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craig_harrison [2021/06/09 04:13]
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 ====== Craig Harrison ====== ====== Craig Harrison ======
  
-Craig Harrison has the furthest recorded confirmed sniper kill from 2,475 m. He struck and killed two Taliban gunners.+==== Furthest recorded confirmed sniper ==== 
 +Craig Harrison has the furthest recorded confirmed sniper kill from 2,475 m. He struck and killed two Taliban gunners. [([[http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/133379/Sniper-s-Taliban-shots-earn-him-place-in-military-record-books|Daily Star]])] 
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 +==== First was Dragunov ==== 
 +Harrison first used a sniper rifle, firing a Dragunov rifle (SVD) on a firing range near the British military base in Split, Croatia. In his autobiography The Longest Kill, Harrison described the rifle as looking like an "elongated AK," and after firing at a tree, he said it "practically split it in half." [([[https://www.army-technology.com/features/best-sniper-rifles/|Army Technology]])] 
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 +==== PTSD ==== 
 +After returning from Afghanistan in 2009 Craig Harrison suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and was discharged from the army in 2014. [([[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-32823131|BBC]])] 
  
-====== References ====== 
-[[http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/133379/Sniper-s-Taliban-shots-earn-him-place-in-military-record-books|Sniper's Taliban shots earn him place in military record books - Daily Star]] 
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