Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shadows grew long on a cold, clear December night at Camp Geiger, North Carolina, as a bonfire raged and a pig roasted -- it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Marine Scout Sniper War Memorial will look something like this: a bronze World War I observer, with an iconic brimmed helmet ...

A Ukrainian sniper from the “Pryvid” (Ghost) unit made a 4,000-meter (4,374-yard) sniper kill shot in August 2025 — the ...

Snipers utilize a craft all their own. It’s an odd one that involves small elite teams, armed with accurate rifles, often going out alone and away from the cover an army provides. Snipers are known ...

In the blazing ruins of Stalingrad, where men hunted men with such savagery that even the dogs fled howling into the night, occurred the greatest sniper duel in history. Too bad it’s more myth than ...

T-5000 sniper rifle silencer front side© "T-5000 sniper rifle silencer front side" by Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is licensed under BY 4.0. Modern warfare is filled with moments that ...

At their most basic function, snipers throughout history have been used to create “dilemmas for opposing commanders,” Brig. Gen. Larry Burris, the commandant of the Army Infantry School, said last ...

On this day, Oct. 2, in 2002, the Beltway sniper attacks began with the fatal shooting of 55-year-old James Martin outside a supermarket in Wheaton. Over 23 days in October 2002, 42-year-old John ...

Harry Walden was walking toward a payphone near Northeast Williams and Broadway after his truck broke down on the highway. “I kept hearing these bangs,” the foundry worker recalled later. “Heck, I ...

In the summer of 2021, two years before the Corps axed the current iteration of the job, members of the Marine scout sniper community saw a growing need to preserve and catalog their heritage, one ...