On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Charles Bennett wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Matt Johnston wrote: > >> >> On 16 Dec 2008, at 16:45, Charles Bennett wrote: >> >>> >>> On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Jared Earle wrote: >>> >>>> On 16 Dec 2008, at 16:14, Charles Bennett wrote: >>>>> Some people would crap themselves and hit the deck because of a >>>>> mere >>>>> shoe being thrown at them but that is because >>>>> sheep have two speeds. Feed and Stampede, and they would go to >>>>> stampede mode at the first sign of trouble. >>>> >>>> >>>> I was under the impression that soldiers had to be trained to hit >>>> the deck as the natural reaction is to meercat. >>> >>> >>> For a mortar attack perhaps, not an ambush. >>> >>> We train our soldiers to charge directly into the direction of fire. >> >> The British Army still used DDOSF when coming under any enemy fire >> IIRC. I learned it back in the early 90s. >> >> "Dash, Dive, Dodge, Observe, Sights, Fire" >> >> Seems New Zealand still teach it. >> >> > > I didn't want to go into the whole thing. > > If you are a dismounted recon unit, you almost always try to break > contact, usually the way you came. > Likely the drills that most infantry do and are trained. > > If you are in a convoy you try to drive through. > > If you are a patrol looking for the enemy, then your first reaction > should be to wheel into the ambush and try and over-run their > position. Nothing worse for a bad guy than to discover a bunch of > humvee's with mounted .50 cals BEHIND them and/or on their flanks. > > The important part is to have an immediate action plan that everyone > knows in advance. > > I was mostly recon. We practiced something called the "Australian > Peel" to break contact and get the heck out of there. > Then again, we only wanted contact on our own terms and initiated by > us.
Anybody who could duck the Vietnam war can certainly duck a couple of shoes. -- Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list! _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
