Oh-Three-Seventeen

0317 is the United States Marine Corps designation for Scout Snipers, Marines highly trained in fieldcraft and marksmanship in order to provide long range precision fire on select targets. The fight around Combat Outpost Javelin continues to rage and has only intensified. Sergeant Anthony Moore and his platoon of Scout Snipers have been called in to put the Taliban in their crosshairs but combat won't be the only thing Moore faces under the Afghan sun. Christopher Bast is a combat veteran of the United States Marine Corps having served as an 0311 Rifleman and Scout for the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion out of Camp Pendleton, California. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2010, then again in 2011-12. He would leave the Marine Corps in 2013 with an honorable discharge at the rank of Corporal.