of tieing the strings alone. But trust me, it's worth it.
I’ve always wanted to be a Sniper for the US Military, I am always amazed on how interesting it all is
how to measure bullet drop
Sniping a good job mate
Arts and crafts
Custom suits
Guns n stuff
I bet you won’t get bored
Salute to you all for your contribution
Right up until he lights a cigarette. Once had a two govt. people ask permission to do surveillance from my property (in wooded area) and showed up with these. Guy was invisible but once he lit his cigarette I (nonsmoker) could smell him 1000 feet downwind. He and his partner were totally oblivious to the scent. There's a GOOD reason to quit!
3:13
Instructor: What is the primary role of a sniper?!!
Students: To engage and- _(can't speak clearly due to being blasted with water)_ *ABLUBLUBLUBLEAURGH*
I know this is serious informative video, but that scene made me lose my composure and my sides hurts so much from laughing
Lol 😂 same same
GO ARMY !! WE ALL TRAIN TO FIGHT AND TO LEARN AND WATCH EACH OTHERS BACKS AND PASS THE COURSE..1980S ARMY DAYS REWARDING TO THIS DAY.. EXCEPT FOR A KNEE REPLACEMENT IT WAS A HARD FIGHT..PEACE..
Here's a few Old School tips.
Hair spray, at your ffp, spray your arms and chest, roll on the ground to pick up natural elements.
550 cord, tie it to a few srubs 10 to 15 meters away from you, when observers begin, tug the cord to move the bush, take attention away from your ffp
The push up count was just bad ass.
Ole chuck was my branch chief at the air assault school. Definitely great to be around.
Thank you - love these insiders.
Oh how I miss this. Still have 3 suites in my tuff box.
Love snipers ❤️
My dad must have one of these because I’ve not been able to find him for years
:/
Im so sorry for laughing
Hide and seek world champ right there
i like to read some of the experienced people who did pass this kind of experience (sort of) and explaining how they were awesome'n stuffs
God bless all of them. ... Men AND Women!!!🇱🇷
Always wanted to be a sniper. Love long range shooting and a good 30.06.
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It was fun but at the same time I don't miss it
It's like heaven 😍.
FIRST SERGEANT REYNOLDS FROM B/CO 2/29 Sand hill Fort Benning Georgea. Nice seeing him again 🔥🔥🔥
So crazy knowing what these brave soldiers go through
Definitely a strong breed of people 🇺🇸
Menjadi seorang prajurit adalah sesuatu yang luar biasa....
so is being a worker
Holy shit SFC Moore was my drill sergeant. B 2/58 2nd PLT. One of the best leadership I’ve ever had.
There's a degree of trust that must be present between a sniper and his ghillie suit.
The suit is what is what makes him from a guy with a gun to a sniper.
0:22 Looks like big foot snuck his way into boot camp without anyone noticing.
Sassy the Sasquatch 😂
That has way less to do with improving the ghillie suits, but the people wearing them. Notice that none of them actually had a full ghillie suit on during the wash. They could just as easily dip and rub the suits. This is about training them to move better, in ways that aren't easy to spot as human...and how to better camouflage themselves in the process.
If you think doing a roll on a road or crawling backwards with your underside up uncamouflaged with a few thrown in star jumps and squats is not going to get you seen I think you watched a different clip to me lol. It is to do with the way your body moves stretching the material. you know sometimes you bend over and your clothes are too tight they might rip? or the parts you attached were not done good enough thy will come lose. I'm sure they even said this you can't just make something up in your head and ignore what they said lol.
@@MagicMarvin33 Say that to my face! I'm right behind you. 😉🙃 I'm of the opinion that not everything that is claimed is truth. I didn't say it was only about one thing, but more about it. Didn't you notice that most of the features of their ghillie suits were not in place after the first assembly? Those pieces should have been fixed between activities, if the goal was to wear in the whole suit. Sure, those guys were green and moving too quickly, but certain muscles have to be trained to properly move. You can't just send someone out with a perfect ghillie suit and expect them to be able to not look like a suspiciously shaking bush or slithering pile of leaves. Yes, it could be purely made up, but reading between the lines and observing that one's stated goals don't match one's actions requires something more than merely trusting narrator's statements.
@@reginaldwelkin I'd say it to your. But no they are in the middle of building them that is done right at the start of the course then normally they do another one if they have time. Also cam is mostly natural they are only testing what they added not real bits of nature. So that is why they look naked to you.
If they did this after they built it for weeks and weeks and they didn't know how strong they'd have to be it would fall apart. This is a good test and the stalks are what the movement is all about.
This is about having a laugh and testing your suit no one advances on the enemy doing the back stroke up a little muddy river lol
@@MagicMarvin33 You obviously saw a different video than I did.
@@reginaldwelkin No you are trying to play detective and ignored everything they told you in the vid...
They train so hard and win every war in movies.... i wish them all the luck.
True Warriors hoorah charlie mike
Respect to everyone in this video. This is one tough job for sure
Commercially made suits are garbage. People call them wookie suits (for obvious reasons when you see them)
Sfc Moore was my drill lol super knowledgeable dude and awesome nco
I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning Specialist! ~ Gunny
Thank you, sir! ~ Jar Head
This was actually really interesting
(Not watched the video before I commented btw)
Another reason for the whole swmming through mud and crawling through shit thing with the Ghillie suit is to remove any "human" smells that might be on it, that's part of the reason why although an Ghillie suit might be maintained as in pads restitched to knees/elbows etc, it is never washed or cleaned as that would likely make it smell too "human", you want to remove any trace of that person from it, so if the enemy is using tracker dogs then they cannot follow or home in on the smells from the suit that the average person might impart into it, unlike an Soldiers uniform the Ghillie suit remains unlaundered, you literally want it to smell like the vegeatation that you're crawling through and remove any trace of a scent from it, the better it smells of vegetation and soil etc the more chance the person wearing it can remain undetected.
This is also why some SF soldiers have their noses "honed" to smell the enemy from afar, cigarette smoke is an obvious giveaway but so is a freshly laundered uniform that smells of washing powder or an aftershave, deodorant or even strong smelling foods like onions and drinks like Coffee, all those can carry on the wind for quite a distance, On a bright summers day with a light breeze i've literally smelt someones coffee breath from a mile away.
That is some insight! Thanks for the lesson sir
It's great to see how the implement the materials that we sell. The Jute are natural fibers and there is the option of using ultralight synthetic thread which is:
Water-proof
Rot-proof
Mildew resistant
Fire-retardant
Washable
Odor-less
Non-Allergenic
NO UV Brighteners used.
It depends on the environment, the materials available and the time available to prepare. Then, there's possibly waiting in the same exact spot for day's. There are many variables that go into being a good sniper. Even before you get to take the shot.
Getting one now
Thermal camera: im about to end this mans whole career
Aluminum foil inside
@@cristianoroeder7013 if it’s pressed up against the body it will conduct body heat.
"The purpose of the ghillie wash is to season the suits."
Yes. That is the purpose of the ghillie wash. No other reason.
"To test the durability of...the....uhm....suits! Yeah, to test the durability of the suits! That's it!"
--the person who came up with the ghillie wash telling his CO why they need to do the wash, probably.............
One work - Miserable
I worked at the Sunday markets for 12 years and we had to work in the rain sometimes. Pack up in the rain with wet boxes. So I know how miserable it can be in the water.
BUT this is next LEVEL
Wow very good job my friend i like you that's amazing video
Serious questions: Does the moment a person use a heat sensitive camera make the whole camoflague process somewhat redundant though? What can snipers do about heat detecting technologies? Are there any ghillie suit designs which can stop heat from being detected?
Certain types of mesh can mask your heat signature pretty well, that's why you in some pictures will see a soldier cover their head with mesh fabric
anything that insulated holds it in. also they can cover themselves in dirt or whatever thatd be ambient temp.
I believe there are some things out there nowadays that can help keep thermals from detecting body heat, but I don't know if they use them in ghillie suits yet... Right now I think most of what they focus on is covered in the previous comments here...
it is hard to detect a sniper 200m+ away from a thermal camera.
Bear in mind heat sensitive cameras are costly and cannot make it as bare minimum to equip areas like jungles nor each personnel.
Ghillies still relevant today
Awesome video and amazing job these soldiers did. Makes me proud. Fort Benning is something serious. 🦅 🇺🇸
Love you all. All who are fighting for our country.
La try drone strike
God bless America's warriors🇺🇸
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The more gilly become old the more it give a natural look.
I'm chaffed from just watching this!!!!
Looks like a fun job
Dude the training looks like torture. It’s like extreme hide and seek. Except if u get caught it’s game over.
At least you dont get killed when u get caught
me:im going to sleep now
also me:*how army make camouflage gillie suits for combats*
That's awesome y'all
I love learning about the oil industry
.. those poor guys are doing flutter kicks while being sprayed with a fire hose.😬
Anybody or survives this is it true badass 💪🧠❤
This is a very informative video, buy you just showed the muddy trenches and obstacles without the students going through it?
Wut?
Respect.
These people are a different breed
Jeremy DeWitt did this. He even created the course.
So they don't buy it off Amazon?
These guys are being WAYYYYYYYYYY to polite for what id imagined it was going to be like. Bujt i suppsoe to be i imagine selected for a sniper course your probably allready through the worst of it
Dang, that looks fun
"What's that in the bush, did you see a head poke out?"
Yeah the crotch is always a weak point
Instructor: what difficulty you want.
Me: sniper with ghillie suit.
When I saw the net over the sniper it reminded me of that one Destiny 1 exotic sniper. Sadly I forget it’s name
Patience and Time i believe it was called
momma use to make ghillie suits for civilian use crazy shit
what if your mum washes it when you go home?
She'll be court marshalled
Hahahaha it would happen
Tipe to go the park and pick a dirt bicket and water hahah
And to think it was us Scots that invented the ghillie suit...
Can never forget that orange clay.. turns everything orange.
Respect