Senior Airman Polly-Jan Bobseine, 823rd Security Forces Squadron fire team member, takes aim behind a M-24 Sniper Rifle to hone her close precision engagement skills during proficiency weapons training at a deployed location.
Last Easter the ex-cheerleader (age 19) and now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper in this picture was watching a road that lead to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target, and she shot him. Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers.
The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot struck him in the butt blowing into the bomb which detonated. He was blown to pieces...
(The killjoys at snopes have a different version. F**k em. This version is better)
H/T 45 Govt
Sunday, 28 December 2008
Totty of the Year......
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How about a link?
I was once challenged to a shooting contest by a female sniper. I was incredulous. In front of all the hierarchy or Army HQ I eventually capitulated. "You chose the target, I'll select the range," I offered.
"Figure 11,"she instantly chortled.
"9300 yards," I replied to a silent community.
"I can't do that,"she admitted.
"Then do not challenge a professional," I said with a ring of satisfaction.
She was still glowering at my back, the mixture of astonishment and female pique. "You should have looked at his cap badge," said Jock Houston, RSM of the School of Infantry and SAS.
Cap badge:- 1st Field Regiment Rhodesian Artillery. I never did get a shag off her...
Here you go Bronze http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/cheerleader.asp
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