In response to several sniping incidents against civilians and police officers around the country in the 1960s, police departments developed teams designed to react to emergency sniper situations, ...

Officer Pickart has been a SWAT sniper for 20 years. Today he is shooting with eight of the team's newest members at a range near Lake View Terrace. With the department's current weapons system, these ...

FORT MCCOY, Wis. -- U.S. Army National Guard snipers are highly trained assets whose value and capabilities are often overlooked during large scale training events such as the National Guard's ...

More than 300 soldiers walk onto the course at Fort Benning, Georgia, every year ready to earn the crossed rifles and the tab that goes with them. A portion of those soldiers don’t finish. That’s not ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. -- As part of the next phase of an ongoing international partnership between Fort Benning and the German military, a German soldier recently trained American Soldiers on sniper craft ...

During large, multiunit exercises, the US military's snipers can be overshadowed by the men and machines roving the battlefield. To correct that, Staff Sgt. Joe Bastian — a former active-duty sniper ...