 On a hilltop, overlooking the green zone and sang in Afghanistan, a surveillance target acquisition team, also known as STAY, moves into position to scan a known hotspot for Taliban activity. Over there you see the open, the open between the tree line, that's what they usually have, meetings that move from that area down south, you watch for that area down there. Their targets are two men who were spotted shooting at Marines the day before. Basically we were watching this hotspot, we've gotten a lot of reporting from historical firing points, so we wanted to go take a gander at the area, see what's going on. About two and a half hours we spotted both the individuals, one was heading south, one was heading west. I didn't have observation on the southern man, so I kept my focus to the north. He came out once, disappeared into a compound, came out again, went into the corn, came back down a trail, was looking up, kind of turkey peeking, started walking back towards the corn and that's when I engaged him. He went down the first shot. Statistics show that about every Taliban a sniper takes down, saves about three Marines lives, so that's really at the end of the day, that's what our job is all about, it's saving Marines lives and it's something I take very seriously.