Special Forces Sniper Course | SFSC

A Special Forces soldier moves through woodland terrain while on the Special Forces Sniper Course (SFSC) at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.

The SFSC is a 8 week course, run 5 times a year, that teaches sniper marksmanship, including semiautomatic shooting and ballistics theory.

SFSC students also learn field craft which includes tactical movement, ie stalking, in which a sniper covertly finds and fixes his prey.

Stalking techniques are taught in both wooded and urban environments.

The Special Forces Sniper Course also instructs in the use of state-of-the-art equipment such as a PDA loaded with an advanced ballistics software program.

These ballistic PDAs are used to help calculate a shot and factor in a range of variables such as gun data, atmospherics, temperature, barometric pressure, humidity and target information - everything except for wind.

Special Forces snipers learn to use visual cues such as the movement of grass to gauge wind speed and direction.