The Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation (MSSHF) was founded by the leadership of the USMC Scout Sniper Association (SSA). Since SSA’s leadership is an all-volunteer group of men with day jobs, they determined very quickly that they simply wouldn’t have the ‘bandwidth’ to run the day-to- day operations of the Association while simultaneously trying to create a Scout Sniper War Memorial. In addition, the research eMort that supports the memorial has also been prohibitively labor intensive. In order to take those tasks oM the SSA’s plate, the Marine Scout Sniper Heritage Foundation was born in May, 2023.