This differs from a military sniper, who operates as part of a larger army, engaged in warfare.

A military sniper has often been given special training to use a sniper rifle, a special type of gun.

Items commonly carried by military or police snipers include:

Those clues lead to a trained military sniper named James Barr.

Another wants to grow up to be "a military sniper."

The red-shirts say a military sniper carried out the attack, an accusation the government has denied.

Some long-range shooters and military snipers use fixed-power scopes to eliminate this potential for error.

So even after all those years a trained military sniper had scored exactly what his old instructors would have expected.

Only military snipers did that kind of thing.

He should have been a military sniper, Charon thought, not for the first time.