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NDD wrote: "So, the "close quarters" are literal and not necessarily relative to the distance from the enemy?
Oh, and not necessarily urban?"
This gets down to the old business of trying to explain how far is far. You know, remember those old road crossing drills when someone went to all the trouble to try and state a distance about how far to the left and right you were supposed to put out your security and then how far the clearing party was supposed to clear the area on the other side of the road? I'd be damned if I don't remember that they were doing stupid things like saying 5 to 10 meters to the left and right of the crossing site etc rather than letting folks use common sense and place folks where they could acutally do something smart-you know like being far enough out to actually detect a threat and be in a position to either neutralize it or provide early enough warning to keep the threat from detecting them. Anyway, I digress. If I had to get down and dirty and give out distances I would say anything within pistol range becomes "close quarters" but even then it really depends on the situation at the time. There are times when you want to use a pistol and suppressor to take out someone but the threat to you and your troops really isn't a problem unless you miss the target. Close quarters to me means that you have lost some of the ability to use those systems or tactics, techniques and procedures that you would have rather used to resolve the situation and now it is down to nut cutting time. Now I am sure that even this is relative and sort of boils down to what you and your troops are trained to do and how comfortable they are in CQB situations. I can think of any number of situations where CQB could actually benefit you by taking away the other guys ability to do what he is trained to do. Sort of like getting inside the perimeter and negating his use of final protective fires or covered positions. I also think that CQB means different things to different types of troops. For those guys that wander around the battlefield wrapped in 60 tons of "homosexual" steel CQB to them might mean when they are able to wander around inside the other guys armored formations negating his ability to maximise the use of his long range guns etc. My comments are really directed more at those of us that would be dealing with being close enough to smell the other guys sweat. Just a thought.
Jack Moroney
Für die Sicherheit
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