Breda M1D 308 sniper

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I got some info.
He confirmed that the marksmen/sniper program started in late ‘94, which makes sense also with my memories, because in October we had terrible floods in Piedmont and all training was stopped to help the polulation of the struck areas. In November, until January, we made lots of exercise for Strong Resolve ‘95, which was in February. Our soldiers ended their year and we got a fully new crew in early March. I bet that somewhere between April and May we got that info about the course, but then we went to “summer camp” and then to Calabria on a mission against mafia.
So we never started that program that year.
He confirmed that the Garands TS were in fact used at the beginning, to train the soldiers in the use of the optics and for creating the shooting tables. But they were very limited at the time, so they were very quickly retired from sevice and substituted with Mc Millans and Iver Johnson’s. Then, after a short while came the Sako and Accuracy International. But in my friends regiment, when they went to Iraq and fought the battle for the Nasiriya bridges, they had self acquired Steyr SSGs (2 of them) and high-end reloading equipment (also self acquired).
He’s trying to find out if some of his mates still have some older magazines, where this new marksmen/sniper program was covered at the time.