Peter ? Air Force snipers????

[Terry Hawker]

Dad was a bomb aimer on a Halifax with my Uncle Tim the pilot, and, as they didn't even carry pistols, ("Wot's the point, if you went down they wouldn't be looking for you with pistols... pistols would only get you shot!"). A transit chest for a No.4 (T) on their "kite" would have been a very strange sight indeed!

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[BIG D]

Yes they do have snipers today and with all the latest kit, they do their job and do it well, we have a Regiment squadron on our Airbase and they have spent many a long tour in the latest hotspots and you can rely upon them,
their roles are also exspanding.

BIG D

[breakeyp]

Yes they do have snipers today and with all the latest kit, they do their job and do it well, we have a Regiment squadron on our Airbase and they have spent many a long tour in the latest hotspots and you can rely upon them,
their roles are also exspanding.

BIG D

Wow! Bless them and their endeavors. It guess it fits, the US Army at one time and maybe today has the second largest air fleet and during WWII had more ships than the Navy and had their own railroad equipment. What next, the Submarine service fielding jet fighters!

[crunch]

This M113 is used by USAF Security Police, to patrol a prison camp at Camp Bucca, Iraq.

The boxes on the front and side contain Claymore mines that can be detonated from inside.

I guess that would be the antithesis of sniping!