Royal Marine Snipers Training 1976

[DanL96a1]

PL is the green on the rifles, the "sniper tape" we use today? Normally the Bain of any REME Tech, as the sniper is normally loathed to remove it, for inspection of the weapon.
I find this rear footage helpful to see how they, used the equipment, and what worked for them at the time. Not much has changed!

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[Strangely Brown]

PL is the green on the rifles, the "sniper tape" we use today? Normally the Bain of any REME Tech, as the sniper is normally loathed to remove it, for inspection of the weapon.

As a drop short we didn't really do the sniper thing except for NI, and once there we just carried them in the same way we carried and used the SLR.
However back in Germany my Battery supported 3 RGJ who gave a us a lot of training prior to deployment in NI and I remember L42A1's with a lot of hessian and sniper veil scrim, all held together with black nasty if this helps?

[chosenman]

Strangely Brown, I was 3 RGJ in Celle, Germany. We did a tour of Belfast in the early eighties and sadly one of your guys was killed by a head shot. I think the guys name was Utteridge.
It was common practice for our L42's to be taped up as illustrated below.

[Gil Boyd]

Surgeon Commander Rick Jolly a good friend on that first video ..........."now you don't."
Not one man wounded, who entered the whaling station where he had set up his surgical team died........thats the credit down to the man and his medics!