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USMC Rules For Gunfighting1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.
4. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough nor using cover correctly.
5. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.)
6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running.
9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
9.5. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME.
"All skill is in vain when the Angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket." (From what looks like a very old stained glass window in a German Officer's club.)
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. Have a plan.
13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work.
14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible. The visible target should be in FRONT of your gun.
15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
16. Don't drop your guard.
17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees.
18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them).
19. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.
21. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
22. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
23. Your number one Option for Personal Security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with at least a "4."
24a. A .40/10mm is just a medium bore with a better publicity agent than a 9mm. Use a .44 or .45 and Vaseline your hollowpoints
Navy Rules to Gunfighting1. Adopt an aggressive offshore posture
2. Send in the Marines
3. Drink Coffee
* If the enemy is in range, so are you.
* If its stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid. (worth repeating)
* You are not Superman [ Marines & Fighter Pilots take note ].
* Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.
* Odd objects attract fire - never lurk behind one.
* When in doubt, empty the magazine.
* Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.
* Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
* There is always a way, Thinking of it before you need to is the trick.
* If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed toward you.
* Five second fuses only last three seconds.
* If the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is *not* our friend.
* Make it too tough for the enemy to get in, and you can't get out.
* Any ship can be a minesweeper... once.
* Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.
* It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
* The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.
* When you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in combat.
* Incoming fire has right of way.
* Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons
* The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions: When you're ready for them. When you're not ready for them.
* The side with the simplest uniforms wins.
* Who cares if a laser guided 500 lb. bomb is accurate to within 9 feet?
* Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything
* Body Count --- 4 Pigs + 3 Cows + 1 Enemy = 99 KIA's.
* No combat ready unit ever passed inspection.
* No inspection ready unit ever passed combat.
* Teamwork is essential. It gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
* Tracers work both ways.
* The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
* Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
* Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support.
* If they're shooting at you, it's a high intensity conflict.
* A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
* If at first you don't succeed, call for artillery.
* Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.
* When artillery doesn't work, call for an air strike.
* Close only counts in horse shoes, hand grenades, and H-bombs.
* No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
* Friendly fire --- Isn't.
* The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an 2nd Lieutenant with a map.
* The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.
* The buddy system is essential to your survival, it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
* The further you are in advance of your own positions, the more likely your artillery will shoot short.
* If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.
* The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
* If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.
* The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.
* There is nothing more satisfying than having someone take a shot at you [ and miss ].
* Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants.
* If the Gunny can see you, so can the enemy.
* Never worry about the bullet with your name on it. Instead, worry about shrapnel addressed to 'occupant'.
* All battles are fought at the junction of two or more map sheets --- printed at different scales.
* All battles are fought uphill.
* All battles are fought in the rain.
* Logistics is the ball and chain of armoured warfare.
* "Military Intelligence" is a contradiction of terms.
* What gets you promoted from one rank gets you killed in the next rank.
* A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
* If orders can be misunderstood, they will be.
* War is like love. To triumph, you must make contact.
* Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.
* Never reinforce failure. Failure reinforces itself.
* Only 5% of an intelligence report is accurate. The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.
* Tactics are for amateurs; professionals study logistics.
* When a front line soldier overhears two General Staff officers conferring, he's fallen back too far.
* It isn't necessary to be an idiot to be a senior officer, but it sure helps.
* No captain can do very wrong who places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
* Always know when it's time to get out of Dodge City.
* Always know how to get out of Dodge City.
* Always remember, your equipment was made by the lowest bidder.
* Priorities are made by officers, not God. There's a difference.
* Always honour a threat.
* The weight of all of your equipment is proportional to the length of the time you have been carrying it.
* Fighter pilots make movies; Attack pilots make history.
* There are two kinds of naval vessels: submarines and targets.
* A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
* Surprise is an event that takes place in the mind of a commander.
* All warfare is based on deception.
* A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
* If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share to take.
* Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.
* Parade ground inspections are to combat readiness as mess hall food is to cuisine.
* Cold and snow are not neutral.
* The tank is a monument to the inaccuracy of indirect fire.* Diplomacy has rarely been able to gain at the conference table what cannot be gained and held on a battlefield.
* War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
* Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
* Good enough --- Isn't.
* He who wants to defend everything defends nothing.
* Mine fields are not neutral. They attack anyone.
* The effective radius of a hand grenade is always greater than the distance you can jump.
* The effective radius of a hand grenade is greater then the average grunt can throw it.
* Your mortar barrage will put exactly one round on the intended target. That round will be a dud.
* The mortar team will always have the correct number of safety pins to prove they armed all the rounds. To ensure this, the mortar team should carry extra pins.
* There is no such thing as a convenient fighting hole.
* Odd objects attract fire. You are odd.
* More aircraft are incapacitated by a shortage of spare parts than by enemy action.
* Beer Math --- 2 Beers X 12 Grunts equals 49 Cases.
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