canadian sniper

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

...IIRC. It still stands, as far as I know.

That was a while back now, and those sniper teams were called back to Canada sometime afterwards because it was politically incorrect to get headlines for being the best in the world at [gasp!] killing the BGs. The Americans wanted to decorate them, but the government of the time blanched.

What our teams would do when working in support of the Yanks was to cover the hilltop flanks as the Americans advanced up the valleys and re-entrants. It worked...