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Originally Posted by Pete
Blanks don't kill anybody.
In the 70s and 80s it was quite common for a number of troopers in the 82nd to drop weapons at the first contact with students and Gs during Robin Sage and give chase. It would develope into a foot race and many arguments.
Site selection is very important when all you have is blanks. Working wire fences, ditches and streams into your plans can greatly improve the "kill zone" and impede the bad guys. A squad of Infantry who drops their weapons and charges into your force looks real funny hung up on a three strand barbed wire fence. And after that one they were real slow in chasing us anywhere at night. 
If you know where they are at, fences are your friends. |
An exercise where I was involved, we are doing a very close recce of an enemy location. One guard was slumped & and not paying much attention, behind a tree to my left sector and I had initially missed him going forward.
Once we were retreating from the particular direction, he popped up, with his jacked hood covering his head.
His rifle was against the tree and the sight of three camoed and armed men training their weapons on him, I think he was startled a bit.
He looked at his weapon, at us, back at his weapon....and went for it. After a few bursts of blanks, we were well away before they got anyone mobilized.