I had earlier point out that the progressives weren't giving up without a fight. Their hard-fought victory over the military establishment and the consequent loss of it, even if partial, cuts deeply. They have so weakened the edifice that it is crumbling. The department cannot meet recruitment goals, needs warfighters for the national defense and cannot find them, wastes increasingly precious dollars on failed programs, and celebrates transgenders and LGBTQ. This crumbling of the edifice meets…… [read more]
Go read his comments on the engagement. I sent this video to my former Marine, Daniel, who had this to say.
… if you have a team stopping behind a doorway for cover to shoot that creates a bottle neck, that’s what body armor is for. Go in clearing the room with the bulk of your armor between you and the guy shooting at you and don’t stop moving, that way more guys filter in behind you clearing areas.
Everyone in the team has a very specific area in the room they cover. You practice over and over again until it’s smooth and fast. Did you see how long it took for that guy to actually start engaging the fighter? By the time he started shooting from behind cover three guys could have filtered into … putting rounds in his chest.
The idea that a single individual in a team will clear the entire room is dumb. So that basically means a team of 4 guys will clear the room 4 times. That’s what they need to do is clear an area and then more importantly keep that area covered and controlled. So let’s say I am first in the door. Everyone has to clear their front, but first guy always cleared left after the front is clear.
You clear your front by basically moving into the room – it is cleared by default. So once the left is clear you keep side stepping left into the corner as you clear from left to right … the next guy is literally right on your ass behind you clearing his front by default and then immediately to his right. Doing the same thing, side stepping to the right …
The next guy is going straight in forward. You do it damn fast. This way you can get a entire fire team in a single room … I don’t know about you but 4 rifles is a lot better than one.
To which I replied this.
Okay, so in summary (a) they didn’t follow a protocol, (b) they didn’t act as a team, and (c) they didn’t go fast enough. But what if your family is in the structure, somewhere, you don’t know where, and there is a threat in the structure too, somewhere, you don’t know where, and you’re totally alone without a team?
Daniel.
Then you are forced to clear the whole house systematically room by room following a structured room clearing procedure and being consistent with it. Sometimes I had too [in Fallujah] because we were too spread out in different houses. So you practice. Main thing is If you can’t do it perfectly going at slow speeds, then how the hell are you going to do it fast? What I always told my Marines. Even the hardcore team guys would practice the fundamentals at very slow and systematic speeds to fine tune.
Offered up for your edification. He did it many, many times in Fallujah and lives to tell about it.
