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From the 20th century to try to identify which garment fits into which decade. So thats friday. Hope to see you then. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] join us each saturday at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern for classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of American History. Lectures in history ar...

Lessons learned. It was noted a well trained sniper is the best protection against enemy snipers. They must be experts with specialized weapons and combat skills. Also thereir commanders education in this area is vital. The Sniper Program was shortlived. But vietnam revised the need for snipers because of enemy forces in vietnam, illustrating the effectiveness of sniper techniques under varying tactical conditions. United states snipers in vietnam used 2. 3 rounds per kill versus thousands of ro...

States used rifles to conduct sniper operations. World war ii taught us that a sniper is a weapon of opportunity and a typical rifleman cannot be assigned the sniper mission. Every marksman is not a sniper. Every sniper is a marksman. During the korean conflict, army and marine corps commanders failed to appreciate the techniques and capabilities of snipers. As a result, a Sniper School was founded by the United States Army Infantry school in 19551956 to pass on these lessons learned. It was not...

When i begin a project, i know very little about my topics. As i begin to do the research, i go on a treasure hunt. That is the way i like to look at it. I use primary sources in order to gather the material i need to write nonfiction books that not only inaccurate but hopefully interesting. When i began to look into a book about George Washington and decided to write this book i began with George Washington in the very same way. I knew very little about washington. I had heard of course that he...

From the countrys bestknown American History writers of the past decade every saturday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. To watch these programs anytime visit our website, www. Cspan. Org history. You are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Next weekend marks the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday when Voting Rights advocates on a march from selma through montgomery, alabama, were met with violence from montgomery state troopers. American history tv will be live from selma nex...

Archival films that help to tell the story of american history. Up next is a training film that outlines the history of snipers and the American Military and shows how snipers should be deployed and used in a variety of combat situations. Some of these techniques may have been used by the late u. S. Navy seal chris kyle, whose memoir of four tors in the middle east was the basis for the Academy Award nominated film american sniper. The military sniper dates from the time of the revolutionary war...

Will be hit with tax increases. The total is roughly 320 billion in the president s proposal tomorrow night at the state of the Union Hearing about it first today. Whats interesting is what it will be used to pay for. What will actually come out of that. Part of it is 60 billion for another plan the president will talk about tomorrow night socalled Free Community college. Of course, it is not free because it will cost about 60 billion. Thats part of the reason he is raising taxes. Other bit is w...

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Closing arguments ended less than 30 minutes ago. I know you were listening in. What can you tell us . Reporter prosecutors really hammered away at eddie ray mouthrouth far from insane. With a personality disorder. On the gun range that Eddie Ray Routh led true colors show and let his freak flag fly and hammered away all of the excuses, describe all of the symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. Those were simply excuses made by someone a cold and calculated killer. Defense attorneys turned aro...

Recently retired sniper, chris kyle. he was on the show a few episodes back. he decided how to know whether or not to take a target. its a process hes learned. a former navy s.e.a.l. himself, his new book tells the story of how he went from a california surfer to one of americas most elite soldiers. with us now is retired navy s.e.a.l. brandon webb, former course manager for the navy s.e.a.l. sniper program. he wrote the best seller "the red circle," the sniper corps and how i trained the worlds...