I went to high school with a guy who ended up having a son my sons age. They were on the same baseball team in park ball a couple of times. The kids was one of the worst players I've ever seen. So, the dad claimed that he has been in the marines after high school and said that he was a sniper. He claimed, even to his family, that he still "worked for the government" in some capacity. He also claimed to be a sniper for several police departments, even though he job was a salesman for Mayer Electric. I never bought any of it. The story really fell apart when he ask another dad to help him change the stock on a rifle because he didn't know how. While helping him, the other dad ask him some questions about how his scope was sighted in and he has no idea what he was being ask. But, he had all kinds of cool "sniper" tools and outfits.