From the memoirs of a Soviet sniper: once a mouse crawled under his clothes

The sniper is one of the most difficult military specialties. These professionals in their field must not only have specific skills that are mastered over the years, but also have inhuman endurance, as well as moral and psychological training.

Many ordinary people perceive a sniper as a shooter who can hit a target from any position. Meanwhile, they do not even imagine what such specialists sometimes have to do in order to get the opportunity to make that very cherished shot.

For example, often snipers spend hours, and sometimes days, waiting for their victim, disguising a position in close proximity to the enemy's location. Cold, heat, rain and sleet. All this has to be steadfastly endured by the fighter, while not betraying his position.

However, not always the enemies of the sniper are the soldiers of the opposing side or the aforementioned weather conditions. Sometimes the most real curiosities happen, which were told about by the Soviet sniper who destroyed the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

In his memoirs, the fighter described an incident that happened to him and his partner during one of the raids. When comrades-in-arms sat in ambush in close proximity to enemy positions, a field mouse crawled under the clothes of the partner of the author of the memoirs.

While the animal crawled along the back, the fighter endured, but when he got to the stomach and started biting, the sniper "surrendered". The Soviet soldier began to laugh loudly and roll on the ground.

Author stories thought that he had received a sunstroke, however, when he realized what was the matter, he also began to laugh.

Naturally, the Wehrmacht soldiers spotted the sniper pair and began to cover them with mortar fire. Fortunately, the comrades managed to survive and run to the positions of the Red Army.

Comments

[Wayfarer_2]

Strange people! He began to laugh loudly and roll on the ground, and the second one began to laugh. But it was enough to slap this mouse with the palm of your hand, and the whole thing was short-lived. They said something about the endurance of snipers, huh?

[Terenin]

From the memoirs of a Soviet sniper: once a mouse crawled under his clothes

An interesting saga about ... a mouse. I hope he grew up and to be continued.

[Leader_Barmaleev]

Strange commentators - just to slap a lip without delving into the essence of the problem. Try to lie in the sensory deprivation chamber for at least 12 hours - it very well simulates the psychophysiological state in which the sniper is, and then be surprised at your reactions to the simplest stimuli - they will show you the finger, and you will neigh like a horse, and then sob in three streams . But you've already made your judgment.

[Lynx2000]

Quote: Leader_Barmaleev

Strange commentators - just to slap a lip without delving into the essence of the problem. Try to lie in the sensory deprivation chamber for at least 12 hours - it very well simulates the psychophysiological state in which the sniper is, and then be surprised at your reactions to the simplest stimuli - they will show you the finger, and you will neigh like a horse, and then sob in three streams . But you've already made your judgment.

As I understand it, the sensory deprivation chamber deprives a person of sensory perceptions, there are no external stimuli (kinesthetics, audio-video)?
The sniper, on the contrary, has a constant effect on all organs (tactile, visual, auditory).
For a trained soldier, such as a scout, being a secret from several hours to a day, especially at night, causes fatigue, observation is carried out in shifts. When you are observing, not at the ready for a shot, it is possible to move, change the position of arms and legs (not to wave, of course), you can notice a mouse, a lizard, a snake, you can move / slam.
Rzhach from a mouse or from a finger in position, especially for a sniper - rather nervous hysterical laughter. I admit this option not in combat conditions, but rather after the threat of death has passed. But at the performance of the SBZ, the tension is such that there is no strength for laughter.
We had a case, an armored personnel carrier was preparing to leave, part of the group should be inside, part on the armor.
While we were seated, the side door / hatch was not closed, and one of our "Alyosha", sitting down from above, was fiddling at the upper open hatch, from where a grenade fell out of it, fell into our landing force. department. Grenade!!! As there were five of us, through the side door that was not yet closed from the left side, in armor, unloading, with machine guns flew out at the same time, they said not a second had passed. The grenade was without a fuse, no one fell on it with their own body, there were no heroes in the first week. But then there were .... But when everyone jumped out, the laughter was hysterical. Here is the reaction to the first fear, irritants, happy deliverance and their awkward position in such a situation.

[Wayfarer_2]

Apparently, spanking your lips is your specialty. I am not a sniper (although I shoot well), but hunting, in ambush, I had to sit and lie down for hours. Once a weasel ran up my boots, once a viper crawled up my boot. Mosquitoes ate. I didn't get hysterical, I didn't jump up, I didn't laugh or cry. In my view, a sniper is a person with a very stable psyche, such a self-possessed comrade. And smart. And I don’t understand why he didn’t think of just swatting the mouse, but instead behaved inappropriately. And it’s still unclear where so many rudeness and goon on Zen come from. Just a joy, or something, what, to be rude to people and pose as an infallible guru.

[AlexKruglov1976]

Well, at least the beaver didn’t climb ...
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[Pavel57]

I know a case when a diver climbed into a hard suit, they closed it, and he began to dance a jig in a multi-kilogram suit. I had to open. The reason for the fun was the mouse.