... Rules of Gun Fighting
(Marines; Army; Navy; Air Force)

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USMC Rules For Gun Fighting


1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring their
friends who have guns.

2. If you can, make friends with those on the crew served weapons. Bring them as well. Borrow money
from them, it gives them an added incentive to protect you.

3. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.

4. Only hits count. Close doesn't count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.

5. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough nor using cover correctly.

6. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.)

7. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun.

8. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember
who lived and who didn't.

9. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating (calling for arty or air support), reloading,
and running.

10. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting is more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy
of the gun.

11. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. "All skill is in vain when an Angel pisses in the flintlock of
your musket."

12. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it
because it is empty.

13. In combat, there are no rules, always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

14. Have a plan.

15. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work.

16. Have a back-up, back-up plan in case CentCom or SecDef finds the first two plans "unacceptable".

17. Use cover or concealment as much as possible. The only visible target should be in your gun sights.

18. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect your flank.

19. Don't drop your guard.

20. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees.

21. Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them).

22. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.

23. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.

24. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

25. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.

26. Your number one Option for Personal Security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.

27. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a "4."


Army Rules for Gun Fighting

1. See USMC Rules to gun Fighting.

2. Add 60 to 90 days.

3. Hope the Marines already destroyed all meaningful resistance.


Navy Rules for Gun Fighting

1. Adopt an aggressive offshore posture.

2. Send in the Marines.

3. Drink Coffee and eat donuts.


Air Force Rules for Gun Fighting

1. Kiss the wife goodbye.

2. Drive to the base in your sports car.

3. Fly to target area, drop bombs, (try not to hit the Canucks) fly back to your home base.

4. BBQ some burgers and drink beer in your back yard, and talk shit about the Navy, Army and Marines.


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I found this in the humor section at another forum. No author listed, but I thought y'all might want to see it.



tef

teflon LOL that's a good one, you notice, Marines are mentioned in every other branch's rules right? LOL

Teflon, you missed one in the Marines section, #28,"Do not attend a gunfight with a rifle with a magazine capacity any less than a number that starts with 3 and ends with zero."

And you missed the SF section.
#1. Look cool in lastest fashion Oakley suglasses, and beachwear.
#2. Deploy, Kill everthing you see.
#3. Return to base, Resume looking cool in latest fashion Oakley's and beachwear.

Cheers, Dave.
Non Illegitium Carborundum

Yea, for sure try not to drop bombs on the Canucks. Once was enough.

the chef

yup

Air Force Rules of Battle:
1. Send the officers to do the dirty work.
2. Request a radio call when the officer is an hour away on the return to base, so you can dry off (assuming you were at the pool), put on your uniform and meet the jet on the ramp.

Part B:
Strike with continuous overwhelming firepower from a position of invulnerability.

quote:

9. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating (calling for arty or air support), reloading,
and running.

I'd like to add my own take to #9.

9. If you are not shooting, you should either be commanding the troops that are, or communicating (calling for arty or air support), reloading, and running.

An officer or Sgt commanding his troops is a directing the placement of thousands of rounds downrange, but as soon as they pick up a rifle themselves, they become a highly overpaid grunt contributing nothing more to the fight than the lowest E1/E2 standing next to them.

Teflon:

I read once that there was an old Western expression: " Never bring a knife to a gun fight". Apparently (thank heaven) the USMC has decided to really load up for a fight! Talk about overkill! (Years ago I heard a cop say: " Better to be judged by 12 (a jury)than carried by 6 -meaning that it was better to shoot first and ask questions later (in the old Western expression) No body ever lost by carrying too much gun.

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Navy Rules for Gun Fighting

1. Adopt an aggressive offshore posture.

2. Send in the Marines.

3. Drink Coffee and eat donuts.

Hey, that's exactly why I joined the United States Navy. And why I got assigned to the biggest ship I could find. Nobody never said sailors was stupid.

Thanks to ALL our service men and women wherever they may be.

Ray

Fucking Jar heads! Lets see where do Jar heads go for airborne school oh yeah it's an Army school! The Marine cannon cockers go to Ft Sill and the marine tankers get shipped to Ft Knox. For there training.

Merry christmas to all my fellow Active duty service members and veterans!

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Originally posted by 323:
Fucking Jar heads! Lets see where do Jar heads go for airborne school oh yeah it's an Army school!

Where does the Army go for dive school???

I forgot... they're afraid of the water~!!!

Bwaaahhhhahahahhahahah
we're laughin AT you.... not WITH YOU!

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Originally posted by Collins:

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Originally posted by 323:
Fucking Jar heads! Lets see where do Jar heads go for airborne school oh yeah it's an Army school!

Where does the Army go for dive school???

I forgot... they're afraid of the water~!!!

Bwaaahhhhahahahhahahah
we're laughin AT you.... not WITH YOU!

The Army is not afraid of the water, we just have enough sense to not go spend 6 months out of a year on an oversized soup can. And did I forget to mention that those 6 months are on a soup can containing mostly men. So who are the smart ones now!!!!!

All my cousins were deck swabbies and I was the 1st one to go Army. It makes for interesting family reunions to say the least.

Is that the best you could do was diver school give me a break.

Collins and M1Tanker:

As an old Army man, I think the Marines are an over rated outfit. (Harry Truman said you guys had a propaganda machine) As an old man I'm glad that American soldiers and US Marines are protecting the United States - and me. Thank you.

This is apropros of nothing, but I just bought a new Dodge truck from a salesman in the Dallas area. He was recently medicaled out of the US Army after receiving 17 shrapnel holes serving our country in Iraq from one end to the other, but thanks to rehab is in pretty good shape now. At any rate, he wants to be a policeman and applied to the Dallas PD. He has no college yet but DPD will accept 4 yrs military service in stead of the college requirement. This young man was medicaled out at 3 years 358 days. In spite of the fact that he had no control over the situation, had signed up for a 4 year tour, etc. the Dallas recruiter said, more or less, "Nope, you ain't got 4 years, sorry". Guy slightly lost his temper and said what I thought was a semi-classic. "My pocketknife has seen more action than your whole Department."

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Originally posted by Cheechako:

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Navy Rules for Gun Fighting

1. Adopt an aggressive offshore posture.

2. Send in the Marines.

3. Drink Coffee and eat donuts.

Hey, that's exactly why I joined the United States Navy. And why I got assigned to the biggest ship I could find. Nobody never said sailors was stupid.

Thanks to ALL our service men and women wherever they may be.

Ray

OK, OK, OK - you left out one - supposed to go in at #2 and should read: Shoot up a whole shit load of BI shells, fire off a passel (SP?) of missiles and keep the sky open overhead.

And last one of all; Take real good care of the Marines when they come back aboard - we'll be needing them again.

Gatogordo:

What an incredible (and disgusting) story! If you can you should urge this young man to get in touch with the nearest Veterans Affairs officer and see what can be done. A stiff letter to the Dallas Police Commissioner might also help (along with an implied threat to go public and let a local paper print the story) but I would hope that between the local VFW Post ( which will have people who may have become influential in the community because they served in long ago wars as young men and won't stand still for this) and the Veterans Affairs officer, that this young man will get his opportunity. ( I don't think that once within the Dallas P.D. training program that they would dare to discriminate against him by washing him out for what another recruit wouldn't be flunked for - There would be too many eyes watching) Kipling was right. He wrote a poem once: 'Tommy" - "It's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy go away - But it's thank you, Mr. Atkins when the troop ship's on the tide".

And this is happening in Texas? !!!

Gerry, yes Kipling pretty well much nailed the problem with that poem, didn't he?

Cheers, Dave.

Dave;

Yeah, I'm a Kipling devotee. (believe it or not, my mother was a fan of his and had everything he ever wrote for publication, so, of course, I began reading him at an early age. I read once that few women liked Kipling. Well, my mother was an exception!) Thank heaven!

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Originally posted by 323:
Fucking Jar heads! Lets see where do Jar heads go for airborne school oh yeah it's an Army school! The Marine cannon cockers go to Ft Sill and the marine tankers get shipped to Ft Knox. For there training.

Merry christmas to all my fellow Active duty service members and veterans!

You can say that again.
And when I was at Ft. Campbell 101ABN we had a few Air Force guys going through Air Assault school (Army Instructors).

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Originally posted by Jarrod:

quote:

Originally posted by 323:
Fucking Jar heads! Lets see where do Jar heads go for airborne school oh yeah it's an Army school! The Marine cannon cockers go to Ft Sill and the marine tankers get shipped to Ft Knox. For there training.

Merry christmas to all my fellow Active duty service members and veterans!

You can say that again.
And when I was at Ft. Campbell 101ABN we had a few Air Force guys going through Air Assault school (Army Instructors).

Those that can ...... do.


Those that can't .... teach.


Semper Fi

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Originally posted by gerry375:
... I read once that few women liked Kipling.

I asked a girl I was dating if she liked Kipling.

She said that she had never Kipelled.

John

Since I guess most of you know that the US Army and the US Marines don't have identical jobs, I won't go into that. It was fortunate however that the US Army was around to help defeat the Wehrmacht in WWII.

Wink:

Although I'm from an Army family, I do have to say that the Marines had something to do with fighting the Germans in WW1 at a place called Belleau Wood! (We kept them away from the Wehrmacht in WW2 because we needed them to deal with that other enemy in the Pacific) (I must be getting senile in my old age! here I am defending the Marines!)

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Originally posted by teflon:

quote:

Originally posted by Jarrod:

quote:

Originally posted by 323:
Fucking Jar heads! Lets see where do Jar heads go for airborne school oh yeah it's an Army school! The Marine cannon cockers go to Ft Sill and the marine tankers get shipped to Ft Knox. For there training.

Merry christmas to all my fellow Active duty service members and veterans!

You can say that again.
And when I was at Ft. Campbell 101ABN we had a few Air Force guys going through Air Assault school (Army Instructors).

Those that can ...... do.


Those that can't .... teach.


Semper Fi

That was just plain mean!

Cheers, Dave.