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- Recoiless rifles…aren’t.
- Suppressive fire…..won’t.
- Friendly fire…..isn’t.
- Automatic weapons….aren’t.
- Incoming fire has right-of-way.
- If the enemy is in range, so are you.
- When in doubt, empty the magazine.
- A sucking chest wound is nature’s way of telling you it’s time to slow down.
- Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.
- Anything you do can get you shot…including doing nothing.
- Make it tough enough for the enemy to get in and you won’t be able to get out.
- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
- Professionals are predictable, amateurs are dangerous.
- The easy way is always mined.
- Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
- No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
- If you’re short of everything but the enemy, you’re in a combat zone.
- If your attack is going really well, it’s an ambush.
- No combat-ready unit ever passed inspection.
- No inspection-ready unit ever passed combat.
- Communications will always fail the moment you need air or artillery support.
- If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid.
- You are not Superman. (Freshly graduated recruits from Marine boot camp and all fighter pilots, especially, take note.)
- Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
- When both sides are convinced that they are about to lose; they are both right.
- Don’t look conspicuous, it draws fire (This is why aircraft carriers are called bomb magnets.
- All five-second grenade fuses will brun down in three seconds.
- If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short
- The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.
- The important things are always simple
- The simple things are always hard
- When you have secured an area, don’t forget to tell the enemy.
- If the enemy are in range, SO ARE YOU.
- Beer math is: Two beers times 37 men equal 49 cases.
- Body count math is: Two guerrillas plus one portable plus two pigs equal 37 enemy KIA
- Things that must be together to work, usually can’t be shipped together.
- Tracers work BOTH ways.
- The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
- If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share of objectives to take
- Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs
- Murphy was a grunt.
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