RW>> In the military situation I'm looking for some way that
 RW>> troopers can spot and counter a sniper BEFORE the RTO
 RW>> or CO is shot.
LK>> The problem is is that for a sniper to =be= a sniper, he has
LK>> to be excellent at concealment or he won't last too long to
LK>> be real effective; that's why snipers are so effective from
LK>> a psychological standpoint.  'Bout the only way to sense a
 RW> Same can be said for anti personal land mines but you
 RW> can teach people how to look for signs of them and
 RW> where they are most likely be placed.  I'm thinking of
 RW> the same sort of training.
 RW> You aren't going to find many mines off the beaten path
 RW> and you aren't going to find many snipers laying in a
 RW> creek bed in the bottom of a valley.
Hey, you never know.  Isn't unpredictability part of the whole game with
being a sniper?  Never let the suckers see you coming, as it were.  :-)
LK>> sniper on the prowl would be to saturate your perimeter with
LK>> sensors, booby-traps, etc.
 RW> Not unless you have one heck of a perimeter!  Even a
 RW> bad sniper should be able to hit from 600 meters.  The
 RW> most effective anti sniper program involves beating the
 RW> bushes with patrols.  Well that and some well placed
 RW> artillery strikes on possible sniper locations.  But
 RW> that requires you to know something about where they
 RW> might be hiding and therefore some type of anti sniper
 RW> training....
I figured most people would figure out that I'd already figured this out,
too.  :-/
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