Navy Seal on situational awareness
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TEXASforLIFE
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I laugh at the body weight comment! Underestimating on his part! Height also is a misconception! But that all depends on Y O U! Sounds like some needs a lesson!
Onewolf426
Hellcat
How easily can you throw around someone who is 225 lbs. versus someone who is 110, 150 lbs is his point. Depending on your height and weight, someone 5'5" @155 lbs comes charging at you, are they going to be difficult for you to fend off, as opposed to 6'2 @225 lbs?
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
Very easy as I'm used to dealing with 400+#. Anything 2-4 times my body weight is easy for me. Life of a farm and rancher gave me that advantage
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
Plus the help in martial arts added to it
Onewolf426
Hellcat
I am sure he is not referring to you strapping, cornfed studs. More along the lines of average Joe's, like me.
TEXASforLIFE
SAINT
There's always limits going both ways. People in football found out my capabilities and realized don't mess with the little kid
As a veteran of Air and Armored Cavalry in VN I had occasion to visit Ft. Irwin/NTC in October 2003 shortly before the 2/11th ACR deployed to Iraq. Having been in combat with 2/11th years prior I was asked to speak to the Troopers in groups as they they made preparations, sharing survival tips & things to be aware of in this kind of conflict. At the top of this list was Situational Awareness & especially "Complacency" in what are regarded as relatively secure activities that have been conducted frequently without incident. The enemy looks for "soft" targets, like your FOB basketball games or meal escort duties where one's guard has been allowed to lapse because "we've done this a hundred times before without interference"*. Falling into routine can be dangerous, even fatal. The enemy is not looking to strike you when in full battle rattle if he can help it. Maintaining situational awareness during "down time" requires a lot of discipline.
Happily, three years later I was making another trip to NTC that coincided with the G/2/11th ACR reunion dinner held at a VFW in Bakersfield, the site nearest the home of one 1/11th ACR Troopers, Sgt Adrian Orosco who was KIA. As it was a Troop from another Squadron, he must have been operating jointly with 2/11th to be so recognized.
*An example of this from VN was a mortar attack on the chow line at FSB Fiddler's Green, causing 13 casualties.
The FSB had been built with a lot of Vietnamese labor so there was no aspect of the base that hadn't been silently registered by workers who were thinking ahead. (Color me unenthusiastic about the use of indigenous labor in military operations...you can't vet them all)
Thereafter, it was flak jackets and helmets in the chow line if you expected to be served.
Happily, three years later I was making another trip to NTC that coincided with the G/2/11th ACR reunion dinner held at a VFW in Bakersfield, the site nearest the home of one 1/11th ACR Troopers, Sgt Adrian Orosco who was KIA. As it was a Troop from another Squadron, he must have been operating jointly with 2/11th to be so recognized.
*An example of this from VN was a mortar attack on the chow line at FSB Fiddler's Green, causing 13 casualties.
The FSB had been built with a lot of Vietnamese labor so there was no aspect of the base that hadn't been silently registered by workers who were thinking ahead. (Color me unenthusiastic about the use of indigenous labor in military operations...you can't vet them all)
Thereafter, it was flak jackets and helmets in the chow line if you expected to be served.