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Voice Of Mars – “Everyone Hates Snipers”

July 30th, 2008 @ 6:41 pm by Elsa

Astrology in real life

The other night the soldier and I were watching Sniper. I’d never seen it and was surprised how good it is above and beyond the obvious eye-candy. The first two thirds of the movie, this is. The last third was a little much if you have Libra but anyway, the soldier has worked as a sniper…

“Yeah, I liked it but nobody likes you. Everyone hates snipers,” he said.

“Why? They seem very necessary. Aren’t they necessary?”

“Yeah, they’re good for all kinds of things. Psychological warfare…” he went on to elaborate. “You can hit a guy from almost a mile away. There’s no way they can know what’s coming.”

“I see. So why don’t they like ‘em?”

“Well, it’s considered somewhat cowardly in the military tradition,” he said.

I was fascinated to learn this, maybe you feel similar.

Astrology, Astrology in Real Life, mars, voice, war, 7 comments | Posted at 6:41 pm

7 Responses to “Voice Of Mars – “Everyone Hates Snipers””

wyrdling

what, so we can run at each other in big crowds with swords in our hands? not cowardly, that, but kind of stupid……

i have to admire the efficiency of a good sniper.

‘course, i heard someone telling a story today of a buddy who’d walked through sniper fire to get to the latrine in mogadishu, grumbling about the camp designers, but how it wasn’t such a big problem since the snipers were usually too stoned by ten am to actually hit anything….

…war is crazy, is what. you can be smart crazy and not so smart crazy, the way i see it.

7/30/08 @ 10:48 pm (reply)

satori

every part has its purpose. to me it seems as pointless as the brain looking down on the feet or something. they work much better together.

weird, wrydling, I just finished watching a very affecting war movie on mogadishu. I’m still processing.

7/30/08 @ 11:47 pm (reply)

Charlotte

That’s funny, I always saw the sniper position as elite or extra skilled as they had to have such exact marksmanship and stealth. I feel like it takes a particularly brave individual to zoom in so closely on and eliminate an individual rather than attack a faceless mob.

7/31/08 @ 1:08 am (reply)

goddess

well, i’ve played role playing games before with my hubby. not exactly real life, but i get the idea. the ranged weapons are safer and effective. but they don’t feel the same as more interactive combat.

while i personally don’t see it as cowardly, i understand the perspective. it’s got to take sometime entirely different from a person to face an enemy directly and fight close range as it does to hide and fight from afar.

7/31/08 @ 7:53 am (reply)

Elsa

Well I understand the trick is getting into position… and then getting your ass out of there of course.

7/31/08 @ 7:55 am (reply)

Jessica

Maybe so. But I can’t think “sniper” without remembering Barry Pepper’s character in Saving Private Ryan, who dies pretty heroically. That doesn’t mean Hollywood has it right, though.

7/31/08 @ 3:21 pm (reply)

Ana

I agree Charlotte. It is very stealthy…and exact. They plan and execute w/little to no room for mistakes. You’ve got to have a certain kind of courage (and prowess) to know that the shot you fire will be the one that kills. At close range this is true too, but it’s not as planned, controlled and exact. Also, snipers in the police force are usually called in as a last measure in very intense situations, they have to get it right on command.

7/31/08 @ 5:59 pm (reply)