The Navy Seal Sniper Manual

by U.S. Department of the Navy

For half a century, Navy SEAL snipers have earned a reputation as the planet's deadliest warriors: inserting silently into hostile territory, dispatching entire squadrons of enemy soldiers, and extracting without detection. The Navy SEAL Sniper Manual is the bible these elite marksmen study and master long before taking on their first confidential mission. Upon earning their Trident, new SEALs head off to a final grueling training program to become lethal scout snipers. This detailed guide leads them through the intense training and covers everything from crafting effective camouflage, taking a hidden position, and estimating distance to planning a mission, hitting a moving target, and taking down an aircraft. The official step-by-step manual issued to America's most elite sniper unit, this guide is loaded with dozens of illustrations, range charts, and graphs. Whether they are targeting pirates on rolling seas or zeroing in on terrorist strongholds in the mountains of Afghanistan, America's combat commanders trust SEAL sniper teams to get the job done. With clear, step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations and charts, the sniper manual shows the amateur marksman how to hone his shooting skills the way elite warriors have done for decades.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

The United States Department of the Navy (DoN) was established by an Act of Congress on April 30, 1798, to provide a government organizational structure to the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps and, when directed by the President (or Congress during time of war), the United States Coast Guard, as a service within the Navy, though each remain independent service branches. The Department of the Navy was an Executive Department and the Secretary of the Navy was a member of the President's cabinet until 1949, when amendments to the National Security Act of 1947 changed the name of the National Military Establishment to the Department of Defense and made it an Executive Department. The Department of the Navy then became, along with the Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force, a Military Department within the Department of Defense: subject to the authority, direction and control of the Secretary of Defense.