How Army Snipers Create Camouflage Ghillie Suits For Combat | Boot Camp | Insider Business

Students at the US Army Sniper Course at Fort Benning learn essential skills in marksmanship and fieldcraft, including how to make a ghillie suit. Ghillie suits are a type of camouflage clothing that snipers wear to blend in with their environment. During week two of the Sniper Course, students participate in an event known as a ghillie wash, which is designed to test the suits’ durability as well as to weather and add natural color to the suits. Students’ ghillie suits are put to the test during stalk events, where they cover themselves in natural vegetation and must stealthily move through wooded terrain without being spotted by instructors. Insider spent two days at the US Army Sniper Course to see how students craft their ghillie suits and how they’re utilized during training.

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How Army Snipers Create Camouflage Ghillie Suits For Combat | Boot Camp | Insider Business

[itstysonpham]

Instructor: PRIVATE I DID NOT SEE YOU AT THE CAMO EXERCISE TODAY

P: THANK YOU, SIR!

[TheSixStringGuy]

Wow I didn't realize every ghillie suit is a home made version that they themselves made. Very cool!

[PodmornicaFTW]

With his long range, high precision shooting and arts and crafts, the modern day sniper is a force to be reckoned with.

[cowboyx]

Spent 7 years SWAT, 5 years SWAT Snipe…and remember making my ghille! It was a serious endeavor, but turned out perfect! Actually had an officer step on me while deployed on a stand off!

[giusepperesponte]

I used to airsoft as a teen and I used a sniper and made my own ghillie suit. I bought jute and an old uniform from a military supply. I used dark green and brown dyed burlap for the mesh, and tied in a lot of natural foliage from the environment. Crafting that ghillie suit and using it to blend in might well be the most fun thing I’ve ever done. The feeling of someone walking right by you and being able to blend in, all from your own work in making the suit, it’s a truly great feeling.

[AvalonLol]

Very informative! I never thought about how the snipers have to physically test their ghillie suits with mud, water, sand etc. Learned a lot, love this video

[jthavorn]

It’s like an extreme game of hide n seek with practice in being a gardener.

[betterchapter]

Camouflage so good took Me 3 days to find it in my recommendations

[colemcniel]

The instructor is SFC Reynolds. He was my first SGT in basic. He’s terrifying

[NoahSpurrier]

I had a friend who made ghillie suits for paintball games. It was amazing. It was like the Predator. He would disappear in the woods. He became THE guy to find.

[veronicaestoque]

Ah yes it’s currently midnight, time to learn about ghillie suits

[_J_U_S_T_I_N_]

The only bad thing about this episode is it wasn't long enough.

[MrAlucard]

I made my ghillie suit in 95 and still have it. Started with 25 only 11 of us graduated.

[stephenland]

What I've found while bow hunting is that camouflage works great as long as you're motionless. You literally disappear. As soon as you move, you're visible.

[wickedcabinboy]

I grew up a little over a mile from the Sand Hill entrance to Ft Benning. This was before the entrances on St Mary's Road and Buena Vista Road were gated. We spent many summer days playing out there in the woods, picking up stuff the Box Heads left behind, like ammo clips, spent shells and C-rations (last half of the 1960s). There was almost never, ever anyone in that area on the weekends. Times have changed. The entire western border of Ft Benning is now fenced in. And the gates locked permanently. And yes, that red clay is everywhere.

[aaroncox]

I graduated from fort benning Georgia and let me tell you … you can walk 100 meters and the entire environment and foliage completely changes ! It’s crazy fort benning provides so much training opportunities

[kokonana]

Am I the only one that surprised by the price tag and the durability of the Ghillie suits? 100$ for that piece of ripped clothes and it can last for years. That's amazing!

[report]

Every soldiers worst enemy in the battlefield is a well skilled Sniper

[ripsaebri]

def appreciate the suits now, i figured it would all be built off the same piece of gear by now, but this method proves more effective

[oldankh]

There's a guy in my town who walks around in a ghillie suit just chilling, doesn't bother anything or anyone he just walks around or will be laying down next to bushes lol cool dude.