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Old 08-16-2006, 12:17   #30
beedlesw
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ft Carson
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Originally Posted by scout3234
kind of off the subject, but here goes, national guard soldiers go to basic with the regular army guys, so they are being taught the same crap. or better yet, not remembering the same crap that they are being taught. weve had guys come back and have no clue how many types of ambushes there are. by the saem token, i have a 1SG who believes there is a near, far, and deliberate ambush. how exactly do i answer that lol
there are near, far, deliberate, L shaped, linear and pretty much any kind of ambush somebody wants to think up. My PSG is fond of saying 'there is an infinite number of solutions to any given tactical problem', and there is an infinite number of tactics, techniques, and procedures, SOPs and ways of doing things that people have come up with over the years, some just work better than others. In my experience they don't just give people the rank of 1SG because they ask for it, he's been around a while and knows a good deal more than yourself, so you might want to do a lot less smack talking about your senior NCOs and a little more listening and researching, but thats just me.
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