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I smiled at his objection, and told him as soon as we were done with this mission, I’d take him to the range and teach him how to shoot through loopholes. I asked why, and he replied that we couldn’t shoot through it. When he arrived at my location, he began to tell me we needed to move our position due to the chain-link fence. As was the senior marksman on the scene, I felt we could use the unfolding scenario as a learning opportunity.

When our newest sniper arrived, he came up on the radio and I directed him to my position. Once the FFP was established and appropriately concealed, I began directing the other arriving snipers to positions around the suspect’s residence, which allowed us to cover all the angles. Should the team use an explosive breach to make entry and conduct a rescue, I could still provide overwatch. This location allowed observation deep into the suspect’s residence. That also allowed me to move several of the remaining plants to where I wanted to further obscure the FFP.

I pushed three of the plants together in a deep corner of the yard to build my hide site. Inside the yard were several large, potted plants scattered around. I was the first sniper to arrive on scene and immediately began looking for a Final Firing Position (FFP) on the front side of the suspect’s residence.ĭirectly across the street from the scene was a single-family, two-story house which had a large backyard surrounded with chain-link fence. We received a hostage call at approximately 03:30 one night, where an estranged husband was holding his children in a house at gunpoint, threatening to kill everyone. The skills to operate in a metropolitan landscape are essentially the same as most other Areas of Operation (AO) but, an additional knowledge base is required to instill the confidence and the flexibility needed to maximize your effectiveness as a precision shooter.Ī few years back, we had a new technician on our team who had just returned from a sniper course hosted by an outside agency.

For the professional Sniper/Observer team, an urban environment is filled with many daunting challenges.