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Originally Posted by waiting4something
When I was in military, the sniper was the senior member that had gone though and passed scout sniper school. The spotter was the junior guy that a lot of times had not gone through or completed the school and was just a referred to as a scout or PIG( precision instructed gunman). But this was also before they got big into urban sniping and hanging out in larger teams. Has it really changed that much?
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You were a Marine though, right? I think that might be one of the differences between us and them. I went to Army Sniper School in '97. My understanding was that was how our teams were set up since their inception, but at least long enough before I went to have been the accepted norm. Our spotters are the team leader because they have more experience to spot the rounds in varying conditions, make the calculations/corrections, and generally have better situational awareness with the shooter's eye glued to his optic.
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