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If they are talking about snipers you aren't talking about normal grunts and most likely these are also being rolled out for the spec op units for things such as the ability to display a real time UAV feed.
So yeah these guys know what they are doing and I'd trust them in a war zone with a piece of electronics over the average person walking down the street.
With terrorism you can blame someone and create an us vs them mentality. With cancer I don't think we are going to see the politician openly come out and blame God.