Be Effective Not Right

Bang.

This was the third shot that the sniper student missed. One more, and he was done. Out of sniper school. A failure.

I looked down and noticed that the student’s body position was still off despite my earlier coaching to correct it. The final round cracked off, and nothing else was heard—no sound of lead impacting steel at a distance, no “hit” uttered by the spotter. Nothing except the sound of what was now a former sniper student’s head landing on the shooting mat.

“Man, I think there’s so...