WWII Pacific USMC Snipers

[cplstevennorton]

Where did I ever say that Recon Companies did not exist? I haven't even touched on the subject at all. Jim said and I quote, "There was never any need to use Scout-Snipers for reconnaissance, and such action would not benefit anyone." I said that was not correct and that is all I have stated. I then provide actual docs from 1943 showing clearly this is wrong.

Wikipedia is not a scholarly source, and very little I see on it is correct. What you see online, and what you see in the original documents are two very different things. That is why so much of this info is wrong out there.

In WWII the actual title was a SCOUT. There were Scouts who provided Reconnaissance, which also included Scout Snipers. Today there is a MOS 0321 which is titled a Recon Marine. There was not an 0321 Recon Marine in WWII. The correct terminology was a Scout. But unless you actually read the documents from this era you would incorrectly identify them as Recon.

There was no Force Recon in WWII, so you cannot make assumptions of what Force Recon's job role was in comparison to the WWII Scout Sniper. Because Force Recon did not exist.

Also I have seen the T&O table, I copied it from the Archives. This is the actual T&O on Scouts from WWII.




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