Topic: Surprise Attack Surprise

Team Infidel · January 8th, 2006

2005 Darwin Award Winner
Confirmed True by Darwin

(3 January 2005, St. Maurice, Switzerland) It was the first week of a weapons refresher course, and Swiss Army Grenadier Detachment 20/5 had just finished training with live ammunition. The shooting instructor ordered the soldiers to secure their weapons for a break.
The 24-year-old second lieutenant, in charge of this detachment, decided this would be a good time to demonstrate a knife attack on a soldier. Wielding his bayonet, he leaped toward one of his men, achieving complete surprise.
But earlier that week, the soldiers had been drilled to release the safety catch and ready their guns for firing in the shortest possible time. The surprised soldier, seeing his lieutenant leaping toward him with a knife, snapped off a shot to protect himself from the attack.
The lesson could not have been more successful: the soldier had saved himself and protected the rest of the detachment from a surprise attack. The lieutenant might have wished to commend his soldier on his quick action and accurate marksmanship. Unfortunately, he had been killed with one shot.
And this, kiddies, is why we don't play with knives or guns. Ever. Even if we are trained professionals, and especially if our target is a trained professional.

bulldogg · January 8th, 2006

Butterbar.

tomtom22 · January 9th, 2006

******* Butterbar.

Locke · January 11th, 2006

dumbass

good find TI

Spartacus · January 12th, 2006

WOW. Not quite what he was expecting I think.

03USMC · January 14th, 2006

And this is why we don't let butter bars play with knives.

Marinerhodes · January 15th, 2006

HAD to be a butter bar didn't it. I tell ya, some of em just don't know. Any bets that they put this in the Officer training regimen for the future?

Missileer · January 16th, 2006

To St. Peter, "but they said that was the way to do it in OCS."

Chief Bones · January 16th, 2006

Butter Bar - Butter Flar

A dumb **** is ALWAYS a dumb ****

and a dumb **** ALWAYS gets what he earns (period).

Mohmar Deathstrike · January 16th, 2006

What a retard.

January 8th, 2006	Post 1
Team Infidel Milforum's Postmaster Gear	Post; Surprise Attack Surprise 2005 Darwin Award Winner Confirmed True by Darwin (3 January 2005, St. Maurice, Switzerland) It was the first week of a weapons refresher course, and Swiss Army Grenadier Detachment 20/5 had just finished training with live ammunition. The shooting instructor ordered the soldiers to secure their weapons for a break. The 24-year-old second lieutenant, in charge of this detachment, decided this would be a good time to demonstrate a knife attack on a soldier. Wielding his bayonet, he leaped toward one of his men, achieving complete surprise. But earlier that week, the soldiers had been drilled to release the safety catch and ready their guns for firing in the shortest possible time. The surprised soldier, seeing his lieutenant leaping toward him with a knife, snapped off a shot to protect himself from the attack. The lesson could not have been more successful: the soldier had saved himself and protected the rest of the detachment from a surprise attack. The lieutenant might have wished to commend his soldier on his quick action and accurate marksmanship. Unfortunately, he had been killed with one shot. And this, kiddies, is why we don't play with knives or guns. Ever. Even if we are trained professionals, and especially if our target is a trained professional. __________________

January 8th, 2006	Post 2
bulldogg Milforum's Bouncer Gear	Butterbar. __________________ "The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." - John Steinbeck

January 9th, 2006	Post 3
tomtom22 Chief Engineer Gear	******* Butterbar. __________________ "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations

January 11th, 2006	Post 4
Locke Tribuni Angusticlavii	dumbass good find TI __________________ If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914

January 12th, 2006	Post 5
Spartacus Primus Pilus Gear	WOW. Not quite what he was expecting I think. __________________ Qui tacet consentire. Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum. Nec Aspera Terrent. Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur.

January 14th, 2006	Post 6
03USMC Milforum Moderator Gear	And this is why we don't let butter bars play with knives. __________________ The only people I like besides my wife and children are MARINES. Col. Oliver North USMC

January 16th, 2006	Post 8
Missileer Nuclear Duck Hunter Gear	To St. Peter, "but they said that was the way to do it in OCS." __________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill

January 16th, 2006	Post 9
Chief Bones Forums Grumpy Old Man Gear	Butter Bar - Butter Flar A dumb ** is ALWAYS a dumb ** and a dumb * ALWAYS** gets what he earns (period).* __________________ Fair winds and following seas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < and long may your big jib draw. *-W.R.B. (Chief Bones) FCC(SW) USN(RET)-*

January 16th, 2006	Post 10
Mohmar Deathstrike Banned Gear	What a retard.

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