SG-SOCOM
SG SNIPERS

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This is an elite and exclusive role within SG-SOCOM. The role of these members is to shadow SG-SOCOM Ops and SG Teams to provide expert marksmanship when situations ignite. Members may operate alone or as a combined element with their assigned Off-World Ops team. The sniper has special abilities, training and equipment. SG Sniper's job is to deliver discriminatory highly accurate rifle fire against enemy targets, which cannot be engaged successfully by the rifleman because of range, size, location, fleeting nature, or visibility.

Sniping requires the development of basic infantry skills to a high degree of perfection. A sniper's training incorporates a wide variety of subjects designed to increase his value as a force multiplier and to ensure his survival on the battlefield. The art of sniping requires learning and repetitiously practicing these skills until mastered. A sniper must be highly trained in long-range rifle marksmanship and field craft skills to ensure maximum effective engagements with minimum risk.
  

MISSION
The primary mission of a sniper in combat is to support combat operations by delivering precise long-range fire on selected targets. By this, the sniper creates casualties among enemy troops, slows enemy movement, frightens enemy soldiers, lowers morale, and adds confusion to their operations. The secondary mission of the sniper is collecting and reporting battlefield information.

A. A well-trained sniper, combined with the inherent accuracy of his rifle and ammunition, is a versatile supporting arm available to an infantry commander. The importance of the sniper cannot be measured simply by the number of casualties he inflicts upon the enemy. Realization of the sniper’s presence instills fear in enemy troop elements and influences their decisions and actions. A sniper enhances a unit’s firepower and augments the varied means for destruction and harassment of the enemy. Whether a sniper is organic or attached, he will provide that unit with extra supporting fire. The sniper’s role is unique in that it is the sole means by which a unit can engage point targets at distances beyond the effective range of the M16 rifle. This role becomes more significant when the target is entrenched or positioned among civilians, or during riot control missions. The fires of automatic weapons in such operations can result in the wounding or killing of noncombatants.

B. Snipers are employed in all levels of conflict. This includes conventional offensive and defensive combat in which precision fire is delivered at long ranges. It also includes combat patrols, ambushes, countersniper operations, forward observation elements, military operations in urbanized and foreign terrain, and retrograde operations in which snipers are part of forces left in contact or as stay-behind forces. 

C. In a sniper's secondary mission, they can be quite effective in data collection in hostile, enemy-occupied terrain. They present a low impact, stealthy force that a commander can use to perform reconnaissance in an area with restricted access, such as when a stargate is located in an area that is unsuitable for entry by an assault or standard infantry unit.
  

FIELD UNIFORM:

• If not on field duty, 1st personnel are authorized to wear the standard woodland camo, Tiger or standard black BDU uniform of the SG-SOCOM, with or without tac vest and shoulder arm(s)
• Ghillie suit or equivalent, with hood or headgear
• LBE gear appropriate for sniper, or tac vest to match weapon/assignment (with 1 canteen) 
• Black T-shirt
• Black boots
• Green or black nomex gloves
• Headgear for this uniform shall be standard fatigue cap, beret or "boonies hat"
• Face paint or sniper veil 
• Personal sidearm of choice in drop holster (silencer a bonus)
• Shoulder arms which are authorized include, Sniper weapon or support weapon.

GARRISON UNIFORM:

• If not on field duty, SG Sniper personnel are authorized to wear the standard woodland camo, Tiger or standard black BDU uniform of the SG-SOCOM, with or without tac vest and shoulder arm(s)
• Black T-shirt
• Black boots
• Headgear for this uniform shall be standard fatigue cap, beret or "boonies hat"
• Personal sidearm of choice in drop holster
• Shoulder arms which are authorized include, MP5, FN P90, M4A1, M16A2, M733.

NOTE: A character or mission write-up that explains the costume you have (any deviations from above will be reconciled here) 
  

Capt. David Harmer
T.O. SG Snipers
SG-SOCOM