Noob: “So, what do you do when you think you’ve been ambushed?”
Good question. Valid, too. A new member of the team/patrol should be taught effective immediate action drills for this, as well as other common situations encountered in a SHTF situation. Let’s check out the conversation for a moment:
Older, more experienced teacher: “Well, the way we did it back in the day was to have everyone in the kill zone immediately assault the ambush position screaming and yelling and shooting. They told us that’d give us the best chance at survival.”
Noob: “How did you know it was an ambush and not a perimeter or something?”
Older, more experienced teacher: “Son, when all hell breaks loose without warning, and the shooting is coming from one side, it’s an ambush!”
Noob: “So did it work?”
Older, more experienced teacher: “In training it did.”
Noob: “Oh….”
Unfortunately, in many AO’s today, a common assumption of indigenous teams participating in counter-ambush immediate action drills (IAD), and was previously standard doctrine of all US forces prior to the adoption of MW, is anytime a team/patrol is engaged without warning they are in an ambush and have only one of two options for survival:
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Ok you were trained combat infantry, That actually fought . What did you think of this?---Ray
ReplyDeleteNope, but I'm gonna get cover immediately and then decide what to do. Even Mad Dog didn't charge until there appeared no other option.
Delete"No one else could engage the machinegun that trapped Shriver's men -- it was up to Mad Dog. Skittish Yards looked to Shriver and his half-grin restored a sense of confidence. Then they were on their feet, charging -- Shriver was his old self, running to the sound of guns, a True Believer Yard on either side, all of them dashing through the flying bullets, into the treeline, into the very guts of Mad Dog's great nemesis, COSVN. And Mad Dog Shriver was never seen again."
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