The Ruger S-F-A-R is one of the trim as 308 modern sporting rifles available. More power, but lighter in the field and range. See how light it is at Ruger.com. All right, back with you, I'm Tom Gresh, but if you want to join us, just give me a call. It's pretty easy. Tom, Talk Gun is the number. I can't remember any other way. Just Tom, that's me, Tom. And we talk guns. Tom, talk gun. Give me a call. We can talk of, you know, if you got a new gun, you want to know something about, you want to tell me about your purchase, you want to tell me how it all happened. That's great. We're just swapping stories. We're basically sitting around the digital campfire here and having a good old time, all right?

I want to talk about something I was frankly not aware of and only recently found out about.

Joining me right now is retired lieutenant colonel Brian von Herblis, and I hope, Brian, I hope I got that right on your last name, sir.

Yeah, he sure did, Tom.

Okay, good deal.

All right.

So retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, and you were special operations officer

and reconnaissance, and I gather that you actually went through the training for Marine

Scout sniper. Yeah, that's right. I had... and I gather that you actually went through the training for Marine Scout Sniper.

Yeah, that's right.

I had a unique privilege of attending Marine Corps Scout Sniper course back in 1998.

So we're talking about the Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation.

What is that and what's it about?

Yeah, the Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation is a 501C3 nonprofit whose mission is to

simply remember the sacrifice and honor the legacy of those that served as Marine Corps scouts snipers.

And that expands, you know, about a hundred year history and legacy of those that contributed

to various efforts of the Marine Corps from World War I spanning through the most recent

global war on terror operations.

So, I mean, a lot of people know I know about snipers, but what's the scout part of scout sniper?

The scouting part was to gather information at the infantry battalion level that could be used and synthesized into intelligence

information and spread across the battlefield to friendly troops. So it was a dual-purpose mission.

They were scouts collecting info, and then they had the additional mission of precision rifle fire,

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