U.S. Army Sniper Record

SGT Nick Ranstad, U.S. Army, sets
U.S. Military Long Range Record
{a distance of 1.3 mile}
on January 2nd, 2008
in Afghanistan

Latest update: 03/13/2013

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What Can I Do.............

White House

"Nick and his spotter, SGT Alex Simpson, at the White House. VP Biden met Alex during a visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital and extended a personal invite after being informed that Alex was part of the sniper team that set the American record. Two weeks after returning to his home base in Germany from his 2nd tour in Afghanistan, Alex suffered a spinal cord injury while snowboarding in the Austrian Alps and is now paralyzed from the waist down. BUT, you'd never know it by his attitude ... he describes himself as "Mr Awesome". *lol*"

Nick's segment from the
NatGeo "Snipers, Inc" (25.3 MB)

Radio Free ARFCOM:
The Shot - 02/01/2010 (17.7 MB)
Bataan March - 03/29/2010 (16 MB)

Warrior Challenge 2012
Avon by the Sea, New Jersey.

Nick was an honored guest and autographed nearly 300 of Team Ranstad flyers at the event where civilian participants take part in a physical fitness type "basic boot camp" .

Funds raised are used to support the families of fallen Special Forces. They raised $25,000 this year.

Team Ranstad - Warrior Challenge Flier (PDF)

Germany - JTAC Exercise

Bill OReilly - Afghanistan

Nick waited in line for two hours to get this picture and an autographed photo. The autograph by Bill reads: "Bruce - a true patriot". Nick had Bill sign it for his Dad.