Comments by "rob shirewood" (@robshirewood5060) on "How Military Snipers Evolved" video.

  1. You forgot to mention that in ww1 the Lovat Scouts, who were all expert shots, hunters, stalkers, Ghillies on Scottish Highland estates, some of the top marksmen in the UK were recruited to form a sniper training Regiment, that taught their skills to British soldiers chosen to be snipers. They also had designed the concept of the Ghillie suit of camouflage used by snipers ever since. It continued in ww2. Also in ww2 the Auxiliary units of the British Home Guard, actually specially trained platoons and teams of men with local knowledge such as hunters, gamekeepers, parkers, foresters, etc a force of underground commandos intended as a last stand guerrilla force should the Germans have invaded the UK, also used ghillie suits taking those skills with them later in the war to 1st and 2nd SAS Regiments in France after D-Day. Men such as Peter Fleming (brother of Ian ) , Michael Calvert, Anthony Quayle, and others all famous in SAS and SOE roles. The Ghillie suit is a very personal thing in the way it is designed. My great grandfather was a sniper with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in ww1,
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  2. SAS Regiment used a 50 cal firing single shots to knock out numerous Dhofari Yemeni terrorist snipers in the Oman wars in the 1970s
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  3.  @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing  The Russians turned their ICBM's away from the west after the fall of the USSR,  and only pointed them back again when the west in particular the USA became belligerent again. The current crisis in Ukraine was also caused by the USA and NUlands illegal coup which led to the illegal government using military weapons against civilians in the east, war crimes and now look at the situation all blamed on the Russians. Take a look at Hunter and Joke bidens dirty fingers  on policy in Ukraine.
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  4. I made a similar comment before I read yours. I never knew it was at Cannock Chase thanks for the additional information
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  5.  @richarddoig1865  Wrong, i am a history buff, i like facts. I am also a Brit who hates fascism and communism
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  6.  @richarddoig1865  The comparison to ww2 and now is very thin. I know how ww2 began, it had its seed in the immediate period after ww1, especially Versailles, but also had its conception before 1900. As a senior British General said "Re taking Crimea was the most logical thing Russia could have done to protect his Black Sea Fleet bases" Russia knew Ukraine would pose a problem in the future, in the light of the encroachment of NATO eastwards, braking their agreement 5 times NOT to move eastwards. The people of Crimea seem to be perfectly happy to be Russian again , i have worked with a number in British hospitals, who still have family in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine. Obama, Biden, Nuland had their fingers in the 2014 coup, fact, Biden and Nuland are implicated now. The result being that since 2014 Russian ethnic, Ukraine citizen civilians in Donbas and Lugansk have endured hell at the hands of Poroshenko and Zelensky using military weapons against them, which constitute war crimes under many laws including Ukraine's. One incident in a July day was the shelling by 152 mm artillery pieces, of 100 rounds over a 4 hour period in Donbas alone. OSCE reports which i have had since before 2014 to date show the extent of the abuse of the Donbas and Lugansk regions. Zelensky recently referred to nuclear weapons for Ukraine, an insane idea, i am sure this was one of the triggers for Putin to invade to make sure Ukraine's stock of nucelar materials was reduce by capturing the Chernobyl Nuclear complex which makes good sense to prevent the use in any form by Ukraine's war criminals. Another insanity by Zelensky was the demand for immediate membership of the EU, nobody is afforded that, it is merely a pretext to draw western europe into his propaganda swamp. Chamberlain was not the only politician to make tenuous deals with Hitler, to wish for peace after the slaughter of ww1 was a laudable, if forlorn hope, however he and others had been preparing for a possible conflict from well before 1935, the UK defences were not unprepared. I would prefer Peace anytime to conflict but sometimes it is inevitable. IF and i repeat IF one of Putin's aims was to prevent Ukraine's war criminal leaders from using any form of nuclear device as a weapon or last ditch suicidal act, against Russia which might have gone wrong and affected other European nations including NATO, then he may well have forestalled a nuclear disaster in Ukraine, Russia or Europe, which is to everyone's benefit. Time will tell when the truth comes out. We can only give our opinions. Mine is based on service in two branches of the military and medical experience in many fields including combat medicine (and that includes NBC/CBRN) looking forward to your next criticisms.
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  7.  @richarddoig1865  I walk a centre line, neither left nor right, committed to life and reality, i have to as a medical professional. Stay safe, and wise, all the best.
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