09-04-2011, 09:08 AM
The guy supervising that particular team drill has over 22 years of experience in Special Operations units, to include being directly involved in the Battle of Mogadishu on Oct 3-4th, 1993, 5 years of deployments to Iraq as a key leader of one of the world's premier CT units, and who knows what other exploits that will never be known outside a certain realm. He has participated in numerous real-world firefights involving two-way small arms fire, and has many lessons to share about what works, and what doesn't. Basically, after reviewing different staples of light infantry practices and doctrine, the unit he was with realized that much of what is taught gets people killed quick, and was conceptualized by peacetime soldiers with little to no combat experience. Some examples that directly relate to the comments...
Win the race to get effective rounds on target, not to find cover (hide)...especially when no cover exists.
While cover may not be available, continue to use concealment of movement and your position whenever possible.
As far as ear pro goes, Peltors/electronic ear pro with enhanced hearing features and noise gates are standard kit for SF and CT units with short-duration or vehicle-borne mission profiles, and have been so for a long time. Your ability to communicate is preserved and improved with Peltors and integrated comms routing, as those models have, so you can have your individual radio wired into the headset, along with the boom mic if you want. Integrated comms/hearing pro is something that most conventional units lack, and soldiers' hearing suffers from it greatly. I have tinnitus and significant hearing loss really bad as a result of this, and it sucks when you can't even hear your watch alarm beeping, while someone across the room from you is asking where the noise is coming from.
Units that conduct practical shoot training have been winning gunfights against numerically-superior forces for a long time, especially when dealing with foreign soldiers or insurgents who have limited marksmanship experience. The drill in the video is a more advanced immediate action drill template from which small units can develop their marksmanship, movement, and communication procedures. The gentleman conducting this particular training shoots like a raped ape, and doesn't miss. I have had the pleasure of shooting and competing with him, and he is really a phenomenal shooter to watch, with loads of helpful techniques and insight that even seasoned marksmen can learn greatly from. Cases in point...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGPEgRZwIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCpOt9xV...ure=relmfu
The rationale for continuing to engage targets that are still standing is to establish the habit of shooting until the threat is down, versus the "double-tap syndrome". Once you have displaced to a new position, anything standing still gets saturated with accurate fire until it's down. As the targets didn't have reactive features in the Street Fighter Video, they were still engaged until verbal agreement and commo was passed that they were down. This is common with units that shoot that often. Within the CT units in the US, an average day involves at least 350-500 rounds downrange per individual weapon, to include sidearm and carbine. High volume schedules are also maintained with grenade launchers, belt-fed weapons, anti-armor weapons, and anything in the inventory really. One serviceman in those types of units will put more rounds through target with just his sidearm in a week than an entire Infantry Platoon will in a month with all their weapons, if the Infantry Platoon even goes to the range that month.
These types of units have heard and asked more what-ifs than all the internet forum threads combined, since this is their profession around-the-clock. That drill was fairly simple, compared to some of the ones involving coordinated vehicle movement with forced dismount and shooting, while at night. Ensuring that you're aware of who your friendly forces are while in the heat of a close-in fight is best built upon from basics, and actual footage of real-world encounters would be difficult to distinguish by even experienced operators, without continual replays and synchronized audio, with commentary by one of the participants.
Win the race to get effective rounds on target, not to find cover (hide)...especially when no cover exists.
While cover may not be available, continue to use concealment of movement and your position whenever possible.
As far as ear pro goes, Peltors/electronic ear pro with enhanced hearing features and noise gates are standard kit for SF and CT units with short-duration or vehicle-borne mission profiles, and have been so for a long time. Your ability to communicate is preserved and improved with Peltors and integrated comms routing, as those models have, so you can have your individual radio wired into the headset, along with the boom mic if you want. Integrated comms/hearing pro is something that most conventional units lack, and soldiers' hearing suffers from it greatly. I have tinnitus and significant hearing loss really bad as a result of this, and it sucks when you can't even hear your watch alarm beeping, while someone across the room from you is asking where the noise is coming from.
Units that conduct practical shoot training have been winning gunfights against numerically-superior forces for a long time, especially when dealing with foreign soldiers or insurgents who have limited marksmanship experience. The drill in the video is a more advanced immediate action drill template from which small units can develop their marksmanship, movement, and communication procedures. The gentleman conducting this particular training shoots like a raped ape, and doesn't miss. I have had the pleasure of shooting and competing with him, and he is really a phenomenal shooter to watch, with loads of helpful techniques and insight that even seasoned marksmen can learn greatly from. Cases in point...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGPEgRZwIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCpOt9xV...ure=relmfu
The rationale for continuing to engage targets that are still standing is to establish the habit of shooting until the threat is down, versus the "double-tap syndrome". Once you have displaced to a new position, anything standing still gets saturated with accurate fire until it's down. As the targets didn't have reactive features in the Street Fighter Video, they were still engaged until verbal agreement and commo was passed that they were down. This is common with units that shoot that often. Within the CT units in the US, an average day involves at least 350-500 rounds downrange per individual weapon, to include sidearm and carbine. High volume schedules are also maintained with grenade launchers, belt-fed weapons, anti-armor weapons, and anything in the inventory really. One serviceman in those types of units will put more rounds through target with just his sidearm in a week than an entire Infantry Platoon will in a month with all their weapons, if the Infantry Platoon even goes to the range that month.
These types of units have heard and asked more what-ifs than all the internet forum threads combined, since this is their profession around-the-clock. That drill was fairly simple, compared to some of the ones involving coordinated vehicle movement with forced dismount and shooting, while at night. Ensuring that you're aware of who your friendly forces are while in the heat of a close-in fight is best built upon from basics, and actual footage of real-world encounters would be difficult to distinguish by even experienced operators, without continual replays and synchronized audio, with commentary by one of the participants.