10-13-2011, 05:59 AM
YutYut Wrote:thats one video.Yes. By chance, it was the first video shown in the search. Since it was good, I didn't bother looking at others. But, I'm confident that a similar scene could be found in other urban combat videos, if one cared to spend the time viewing all of them.
I can tell you, though, that I used to have a US Army photo of several soldiers lined up, ready to assault into an Iraqi building. And just like the scene in the Fallujah video, there was an M249 gunner there in the middle of the entry team.
Quote:When i went through MOUT training at mct it was always prefered to send in the A4's and M4's.Uh huh. And as the video shows, what is taught in training ain't necessarily how it's done on the battlefield.
As an example, thirty or so years ago a San Diego cop was shot and killed while on duty late one night. His body was found sitting in his patrol car, in the middle of an isolated parking lot. At the time, a young woman I knew was undergoing training at the police academy. I mentioned to her that it looked to me as if he had pulled up driver's door to driver's door with another police car, and the murder may have been done by a fellow officer.
Her reaction was, "Oh, no. That couldn't possibly happen. We are taught to never pull up to another vehicle that way, not even if it's another police car."
Well, it turned out that it did happen in precisely that manner.
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"Train as you fight, fight as you train" sounds good, but it doesn't always work that way in reality.