US Army sniper school students recently went through the "ghillie wash" and the photos are wild. The event puts sniper students through their paces and their ghillie suits to the test. A clean ...

An Army sniper wearing the current Flame Resistant Ghillie System is pictured. The new Improved Ghillie System looks to enhance the snipers' lethality and survivability while being simpler and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Students at the US Army Sniper Course at Fort Benning learn essential skills in marksmanship and fieldcraft, including how to make a ghillie suit. Ghillie suits are ...

Sniper-qualified Soldiers from across the Army gathered from Nov. 5 through Nov. 8 to conduct the visual testing portion of the bench-top evaluation for the Improved Ghillie System, or IGS.

Four of the battalion's hopefuls participated in a ghillie suit wash; the practice of distressing their suits with dirt, brush, mud and water. Staff Sgt. Gary Rojas, the sniper section ...