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There’s nothing random about Debbie; she’s a dedicated and
hardworking woman, as devoted to her cause as Marc was to his.
Before he died, Marc wrote an incredible letter home. Available at
the site, it told a moving story about some of the things he saw in
Iraq—a terrible hospital, ignorant and despicable people. But it was
also an extremely positive letter, full of hope and encouraging all of us
to do some small part for others.
To my mind, though, whatever he wrote home doesn’t adequately
describe the Marc we all knew. There was a lot more to him. He was a
real tough guy with a great sense of humor. He was a gung-ho warrior
and a great friend. He had unshakable faith in God and loved his wife
with might. Heaven is surely a better place because he’s there, but
earth has lost one of its best.
CRAFT
Deciding to leave the Navy was hard enough. But now I was going to
be out of a job. It was time to figure out what to do with the rest of my
life.
I had a number of options and possibilities. I’d been talking with a
friend of mine named Mark Spicer about starting a sniper school in
the States. After twenty-five years in the British Army, Mark retired as
a sergeant major. He was one of the foremost snipers in their army,
and had served over twenty years as a sniper and sniper platoon commander.
Mark has written three books on sniping and is one of the
world’s leading experts on the subject.
We both realized there was and is a need for certain types of very
specific training for military and police units. No one was providing