77th JSOC / Public Servers / Guides / Marksman
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Job description
As a marksman, your main priority is to spot and eliminate targets at mid-range distances. You also provide fire support from an overwatching position when your squad moves up.
Responsibilities
- Spotting enemy hostiles, informing your Squad Leader about impending threats
- Provide fire support at mid-range distances
- Overwatch members of your fire-team who are pushing up.
Extended profile
As a marksman you are the mid-range supporting unit for your squad. Your main tasks exist out of spotting enemy hostiles and informing your Squad Leader about possible threats.
You will be equipped with a marksman rifle, accompanied with most likely a Designated Marksman Scope (DMS). The combination of both rifle and scope makes you the ideal candidate to effectively eliminate incoming threats from a distance up to 700m.
Eventhough the DMS can be set to a maximum range of 1200m, exceeding the 700m mark will render your shots significantly less effective. Remember that your role is to provide supporting engagement at mid-range distances.
Ideally, you would have a teammate giving you a range on the incoming enemy forces, much like a spotter does for a sniper. While recieving that range or after having calculated the range with your rangefinder, it is essential to increment or decrement your scope's range to fire at the right distance.
When your Squad Leader decides it is time to move up you should take up an overwatching position, providing supporting fire whenever necessary untill your fire-team has reached its destination. In the ideal scenario you would stay behind along with the Combat Life Saver and bound to the rest of your squad once they have secured their newly gained position.