Ex-cheerleader that can shoot

[Nemo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper

 

Top Three:

 

British Army CoH Craig Harrison of the Household Cavalry successfully engaged two Taliban machine gunners south of Musa Qala in Helmand Province in Afghanistan in November 2009 at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd), using a L115A3 Long Range Rifle rifle chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum. These are the longest recorded and confirmed sniper kills in history.[21][22][23][24]

 

Canadian Corporal Rob Furlong, formerly of the PPCLI (Operation Anaconda, Afghanistan) - achieved a recorded and confirmed sniper kill at 2,430 m (2,657 yd) in 2002 using a .50 caliber (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 rifle.[59]

 

Canadian Master Corporal Arron Perry, formerly of the PPCLI (Operation Anaconda, Afghanistan) - briefly held the record for the longest-ever recorded and confirmed sniper kill at 2,310 m (2,526 yd) in 2002 after eclipsing US Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock's previous record established in 1967. Perry used a .50 caliber (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 rifle.[59]

[Cudz]

The girl is a sharpshooter but whe is not 19, not canadian and did not shoot a guy planting a raodside bomb. She is 23 and is in the US air force. Read this article.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/Polly-Jan-Bobseine.htm

 

PS she looks better with the gun against her face.

Edited December 2, 2010 by Cudz

[Billy Bob]

My grandfather was a sniper in the trenches of France during WW1 and killed more than his share. He always said it was a job he hated doing but was something that had to be done.

 

Kill them before they kill you.

Lew, if I could I would salute your grandfather and buy him a beer......

 

Now on a funny note that you mention France......

 

I have several French rifles from WWII for sale...never fired and only dropped once...LOL

[Terry]

Joe:Hey Bill, what were people in France famous for?

 

Bill: ah.. uh ..well....I give up

 

Joe: That's correct

[mercman]

What's a meter ? ? ?

 

here ya go BB

 

The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977, and presently play together and in various combinations of musicians under the name the Funky Meters and the Original Meters.

[Billy Bob]

Joe:Hey Bill, what were people in France famous for?

 

Bill: ah.. uh ..well....I give up

 

Joe: That's correct

 

Now that FUNNY.....

[Headhunter]

Go to google

type in "French military victories"

hit "I feel lucky"

You will get a google response that says...

 

"Do you mean French military defeats"!

HH

[bigugli]

Go to google

type in "French military victories"

hit "I feel lucky"

You will get a google response that says...

 

"Do you mean French military defeats"!

HH

Be nice, France terrified Europe under Bonaparte. Then again he was Corsican/ Italian. Not French at all.

[John]

What's a meter ? ? ?

 

A meter is an instrument of measurement, ie., electricity meter, a metre is a unit of measurement, approximately 39 inches.. dang Americans....

[blaque]

A meter is an instrument of measurement, ie., electricity meter, a metre is a unit of measurement, approximately 39 inches.. dang Americans....

 

I knew all that, but whats a metre

[John]

I knew all that, but whats a metre

 

Will this do....

 

 

The word itself is from the Greek metron (μετρον), "a measure" via the French mètre. Its first recorded usage in English is from 1797.

 

In the eighteenth century, there were two favoured approaches to the definition of the standard unit of length. One suggested defining the metre as the length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second. The other suggested defining the metre as one ten-millionth of the length of the earth's meridian along a quadrant (one-fourth the polar circumference of the earth). In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences selected the meridional definition, using the meridian of Paris, over the pendular definition because of the slight variation of the force of gravity over the surface of the earth, which affects the period of a pendulum. In August1793, the Republican Government in France decreed that the standard unit of length would be 10exp-7 of the earth's quadrant passing through Paris and that the unit be called the metre. Five years later the survey of the arc was completed and three platinum standards and several iron copies were made. Subsequent analysis showed that the length of the earth's quadrant had been incorrectly surveyed resulting in the first prototype metre bar being short by a fifth of a millimetre (due to miscalculation of the flattening of the earth), instead of altering the length of the metre to maintain the 10exp-7 ratio, the metre was redefined as the distance between two marks on a bar. So, the circumference of the Earth through the poles is only approximately forty million metres.

 

In the 1870s and in light of modern precision, a series of international conferences were held to devise new metric standards. The Treaty of the Metre (1875) mandated the establishment of a permanent International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) to be located in Sèvres, France. This new organization would preserve the new prototype metre and kilogram when constructed, and would maintain comparisons between them and the basic units of other, nonmetric, weights and measures. This organisation created a new prototype bar in 1889, establishing the International Prototype Metre as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of ninety percent platinum and ten percent iridium.

 

In 1893, the standard metre was first measured with an interferometer by Albert A. Michelson, the inventor of the device and an advocate of using some particular wavelength of light as a standard of distance. By 1925, interferometry was in regular use at the BIPM. However, the International Prototype Metre remained the standard until 1960, when the eleventh General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM: Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures) defined the metre in the new SI system as equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum.

 

To further reduce uncertainty, the seventeenth CGPM of 1983 replaced the definition of the metre with its current definition, thus fixing the length of the metre in terms of time and the speed of light:

[bigugli]

Only the French could take a simple measure and turn it into a ruddy great wad of bureaucratic bumpf that has to be continually defined and redesigned, thereby keeping several hundred idle minds on the public payroll.

 

On top of it all, the French still can't shoot straight

[John]

Only the French could take a simple measure and turn it into a ruddy great wad of bureaucratic bumpf that has to be continually defined and redesigned, thereby keeping several hundred idle minds on the public payroll.

 

On top of it all, the French still can't shoot straight

 

[Billy Bob]

I think you guys need to get back to using inches, feet, pounds and miles...much better system.....oh wait, most do here on OFC....

 

Bob