{"id":38298,"date":"2024-11-11T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/11\/11\/marine-snipers-often-overlooked-build-a-memorial-for-their-fallen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:56:26","slug":"marine-snipers-often-overlooked-build-a-memorial-for-their-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2024\/11\/11\/marine-snipers-often-overlooked-build-a-memorial-for-their-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine snipers, often overlooked, build a memorial for their fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps sniper community is seeking honor their community\u2019s fallen via a new war memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the USMC Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation have a long-term plan, design and are raising the necessary $5 million it will take to build the <a href=\"https:\/\/scoutsniperheritage.org\/memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Scout Sniper War Memorial<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmcmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Museum of the Marine Corps<\/a> in Quantico, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team is <a href=\"https:\/\/scoutsniperheritage.org\/scout-sniper-war-memorial-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\">selling raffle tickets<\/a> now for its first <a href=\"https:\/\/scoutsniperheritage.org\/scout-sniper-war-memorial-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\">annual raffle<\/a> of an authentic Marine M40 sniper rifle used in combat in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rifle and its components are valued at about $15,000. Those interested can purchase raffle tickets on the foundation website. The drawing will be held on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2023\/12\/28\/the-marine-corps-has-trained-its-final-8-scout-snipers\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout-sniper-graduation.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The Marine Corps has trained its final 8 scout snipers<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Marine Corps is cutting infantry battalions\u2019 scout sniper platoons and replacing them with scout platoons.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Master Sgt. Tim Parkhurst heads the foundation, which is partnered with the Marine Scout Sniper Association, and is trying to appeal to a wide swath of veteran supporters to raise funds for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur mission is to remember the sacrifice and honor the legacy of 105 years of scout sniper service,\u201d Parkhurst said. \u201cWe feel like your average patriotic American ought to be able to get behind this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The names of the fallen will be included on the memorial when completed, and Parkhurst and his team are digging through thousands of personnel records from more than 100 years to identify who served as snipers and who among them died because of combat action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project started earlier this year, and the team has nearly 3,000 names, with likely a few thousand more to be added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parkhurst estimates that they\u2019ve discovered nearly 250 Marine scout snipers killed in action so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The foundation has raised $100,000 toward their project goal. Once the total amount is raised, construction could be completed in under 18 months, Parkhurst said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parkhurst joined the Corps in 1986 and graduated scout sniper training in 1991. He later served as a sniper team leader with the Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment before briefly leaving the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was the best time of my life,\u201d Parkhurst said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parkhurst rejoined the Corps five years later, ultimately serving 25 years and retiring in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3150\" height=\"2100\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout_Sniper_Memorial_Birds_Eye_Architectural_View_.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout_Sniper_Memorial_Birds_Eye_Architectural_View_.jpeg.jpg 3150w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout_Sniper_Memorial_Birds_Eye_Architectural_View_.jpeg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout_Sniper_Memorial_Birds_Eye_Architectural_View_.jpeg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout_Sniper_Memorial_Birds_Eye_Architectural_View_.jpeg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout_Sniper_Memorial_Birds_Eye_Architectural_View_.jpeg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scout_Sniper_Memorial_Birds_Eye_Architectural_View_.jpeg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3150px) 100vw, 3150px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An artist rendering of the potential garden location at the National Museum of the Marine Corps for the planned Marine Scout Sniper War Memorial. (Ben Cantwell Art)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he didn\u2019t serve the rest of that time as a sniper, because in the Corps\u2019 infinite wisdom, they made him a parachute rigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The master sergeant\u2019s story is a common one among generations of Marine snipers \u2013 early training, perhaps a deployment and then it\u2019s time for those snipers to return to their primary jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The job of sniper is not a primary military occupational specialty, and that has ramifications on the work that Parkhurst and his team are doing to honor the fallen scout snipers going back to at least 1918.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was never treated like a real job,\u201d Parkhurst said. \u201cIt\u2019s something they sort of grudgingly acknowledged they need when the war starts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in this current interwar period, snipers have once again fallen victim to defense cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine Corps Times reported that the service held its final Scout Sniper Course graduation at the School of Infantry-East at Camp Geiger, North Carolina in December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier that year, the Corps announced it would cut scout sniper platoons from its infantry battalions and replace them with reconnaissance scout platoons as part of restructuring the service has conducted in recent years to prepare for potential conflicts with nations such as China and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scout sniper training has ceased but other sniper training will continue such as at the service\u2019s Reconnaissance Training Center and the Marine Raider Training Center, Marine Corps Times previously reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the scout sniper platoons have been treated as an add-on to infantry battalions, their members have often fallen under their respective infantry communities, Parkhurst said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Marine Raiders, Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets and even Recon Marines have an identifiable parent unit, primary MOS and officer and staff noncommissioned officer with the same job, most snipers saw their careers as shooters end at the rank of staff sergeant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t until the early 2000s that snipers received dedicated officers to command their units. Before then, Parkhurst said, one of the infantry battalion staff officers would oversee snipers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>CLARIFICATION: This article has been updated to clarify some of the fundraising process for the memorial and organizational aspects of past scout sniper units.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation needs to raise about $5 million for the 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