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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old



Sniper's Serenity-
A green phantom stalks these lands,
Thirty Ought Six in a Master's hands.
Chamber a matched, perfect round,
Slide home the bolt, forward and down.

Stay detached, loose and cool,
Time your breathing, remember the rule.
Get them now, kill them clean,
before they can hurt another Marine.

The first dies quick, the second has looked,
that one dies fast, a third has booked.
Number Three goes down, sight on Number Four,
this one's for my Brothers, Brothers of the Corps.

Even now at home, I remember that scene,
the four of them and a young Marine,
I would do it again, once more with pride,
to protect my Marines, the enemy has died.

- By Robert W. Baird, U.S.M.C. Sniper

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Today in Military History

January 12



1915:

German use of poison shells reported from Paris


1916:

An Order-in-Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War


1943:

HMCS Ville de Quebec sinks the German submarine U-224 in the western Mediterranean Sea




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