Posted on 04/18/2013 10:05:07 PM PDT by bd476
911 Operator @911BUFF 1m
BOSTON: BREAKING NEWS - 'MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS, GRENADES AND SHOTS FIRED' REPORTED ON POLICE SCANNER! MULTIPLE OFFICERS DOWN! #911BUFF
Matthew Keys @TheMatthewKeys 45s
WCVB: Gunfire, explosions reported in Watertown neighborhood of Boston - http://bit.ly/11jwbKG
Three block perimeter to be established around 98 Spruce in Watertown, Mass
Or would they send in a small team of plain-clothes operatives to blend in with the public, follow the evidence, corner the guy, and either capture him or take him out with a quiet head shot in a dark alley?
And if it were deemed necessary to involve the public, would they not tell citizens to arm themselves and secure their own blocks and neighborhoods with their own guns, rather than committing half the Israeli army to do it?
Oh, I forgot - the well-regulated Massachusetts Militia seems to be missing in action...
When you’re about to kick in a door, the unit/squad lines up single-file just before the door gets opened.
It’s called a “stack”. We had to train this way prior to deployment. The idea is to burst through the door rapidly and dominate the space beyond it, overpowering resistance with speed and firepower.
Now that’s how it’s done in the Big Green Suit. You don’t “stack” until you’re about to kick the door. You move tactically, spread out so as to minimize casualties.
These are not soldiers. These are civilian police with tacticool gear and marginal training.
The blaze covered this all morning long with great detail. You’re watching the wrong news network.
It sounds like the police are sharing too much on the radio.
2man initiates (bumps, pats, squeezes, yells whatever), or the breecher breeches, 1man enters and everyone floods in clearing out of the way of "the fatal funnel"....ie the doorway where all the enemy fire is going to be concentrated on.
Now, so far as the maneuvers through the door plane......I leave that for perp#2 to find out on his own.
The idea is to get as much whoopass into the room as quickly as possible while clearing the fatal funnel. This is to clear the corners so your 1man doesn't get shot from the side. The defender is on home turf in a room and the odds (if he's trained) are in his favor. En masse is the only way to do it.
“Let me add my question to yours: Why do all these police types all group closely together? Seems that would make them easy to hit. Aren’t soldiers taught to spread themselves out”
You ever been fishing? Why do the baitfish all mass together when they feel danger? Cause they have a better chance individually in a large, massed group than they do by themselves. Also, they get to discuss and admire their latest tacti-cool gear and weapons....
Scanner: Bolo canceled on newspaper van Odyssey.
Ah, you and I both realize that.
The average American Idol EBT-card college brat won’t.
Get with the program! There are no terrorists anymore since Obama's first inauguration! Everyone loves us now thanks to his flawless leadership! /s
Or a celebrity...
Saw that.
And the Chechen president insists that America caused the chechen terrorists to act like terrorists.
Dang page wouldn’t load. You beat me.
Smaller carbon footprint.
Global warming caused all this, ya know.
Boy’s just ecologically conscious.
/s
That’s a thought-provoking post, and I will be giving some serious thought to your perspective.
I don’t give a you know what, unless it is another opportunity to show how shallow and dangerous Kerry is and has been for America.
Hey, same info, just better words than I used.
Man, she sounds like a dude.
I don’t think they are supposed to have them on all the time, just flash them to check dark spots or blind suspects.
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