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jmackenzie_15
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Fibua, Obua, Southbound Trooper 5:
Would anyone with any, or alot of experience in the areas of urban combat, particularly fighting inside houses, like to offer their opinion on a scale of 1-10 on how suicidal the kind of tactics being taught to us today are?
I get a bit frustrated when troops go through a doorway and the first 2 or 3 get capped immediately before anyone can even identify where the shots came from.In reality, how hard would this be to do, you can hear them coming, aim at the doorway (you may want to put a mag through the door out in the hall right away just to be safe) and just let loose on auto as soon as the door even opens a peep.Not like its a hard target, hitting a man standing in a doorframe from a few meters way is almost impossible to miss,even for terribly trained insurgents who have hardly fired any weapons in their lives.
Whats even worse is when the instructors yell at the troops to "pass communication" on the enemy locations, and to do "do their drills properly" , when they fail to see that there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO at this level of the fighting , about whether or not you get shot coming through a doorway, or be able to tell the guy behind you where the enemy is in a fraction of a second and have it be passed all the way back to command before another guy or two is shot up.
The problem is at the level of whoever came up with these tactics, because they seem to really be far more suited towards a surgical extraction or arrest of someone by lets say a SWAT team.... not fighting a house full of well armed and fanatical fighters.We havnt even really touched on booby traps yet.
This is all in respect to the build up training to the southbound trooper 5 exercise in virginia in the coming weeks.Would anyone like to add something to this now that I am finished blowing off some steam?
Would anyone with any, or alot of experience in the areas of urban combat, particularly fighting inside houses, like to offer their opinion on a scale of 1-10 on how suicidal the kind of tactics being taught to us today are?
I get a bit frustrated when troops go through a doorway and the first 2 or 3 get capped immediately before anyone can even identify where the shots came from.In reality, how hard would this be to do, you can hear them coming, aim at the doorway (you may want to put a mag through the door out in the hall right away just to be safe) and just let loose on auto as soon as the door even opens a peep.Not like its a hard target, hitting a man standing in a doorframe from a few meters way is almost impossible to miss,even for terribly trained insurgents who have hardly fired any weapons in their lives.
Whats even worse is when the instructors yell at the troops to "pass communication" on the enemy locations, and to do "do their drills properly" , when they fail to see that there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO at this level of the fighting , about whether or not you get shot coming through a doorway, or be able to tell the guy behind you where the enemy is in a fraction of a second and have it be passed all the way back to command before another guy or two is shot up.
The problem is at the level of whoever came up with these tactics, because they seem to really be far more suited towards a surgical extraction or arrest of someone by lets say a SWAT team.... not fighting a house full of well armed and fanatical fighters.We havnt even really touched on booby traps yet.
This is all in respect to the build up training to the southbound trooper 5 exercise in virginia in the coming weeks.Would anyone like to add something to this now that I am finished blowing off some steam?