This is a stupid article with only a few tidbits worth reading.
Alway wear your armour and helmet and keep your assualt rifle (wtf?!?) with you at all times. Take cover behind something solid if you are being shot at.
Really? Someone actually wrote that?
What military unit other than the Romanians uses unarmored vehicles when travelling in Indian country. Also, what happens to the rest of your convoy when they can't see a damn thing because you dropped smoke or tear gas? On top of that, why you would drop a frag grenade outside of your vehicle is beyond me. I guess you should practice changing tires, you'll be lucky if that's all you need to do. Incidently, what is your gunner doing? If bad guys are within grenade range, you're already way, way behind in winning this fight.
When going from destination to destination, never take highly travelled MSR's (that are cleared and secured by Route Clearance and other designated units? Obviously, it's METT-TC but please explain how it's better to travel a slower and probably IED'd route? All of your movements are being watched and tracked, so go ahead and kill your men by driving straight into a complex ambush. It's cool, nobody cares anyway.
Newflash: you can drive through a simple ambush, but it's very difficult to drive through an ambush that's initiated with an IED and kills one of your vics. That's when you are going to need assistance and you're going to get it far less quickly on an alternate route than if you are on an MSR.
The author is right in that you must kill the enemy. Period. Otherwise, he's back out on the street in a week or two.
Additionally, it is absolutely IMPERATIVE that you work on your marksmanship past 500m. In AFG, they have become very adept at engaging dismounts past effective M4 range. Because Americans are lazy, it has to be said (where it should be obvious) to bring as heavy of weapons as is possible. I know guys who have been involved in a gunfight where 3-5bad guys essentially pinned down a whole company of Americans and a company of ANA, simply because the bad guys were shooting from over 1,000m away and neither of the friendly units brought enough heavy weapons.
The author raises a few valid points, but this article sounds like it is written by someone who heard a couple war stories over some beers, decided to put in his own opinion (that works great with airsoft) and decided to try and make a buck or two by writing a public service announcement.
"In combat you won't rise to the occasion, you'll sink to your level of training."
Also...
"Train the way you fight."
Whatever you train to do, is (almost exactly) what you're going to, and probably not even realize you did it. If you haven't trained to do something, then you are not going to do it.
Drill. Drill. Drill. Drill. Drill. And then Drill some more!
Drill magazine changes. Drill dry-firing. Drill unholstering your secondary weapon. Drill transitioning to your secondary weapon. Drill transitioning back to your primary weapon. Drill in different positions: Drill behind your couch. Drill while kneeling. Drill while laying on your back and learn where your feet are in relation to your muzzle. Drill in the prone position. Drill fixing every malfunction you can think of in every conceivable position. Drill double feeds. Drill short shucking a shotgun. Drill not seating your magazine fully.
Then do it all over again.
Find a friend, and have them yell as loudly as they can in your face while drilling. Buy a "Sound Horn" and have them blast that in your face while drilling/shooting. Buy some firecrackers and set them off while drilling to simulate the sound of returning gunfire.
Do all of that while running and moving around with all your gear you want to carry, and find out what you absolutely do not need to carry, and then dump those items.
Get your heart-rate pumping up into the triple-digits, and get your blood pressure up as well.
Then do that all over again.
Drill as if your life depended on it.
Non-combat drills:
If you have children, unplug/disable your phone, and have them practice dialing 9-1-1. Do this A Lot!
If they need to call 9-1-1, and if they have to say "We need an ambulance at [your address -- make sure your kids know it.]" they'll be able to when the time comes.
Do the same thing with your wife/husband. Mock-dial 9-1-1 over and over again, if you use a cellphone don't forget to also hit "SEND" as well.
Have surprise drills for this. If your husband is busy on the computer, or watching TV, have a drill. If your wife is busy, have a drill. Say to your spouse: "If you had to call 9-1-1 right now, what would you do?" Make them realize where the phone is from their current location, and how they'd get to it.
The same thing goes for a First-Aid classes. If there's one in your area, Take it!
When we were working on our dummy for CPR training, one of us would randomly selected to play the role of "The Panicking Parent" by getting in the face of the person doing the CPR, and yelling, and screaming things like "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!?! YOU ASSHOLE SAVE HIM!! HELP US!!
The person doing the CPR would have to ignore them entirely and do the task at hand, and "zone them out", and we'd also have to point at another person standing around waiting for their turn (playing the role of the person who is just standing around doing nothing.) and tell them firmly: "You! Call 9-1-1, and request an ambulance to this location." and then get back to CPR/applying First-Aid.
We'd also have dummy cell-phones and be able to push 9-1-1 in those tests.
The book "On Combat" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman should be required reading.
Tell me where I'm wrong as it relates to my comment on the article?
There was no author cited within that article, and if there were, I would have mentioned them by name. I get you are trying to defend your associate (friend, whatever) I am trying to let people know that article wasn't exactly great advice. Or at least, much of it wasn't. I stand by my analysis.
As far as what is "obvious," and "common courtesy,"... you don't have a clue about me or what I think. Pick apart my assessment, fine. Attack me...petty and childish.
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This is a stupid article with only a few tidbits worth reading.
Alway wear your armour and helmet and keep your assualt rifle (wtf?!?) with you at all times. Take cover behind something solid if you are being shot at.
Really? Someone actually wrote that?
What military unit other than the Romanians uses unarmored vehicles when travelling in Indian country. Also, what happens to the rest of your convoy when they can't see a damn thing because you dropped smoke or tear gas? On top of that, why you would drop a frag grenade outside of your vehicle is beyond me. I guess you should practice changing tires, you'll be lucky if that's all you need to do. Incidently, what is your gunner doing? If bad guys are within grenade range, you're already way, way behind in winning this fight.
When going from destination to destination, never take highly travelled MSR's (that are cleared and secured by Route Clearance and other designated units? Obviously, it's METT-TC but please explain how it's better to travel a slower and probably IED'd route? All of your movements are being watched and tracked, so go ahead and kill your men by driving straight into a complex ambush. It's cool, nobody cares anyway.
Newflash: you can drive through a simple ambush, but it's very difficult to drive through an ambush that's initiated with an IED and kills one of your vics. That's when you are going to need assistance and you're going to get it far less quickly on an alternate route than if you are on an MSR.
The author is right in that you must kill the enemy. Period. Otherwise, he's back out on the street in a week or two.
Additionally, it is absolutely IMPERATIVE that you work on your marksmanship past 500m. In AFG, they have become very adept at engaging dismounts past effective M4 range. Because Americans are lazy, it has to be said (where it should be obvious) to bring as heavy of weapons as is possible. I know guys who have been involved in a gunfight where 3-5bad guys essentially pinned down a whole company of Americans and a company of ANA, simply because the bad guys were shooting from over 1,000m away and neither of the friendly units brought enough heavy weapons.
The author raises a few valid points, but this article sounds like it is written by someone who heard a couple war stories over some beers, decided to put in his own opinion (that works great with airsoft) and decided to try and make a buck or two by writing a public service announcement.
Repetitio est mater studiorum.
"In combat you won't rise to the occasion, you'll sink to your level of training."
Also...
"Train the way you fight."
Whatever you train to do, is (almost exactly) what you're going to, and probably not even realize you did it. If you haven't trained to do something, then you are not going to do it.
Drill. Drill. Drill. Drill. Drill. And then Drill some more!
Drill magazine changes. Drill dry-firing. Drill unholstering your secondary weapon. Drill transitioning to your secondary weapon. Drill transitioning back to your primary weapon. Drill in different positions: Drill behind your couch. Drill while kneeling. Drill while laying on your back and learn where your feet are in relation to your muzzle. Drill in the prone position. Drill fixing every malfunction you can think of in every conceivable position. Drill double feeds. Drill short shucking a shotgun. Drill not seating your magazine fully.
Then do it all over again.
Find a friend, and have them yell as loudly as they can in your face while drilling. Buy a "Sound Horn" and have them blast that in your face while drilling/shooting. Buy some firecrackers and set them off while drilling to simulate the sound of returning gunfire.
Do all of that while running and moving around with all your gear you want to carry, and find out what you absolutely do not need to carry, and then dump those items.
Get your heart-rate pumping up into the triple-digits, and get your blood pressure up as well.
Then do that all over again.
Drill as if your life depended on it.
Non-combat drills:
If you have children, unplug/disable your phone, and have them practice dialing 9-1-1. Do this A Lot!
If they need to call 9-1-1, and if they have to say "We need an ambulance at [your address -- make sure your kids know it.]" they'll be able to when the time comes.
Do the same thing with your wife/husband. Mock-dial 9-1-1 over and over again, if you use a cellphone don't forget to also hit "SEND" as well.
Have surprise drills for this. If your husband is busy on the computer, or watching TV, have a drill. If your wife is busy, have a drill. Say to your spouse: "If you had to call 9-1-1 right now, what would you do?" Make them realize where the phone is from their current location, and how they'd get to it.
The same thing goes for a First-Aid classes. If there's one in your area, Take it!
When we were working on our dummy for CPR training, one of us would randomly selected to play the role of "The Panicking Parent" by getting in the face of the person doing the CPR, and yelling, and screaming things like "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!?! YOU ASSHOLE SAVE HIM!! HELP US!!
The person doing the CPR would have to ignore them entirely and do the task at hand, and "zone them out", and we'd also have to point at another person standing around waiting for their turn (playing the role of the person who is just standing around doing nothing.) and tell them firmly: "You! Call 9-1-1, and request an ambulance to this location." and then get back to CPR/applying First-Aid.
We'd also have dummy cell-phones and be able to push 9-1-1 in those tests.
The book "On Combat" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman should be required reading.
If you aren't prepared to survive combat, I'd advise keeping away from LEOs and three letter agents...
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/police-state-review-2013/
"Really? Someone actually wrote that?"
ahhahahaha Sh^T you almost made me uh pee up my skivvies.
Tell me where I'm wrong as it relates to my comment on the article?
There was no author cited within that article, and if there were, I would have mentioned them by name. I get you are trying to defend your associate (friend, whatever) I am trying to let people know that article wasn't exactly great advice. Or at least, much of it wasn't. I stand by my analysis.
As far as what is "obvious," and "common courtesy,"... you don't have a clue about me or what I think. Pick apart my assessment, fine. Attack me...petty and childish.
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