A British sniper team in Afghanistan (Credit: ABC)
ABC News (Australia): Craig Harrison: World-record-holding British sniper haunted by visions of men he killed
The former British army marksman who holds the record for the longest range sniper kill in combat says he has lost all trust in the armed forces because of the way he has been treated.
Craig Harrison, who served as a sergeant in the Blues and Royals cavalry regiment, killed a Taliban machine gunner with a shot over a distance of 2.5 kilometres - the length of 25 football fields, and almost twice as long as his rifle's listed effective range
The seemingly impossible shot saved his comrades and saw him commended for extraordinary gallantry.
"I just believed that I had to do something to get 12 men that were stuck in vehicles out of the situation," he recalls.
Update: British 'world-record sniper' says he can still see and smell the people he killed in his nightmares -- The Independent
WNU Editor: Sadly .... these visions will probably stay with him for the rest of his life. My father served in the Second World War on the Russian front .... his nightmares stayed with him till the day that he passed away.
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