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May-17-2004 » Filed Under: General Military

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By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes

ARLINGTON, Va. — Attention, deployed snipers: Your brothers-in-arms back home want to send you gear.

A group of police and military snipers has started “Adopt a Sniper” to donate equipment to deployed military members.

It’s the brainchild of Brian Sain, a police SWAT member for 15 years who works as a detective in the Port Arthur (Texas) Police Department.

Sain said he was inspired by the close-knit “sniper fraternity,” whose military and civilian police members are unusually interwoven. “A lot of SWAT [members] are former military, and a lot of them are reservists who are now going over” to Iraq and Afghanistan, Sain said. “And even if you’re not military, getting shot at is getting shot at, no matter where you are.”

Visit www.adoptasniper.com or www.snipersonline.org for more information.


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