• MystikIncarnate
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    7 months ago

    My understanding of the original comment was that it was a marksman/spotter. Those are two people who work in tandem to perform a function.

    The spotter looks at the larger picture, usually with some kind of binocular or similar, looking for threats and scanning a large area. Their other function is to protect the marksman. So if a threat (or anything really) approaches their position, the marksman can continue to focus on their job, while the spotter defends their position.

    The marksman is simply just a sniper. It’s a fancy name for a sniper.

    They deploy like this in pretty much every operation. Two man teams. The spotter providing protection and support for the marksman, and the marksman executing the mission.

    I feel like people missed that, or maybe I misunderstood the poster? IDK.

    Killing people is bad.

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      7 months ago

      A needless inaccurate distinction obscuring what it really is, it is a sniper. It is not normal. These crowds existed before the snipers arrived and will exist long after the protests end.

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        7 months ago

        I’m not trying to obfuscate anything. The job title of a “sniper” is “marksman”.

        A marksman is basically a highly accurate Rifleman which is a type of infantry.

        This is all military shit.

        “Sniper” is just a more commonly used term for a marksman, but they’re exactly the same thing.

        The only point to my comment is that you seemed to think that the commenter saying it was a marksman meant it wasn’t a sniper. They’re literally the same job.

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        7 months ago

        Are they also not the students from the school? So they would have been on campus but not all in one place anyway.

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            7 months ago

            Umm, I think you have my point backwards… unless you are implying the protesters are sinners?

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              7 months ago

              I’m saying it doesn’t matter if the people at the protest went to school there or not, that the sniper isn’t warranted, but I do apologize that in a heated moment I accused you of intentionally aiding the opposition.

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                7 months ago

                Oh, no worries. I was confused but I don’t think I made my point clear. It was just adding on the ridiculous notion that a large amount of people means snipers for some reason, these people from what I can see would be on campus anyway and the only difference I can see from say 3 months ago would be the political protests.