To get some C4 and detonators of course! US sniper divisions have been baiting insurgents into picking up planted explosive equipment. The insurgents get a rude awakening when they feel the burst of a .50 caliber sniper round from the AS50 or Barrett M107 sniper rifles.
“Baiting is putting an object out there that we know they will use, with the intention of destroying the enemy,” Capt. Matthew P. Didier, the leader of an elite sniper scout platoon attached to the 1st Battalion of the 501st Infantry Regiment, said in a sworn statement. “Basically, we would put an item out there and watch it. If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the individual as I saw this as a sign they would use the item against U.S. Forces.”
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5 Responses
Wow!, being a sniper myself…..MARINES ALL THE WAY!!!!! i have to admit i want to blow heads off just by looking at it awwwww…. makes me lol
Posted on January 7th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Smart
Always one step ahead, right?
Personally, I’d probably get a bit trigger happy if I was in their position, I’d probably get them before they actualy touch it, you know, so you don’t have to get up and plant another one , LOL, it could be dangerous, are these items that you plant working explosive parts, or are they fakes, I mean, what if a Kid went to pick whatever it was up?
are you still allowed to engage, I’m assuming not
Posted on August 17th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Yes of course most of the soldiers would like to know the taste of 1st confirmed kill in a battle field. But once we get our 1st kill, we will greed and trigger happy then want to have more kills. But have we forgot that every bullet is actually personal. Some of you might know what’s I talking about.
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Good idea, but has one drawback, what if someone who isn’t an insurgant discovers it, and picks up some out of curiosity?
Then again you shouldn’t muck about with c4 anyway and they would be likely to blow themselves up later anyway. Better you blow them away than blow themselves up and others later, whether or not it was deliberate.
Also an insurgant could take it from him later…
You could go mad thinking out all the consequences, better to shoot and be on the safe side I suppose.
Sounds like fun.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I vote on placing something flamable and using incideary rounds. That would make it fun and add a act of god feel to anyone who was watching when they picked it up. And of course you would have to leave a sighn written in arab that said “God does not want you to touch this” lol
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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