Posted on 06/01/2017 11:36:10 AM PDT by w1n1
Hopefully, you will never have to experience or get into harms way as these men of the 101st Airborne did. But in every home/vehicle or active shooter defense scenario. If given a chance to foil an attack, you might want to do so in a similar fashion as these Airborne troopers.
But seriously for us private citizens just remember wherever you're at either at the mall or in your car. Get out of the area and run (or drive)as fast as you can to safety then call for help. See the footage here.
“That’ll teach ’em to shoot at my soldiers.”
That’s a good leader right there.
....never saw it coming....first one stunned him....just enough to have him stumbling around...round two...same track,same approach... Knock out!
The whole movie is worth watching.
The whole movie is worth watching.
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When I was in the infantry we were trained to drop to the ground in most cases of taking fire, then crawl for cover. Though for near ambush the correct response was to charge and fire back point blank.
There's advice from somebody not trained as a tank crewman.
Charging through ambush is basically the same for Light Infantry and Mechanized. I have done both. Going through a narrow kill zone mounted in Iraq was horrifying. The variables to death were much greater but our firepower was overwhelming. Speed was the key. Sitting on objectives and letting the enemy dictate was always dangerous.
Thank God you made it through. I never had occasion to apply my infantry training (which is fine by me)—except once in a minor way in a civilian capacity that called for a pressure bandage.
What about an L shaped ambush?
Blocked and unblocked ambushes require different responses. In an unblocked ambush the best percentage is drop and crawl out, returning fire as best you can once you reach cover and try to gain superiority. If mounted, return as much fire as you can and boogie past it.
In a blocked ambush your only play is to put it on rock’n’roll and charge, and try to overrun the bastards. Hope they don’t have claymores.
I had artillery training. Several times in my subsequent law enforcement career I thought it could be useful (a couple of memorable prison riots come to mind), but alas, we had no Bureau of Indirect Fire.
You come up with some good threads.
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L- shaped ambushes are set by those who know what they're doing, when the terrain allows. My Australian pals who had gone through the Malayan Jungle Training course taught me that the best possible response was to try to figure from the volume of fire which was the short leg, and then try to attack it as a linear target, rather than exposing yourself to the entire flanking fire from the longer leg.
Worst-case scenario: you find you are indeed rolling up a short leg, but find it's not L-shaped, but an X-shaped ambush, and you're about to receive it from two more short legs that have you in a crossfire. Happily, not all terrain will support an X-shaped ambush, and not all enemy formations have the personnel and crew-served weapons to make one brutally effective. Hope that's the case.
Let me know when you want us with the tanks.
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