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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atticus_of_Amber" data-source="post: 79247" data-attributes="member: 2683">Calm under fireI remember reading something by a guy who had actually been in a number of gunfights with untrained opponents. I *think* it was an account of an undercover cop planted in the mob. His biggest break came when he was with the people he was trying to infiltrate and they were attacked by a rival gang. His military and police training meant that he was much calmer under fire. It impressed the guys he was trying to infiltrate so much, they employed him.Thei guy was saying that, against untrained opponents, the best stratergy is to stand up out of cover, calmly take aim, fire, then return to cover. Sure, the other guy gets off at least one shot first, but he's so scared, he almost always misses. Come to think of it, that's pertty much what the Edward Woodward character from "The Equalizer" at the end of almost every episode. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Basically, what this guy was saying is that being calm under fire is the pre-requisite to winning a gunfight. Only if both sides have that, does skill come in to play.The reason so many of the Somalis died in the Black Hawk incident was probably partly this "calm under fire" ability of the hightly trained US troops and partly the superior technology the troops had available to them. Also, I think the trenches of Galipoli in WWI proved the difficulty of attacking a trained enemy armed with automatic weapons (in that case, early machine guns) and entrenched in cover.</blockquote>

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