Sniper Field Manual Excerpt: Shitting In An MRE Bag While Prone
The following is an excerpt from the updated US Army "Sniper Training" Field Manual 23-10, chapter 4, section 11: Occupation of Sniper Firing Positions.
Knowing how to shit in an MRE bag while prone is essential to the modern sniper’s mission. Contamination of a hide site with the olfactory cataclysm that is an MRE shit is unacceptable and should be avoided at all cost. Fortunately, the source of the problem is often part of the solution. MRE bags are great for shitting in.
There are many times over the course of your career as a sniper when you will be laying in a hide site, leg interlocked with your spotter on the 32nd hour of a 48 hour overwatch, wondering how you’re going to poop. It’s sleeting, freezing, and you haven’t slept since before the 40-minute ROE brief your platoon leader forced you to endure before the 11-mile infil. Quitting is not a word that any part of your body understands — except your colon.
In order to tactically and efficiently take a shit, move through the follo…
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