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Well, I'm not an infantry soldier, but in my line of work if you close with an aware enemy to engage in "hand-to-hand" combat, you've screwed up. Is there ever a time in ground combat, where a bayonet charge is the best option? We have the technology and means to kill people at range. What we don't have, is the political strength to use all the weapons at our disposal to do it.

. Is there ever a time in ground combat, where a bayonet charge is the best option?

No,but there are times when it is the ONLY option. I know a man (Ola Mize) who won a MOH during the Korean War for attacking a Chinese force with a entrenching tool,killing several and chasing the rest off the top of the hill. He had fought them all night,moving from one position to another to fire machine guns at the enemy and tend to the wounded lying there. Even though he was wounded,he was the only man in his company still mobile. When he finally ran out of ammo just before dawn,he decided to go ahead and surrender rather than try to escape. He was going to do this because he could possibly help the wounded as a POW. When the Chinese started sticking bayonets into the wounded soldiers he had spent all night patching up and protecting,he went nuts and grabbed a entrenching tool and went after them.

Well, I'm not an infantry soldier, but in my line of work if you close with an aware enemy to engage in "hand-to-hand" combat, you've screwed up

Spoken like a true air-force or navy techno-puke. Unless you have been and done, in real combat, not the video-game crap that you seem to love, keep your opinions to yourself. Your reliance on weapons that provide distance as a measure of protection are usurped by the need for "eyes on" intelligence gathering and assessment. But wait, there is technology for that too sin't there??? Get real bucko... I can't wait to see you in any form of combat, you will be easy to find, what with the big stain on your trousers...

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