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Originally Posted by El Gato
I got caught flat footed once with a charging dog and alot of stupid worthless stuff in the right hand... you tell yourself to drop the extra stuff... and then watch yourself not drop it..  . it happens...call me paranoid... but just because I'm parianoid doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get me/both of me/etc.  |
Somewhat different context, same issue. I have a good friend who was with a finance unit in Iraq. Part of his duties was providing security to an officer who routinely rolled around the more colorful parts of Baghdad with a footlocker full of US currency used for reconstruction projects (everything runs on cash). Up to a cool million USD in one footlocker.
Anywho, he said one day another team was on duty. One guard to the front and rear with an M4, two guys carrying the footlocker between them. This day a sniper took out the front guard, dropped (wounded) the rear guard. Now, instead of dropping the damn footlocker and diving for cover, the two guys started running with this footlocker that weighs in close to 80 pounds.
Just another example underlying good training that way you respond out of instinct and you don't have to think about it.