page_title: United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper
section_title: Scout Sniper Course
hierarchical_section_title: United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper / Scout Sniper Course
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context_page_description: United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper is a secondary MOS designator of U.S. Marine Corps infantrymen and reconnaissance Marines that have graduated from a U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper School. Scout Snipers must earn the rank of Lance Corporal, be selected by their battalion to join the scout-sniper platoon, and complete an approved scout-sniper course in order to receive this designation.
context_section_description: The Marine Scout Sniper Course qualifies students as Marine Corps Scout Snipers. The graduation rate in 2017 was 44 percent.  There are currently three different school houses in the Marine Corps that offer the Scout Sniper Course.
  School of Infantry (West), Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California
  Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
  Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia
  In 2009, a major change in curriculum occurred with the Scout Sniper Basic Course and it was shortened from the traditional 10-week course to an 8​¹⁄₂ week course. This was done concurrently with the removal of the Advanced Course and the addition of the Team Leader Course of four weeks. This reduction of 1​¹⁄₂ weeks is because of the removal of the course's mission planning phase and the addition of this curriculum to the Team Leader Course. Missions are still conducted during the course's last week, but are now not a major part of curriculum.
  In 2010, a new curriculum was introduced, with shooting as the course's primary focus and stalking a secondary focus. The new course is now 12​¹⁄₂ weeks long. With elimination of the advanced course, Scout Sniper Basic Course was re-designated as the "Scout Sniper Course". There are nine straight weeks of shooting qualifications, before the majority of field training.
caption: U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper Course-East (SSC-East) logo
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