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.
=c=
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