(CNN) -- John Allen Muhammad, one of the two suspects in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks, is a twice-divorced, 41- year-old Gulf War veteran who converted to Islam 17 years ago and earned an expert marksmanship badge in the U.S. Army.
So they caught that sniper guy and it turns out he learned how to shoot in the Army! That reminds me of this scene from "Full Metal Jacket." If you haven't seen the movie, HARTMAN is the drill sargent, and the rest of the characters in this scene are Marines being trained to fight in Vietnam.
The platoon sits on bleachers facing
HARTMAN.
HARTMAN
Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was?
No response.
HARTMAN
None of you
dumbasses knows?
COWBOY raises his hand.
HARTMAN
Private Cowboy?
COWBOY
Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN
That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty
people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the
University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards.
HARTMAN looks around.
HARTMAN
Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was?
Almost everybody raises his hand.
HARTMAN
Private Snowball?
SNOWBALL
Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
HARTMAN
That's right, and do you know how far away he was?
SNOWBALL
Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!
The recruits laugh at "suppository. "
HARTMAN
All right, knock it off! Two
hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an
old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two
hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where
these individuals learned to shoot?
JOKER raises his hand.
HARTMAN
Private Joker?
JOKER
Sir, in the Marines, sir!
HARTMAN
In the Marines! Outstanding! Those
individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do!
And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
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