Thanks Gary, seems like the gentleman in question is another bull**** artist feeding off the reputation of genuine Vets! He asked the question as the person he was inquiring about claimed to have been a sniper in Vietnam in 1968. Ah well, they are out there.

The memory fades but I’m fairly sure we had no snipers in our battalion in Vietnam as they was no call for them in jungle warfare where vision was so limited. We had plenty of sharp shooters though.
I recall on one occasion I set a night ambush near Ap Thu an Bien on the Long Green coast waiting for VC sampans to land with supplies for their Long Hais bases. The vision was about 200 metres from the sand dunes and whilst we had our usual weapons and starlight scopes to assist night vision, we did not have snipers or special weapons with us.
In different parts of the country where the terrain was different from Phuoc Tuy there may have been a need for snipers and maybe even used them but that is beyond my knowledge.
Regards, Dave.

Thanks Dave, I do not remember that one so it must have been before you took over the Company. I must have been off somewhere else with Claude.

No I wasn't with C Company at the time Al. I was still the Adjutant and in April 1969 I took an ambush patrol of BHQ and Support Company men from FSPB Bruiser located in the Long Green to the south of Xuyen Moc. We went from Bruiser due south to the coast missing the well used tracks to avoid the plentiful mines down there.