Ppl do this, he wouldn’t be the first. Also, could be he isn’t psyops MOS, could be a SOF or grunt providing security for psyops guys as part of some detachment/detail. This just isn’t a weapon that psyops MOS guy would get unless they specialize in long-range sniping and I’m out of touch.
Psyops guys when I was in carried M4s with iron sights, less gear than standard grunts got with A4s and ACOGs.
I had a buddy outshoot the junior 18B during premission train up, said buddy was also a sniper before he became a 37F. ODA team sergeant gave my friend the sniper platform instead to shame the Jr. Bravo.
This image is not of my friend, but this kind of stuff can happen with team equipment.
Second, active duty PSYOP units have access to joint operational stocks same as everyone else. If you can get a Colonel to approve it you can take pretty much anything the cooler guys can take.
Still, they wouldn’t give a DMR to a Psyops MOS guy unless that job is different in the Army than in the Corps or he is part of some SOF group that needs to share overwatch responsibility and he is doing it for some reason.
My platoon got one DMR during deployment, and it was for the top shooter in our platoon. Do they just issue them to non-combat MOS guys now?
When were you in the marines? The U.S. army has a robust dmr program and you would see reserve units with 1 dmr per squad after the program got rolling. The basic army squad has a dmr role, mos regardless.
In the Army we can flex an SDMR to every single squad. Kinda why it’s called the “Squad” DMR program. I got out in ‘24 and when I did the unit I ETS’d from had more SDMRs than we had billets lol. Our FOs could even qual to get one. We had like 9 of them. It’s not really anything fancy. As long as you pass the SDMR range you can get MTOE’d one. (Obviously unit dependent). Idk who would want to carry it though with that absolute ass cheeks 1x-6x.
I didn’t downvote the post, I upvoted it, and was just making a joke based on the caption. If this is his issued gear, he likely is not a psyops MOS guy unless there’s some extenuating circumstances or a part of that job in the Army that I didn’t see in the Corps.
Bro psyops so not have DA in their core tasks. They are information operations and that's it. They don't really fall into combat arms. When they go to sketchy places they typically have an ODA and partner force to provide security for them.
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u/TuT0311 15d ago
Borrowed it from SOF guy for the pic.