Exmarines Spill Truth Sniper Dreams Harsh Realities

Land nav. Just land nav. Oh, okay. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. No, it was, I mean, I had a good time, dude. I, you know, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed, I enjoyed all the hard times, you know, embrace the suck, you know, suck it up and keep on, dude, I miss it. You know, I miss it. I think a lot of us do really miss the camaraderie. I don't mean, I don't miss sitting at the armory at three o'clock in the morning and wait till six to actually get guns, but you know, it comes with the territory. So here we are. I'll say it now because we're old men. I would have never admitted it back then. But listen, all the Marines want to be a Marine sniper. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. I love you. I love you, Brian. But when you were in boot camp, you weren't thinking about dropping, you know, down the tube. We all wanted to put the gear on. We all wanted to be Carlos Hathcock, bro. You know, we did. When I got to the fleet, bro. our company commander pulled aside three guys. And all three guys... Oh, well, all three guys... They were 300 PFTers. They were, you know, the shit hot guys. And when he pulled them aside to say, ask them if they wanted to go to the state platoon, I was like, wait, wait, wait, what the fuck? Why am I not getting invited? I got a 300 PFT. You know, I've got a 142 ASVAP score. Like, why am I not getting invited? I found out it was because I was married already. But I was so fucking jealous. So I'm with you on that, Alpha. But when we were in Afghanistan on our first pump, no offense to you guys, our snipers suck, dude. Our snipers were bad. I got a video of them taking a shot with the Sasser 50. And literally the guy that's spotting for him goes, bro, I told you go left 50. You went right 50. That's how. It happens more than you think. It happens more than you think. Your shooter has to be a – kind of a filter for the spotter because there's, you know, it's a lot of communication. And if it's not on point and if you don't have your own thought process as a shooter to kind of check the spotter and back and forth, then you're going to have a little bit of miscommunication. It happens. It's happened to me once. But yeah, so I was going to mention everybody wants to be a sniper. My recruiter was actually a recon scout sniper. And so that was kind of the leap forward for me to try and make that push. There you go. All right. So Zeb, you have an interesting take on the events that took place last week. And I think all three of us can agree that we are not being told anything near the truth of what actually happened. I think all three of us have kind of different ideas on what went down. So for those that haven't seen your video, do you want to walk us through? And if you have video that you want to pull up, feel free to... I can actually pull up... I just posted a thread on Twitter to push out... Let me see if I can pull up my Twitter thread. Hold on. I got audio somewhere. Let me see if I can pull up my Twitter. I'll run through the thread. You can give me an idea of what else you want from that. And then... Is this good enough?