A Woman Who Can Make a Shot Like This Deserves to Be My Wife




U.S. Military Iraq story with a happy ending!



This nineteen-year-old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target (i.e., she shot him).
Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded our U.S. soldiers.

The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot went through his butt and into the bomb which detonated; he was blown to pieces. The Air Force made a motivational poster of her:






(Folks, that's a shot 25 yards longer than seven football fields!)


(Now, let's get her home safely!)

If he was blown to pieces, how did they know the shot went through his arse? Did they find a cheek with a hole in it? Sure that's not just his a-hole?

Good Question?

Spotter

When she comes home, I'd like to marry her At least a gal as good a shot as me!

That's some damn fine shootin'. I couldn't have hit a statue at that range with my M60 with no less than 6-8 rounds.

Here's to her!!

Oh, come on now, with a 7.62...That's even simple with a .223

I applaud her (wish I knew how to shoot) but i do have a question....how did she know what the guy was doing??? luckily she was right...but what if she had been wrong? just asking a question

ever hear of spotting scopes or binoculars? 725 yards with my scope I can tell you how buttons on the front of a guys shirt if I chose to count them....just saying. Kinda like looking at the moon with a telescope

yes I have heard of them...but since I've never been in the military or in a situation like that...i wasn't sure

We're not all sharpshooters. And it's not simple with a .223. The maximum effective range on a point target is 550 meters, and at an area target is 800 meters. The maximum range is 3600 meters.

At that range you are still taking a bit of a gamble. I have seen people be wrong about things like that before. You almost never see an act that doesn't cause you to question it first. Lighting, mist, vegitation, dust, humidity, angle, all makes the difference and in order to be absolutely sure, all these things must be decent at least. It ultimately gets forgiven if you make a mistake unless you have news reporters near by.

But she would have done the math. A person performing a suspicious act near a vulnerable location (usually choke points in the road), and she could clearly see there was some sort of digging involved. Not sure if it was called into command for permission prior to the shot or not though. Sometimes spotters make that call. Traditionally the spotter is the higher ranking individual, since he or she performs the estimations and figures out the mathmatics behind each shot. All sniper does is make the adjustments the spotter tells him/her to and squeezes the trigger.

ty drivin. i have never hunted, been a cop or military so I don't know how they do what and with what...that's why I asked the question. i DO know in situations like that (and in a cops position) that split second decision have to be made. and sometimes...there are trigger happy people. although IMO for the most part, it's few. I didn't know how quick she had to make the decision or what was used

don't get me wrong...from what I understood...that was a great shot and hard to do and she stopped someone from planting a bomb. she's a hero IMO.

Indeed.

The rang varies a LITTLE depending on the weapon you're firing. But the Squad Automatic Weapon has the same range to a point target as the standard m16/m4. So for the most part you are very right.

ok...now you are speaking greek to me....so i'll back out now that my question was answered

carry on...

shooting a gun isnt that impressive i have done it thousands of times

Anytime.

9 times out of 10 a military sniper will carry an m24, or some variation of it.

Basically it's a bolt action .308 caliber rifle with a thick barrel and a bipod to perch up on to help hold it steady.

The shot was ok, but not spectacular for typical sniper ops. In sniper school your target is up to 1,000 meters. 725 yards is roughly 660 meters. The shot was still good, as this person wasn't sitting down, so there was SOME movement. Although i assume he was more or less stationary since he was hovering over a hole.

I do not mean to talk down this feat. I give this woman kudos for taking the shot and hitting her target. She has my respect...

ok...who wants to teach me to shoot?

would nerf guns count?

You are correct, young Jedi. But to hit your intended target at that distance takes alot of trigger control, and 100% concentration. Because, at that distance, if your aim is off .01%, your round will be off it's intended path by about 7 feet.