Sniper instructors course
Course training statement: “To train qualified snipers (officers & soldiers) how to plan, prepare & conduct sniper training including sniper field-craft, live fire sniper ranges & tactical exercises”
Course description: “The course provides the students with the skills & information required to conduct effective sniper training. The student learns how to thouroughly plan and prepare his training and the methods required to ensure his training delivery is specific, measurable & achievable”. The candidate is taught sniper programming, construction of field-craft & range letters and how to ensure his training is tactically orientated and mission focussed. This course includes conduct of sniper field exercises and sniper live fire ranges”
Course title: Sniper instructors course
Qualification: Sniper instructor
Course duration: 8 weeks
Teaching periods per day: 8
Length of teaching period: 40 minutes
Practical field exercises: Yes
Course entry standards
Rank: Qualified basic sniper (officers & soldiers)
Basic fitness test: 3.2 klm run
Endurance march: 16 klms with 15kg + weapon & fluids
Medical: Fit to attend arduous training
Block syllabus
- Qualities of a good instructor
- The sniper instructor
- Promoting and maintaining the desire to learn
- Question technique and confirmation
- Fault finding
- Construction of a small arms lesson plan
- Construction of a power-point lesson plan
- Construction of range boards
- Construction of syndicate range boxes
- Delivery of a small arms weapons lesson – rifle lesson one (1)
- Delivery of a small arms weapons lesson – rifle lesson two (2)
- Delivery of a small arms weapons lesson – rifle lesson three (3)
- Delivery of a small arms weapons lesson – rifle lesson four (4)
- Delivery of a small arms weapons lesson – rifle lesson five (5)
- Conducting rifle training tests
- Delivery of the introduction to sniping – history
- Student teaching periods small arms – lessons one to five (1-5)
- Delivery of the introduction to the scope lesson
- Delivery of the introduction to ballistics one – internal and external
- Delivery of range estimation one – theory – test and conditions
- Delivery of range estimation two – practical tewt outside area – use of mildot and appearance methods
- Planning and conduct of a gallery range – construction of a range letter
- Practical demonstration – grouping and zeroing – 100 metres
- Delivery of how to maintain and record weapon cleaning and weapons fault reports
- Delivery of introduction to observation, field sketching, logging and reporting
- Conditions of the observation test
- Observation one – why things are seen demonstration
- Delivery of construction of a conventional sniper range card
- Construction of a theory lesson plan
- Student delivery – bore-sighting grouping & zeroing/slip scale – elementary application of fire
- Student delivery power point lessons
- Construction of a ghillie suit and camouflage of a weapon system
- Delivery of different natures of munitions
- Introduction into camouflage and concealment – why things are seen
- Conduct and conditions of camouflage and concealment stands
- Introduction to stalking
- Delivery of stalk demonstration tewt
- Conduct and conditions – the stalk
- Construction of a field-craft letter
- The defence systems approach to training
- Training objectives and enabling objectives
- Programming, internal and external validation
- Training (scoping) needs and analysis study
- Presentations and briefings
- Practical student delivery – sniper field craft
- Practical delivery – conduct elementary application of sniper fire (live fire ranges)
- Practical delivery – conduct advance application of fire (live fire ranges)
- How to delivery sniper tactics, techniques 7 procedures lessons; including
- Introduction to patrols
- Obstacle crossing
- Tactical pauses and short halts
- Troop link up and harbour
- The rv system
- Contact drills
- Ambushing
- Arid ops
- Urban ops
- The op demonstration
- Delivery of specialist to role sniping (counter terrorism)
- Delivery of sniper employment – all phases of war
- Delivery of orders & sniper mission planning
- How to evaluate snipers
- Student report writing
- Conduct of tactical exercises
- Tactical commanders brief
- Advising higher formation on sniper matters
- Pre mission deploment preparation, roles & responsibilities