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Monday, July 29, 2013

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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Well, to be fair, it does say "High Risk" right on the box. (Although there's always the possibility that's not what they meant by that.)

33 comments:

JD(not the one with the picture) said...: Having guns pointed at me usually gives me a good case of anhedonia.; 11:40 AM, July 29, 2013
Ritchie said...: Lowest bidder?; 11:44 AM, July 29, 2013
Tam said...: Ritchie,

The only qualifications to be in those stacks are successful attendance at "Fighting Rifle" class and the ability to not bounce a $1,750 check. That's it.; 11:46 AM, July 29, 2013
Tam said...: Is Cattle Call of Duty trademarked?; 11:47 AM, July 29, 2013
RabidAlien said...: LOL Ya know, someone should come up with a set of rules regarding gun safety, and maybe mention "being aware of your target and not pointing at anything you're not willing to destroy." Unless, of course, he's pissed at the dude with the spiffy Operating Tactical Operator's Orange Earprotectors of Operatingness.; 11:47 AM, July 29, 2013
Kristophr said...: Youtube video post is moderated of course.

Nothing but fanboi posts allowed.; 11:52 AM, July 29, 2013
Anonymous said...: First thing that came to my mind was "DumbAss"; 12:00 PM, July 29, 2013
John said...: I think it was all summed up by the chucklehead who entered the room and yelled "Whoo" as he started to fire his AK at the 1:07 mark. All I could think was mother of god, I mean eventually the law of averages has to catch up. Eventually I realized I had seen this before, except it was watching a bunch of Uzbeks clear a building during joint training.; 12:24 PM, July 29, 2013
KevinC said...: And the fun doesn't end there!

Check out the action at 0:48, where our group of high-drag, low-speed operators form a stack and clear a room...

.. that has an instructor with a death wish sitting right in the middle of it.

What are they doing in the drill that they CAN'T do with airsoft (aside from killing a person with an ND, that is)?; 12:28 PM, July 29, 2013
Tam said...: KevinC,

Because real operators use human no-shoots!

(Check out 1:19 where that TR fixture, Camera Guy, is kneeling in the middle of the room getting good footage while guys are buttonhooking in with AKs blazing...); 12:37 PM, July 29, 2013
global village idiot said...: The guys with the brooms and mops and mop buckets clearing the laundry room had better discipline.

gvi; 12:47 PM, July 29, 2013
global village idiot said...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTg_CdPmW28; 12:50 PM, July 29, 2013
Anonymous said...: Obviously proud alumni of Florence Foster Jenkins University.

Kishnevi; 12:51 PM, July 29, 2013
skidmark said...: Highly trained. Professional -level training.

Which is why the first piece of equipment I look to see if a trainer uses is a 2x4. Don't have one? I'm outta there.

stay safe.; 12:55 PM, July 29, 2013
Tam said...: gvi,

That made my morning. :); 1:02 PM, July 29, 2013
rickn8or said...: Trainees for the local library SWAT?

(Well, it seems everybody ELSE has one, and they really need to go after those scofflaw overdue-book people.); 1:08 PM, July 29, 2013
Sebastian said...: The amazement no one got shot in that whole thing aside, would you trust a bunch of loosely fitted 6x6s to stop a 7.62x39 fired at point-blank range? I wouldn't. That shoot house looks like a hazard to anyone inside or in its immediate vicinity.; 1:25 PM, July 29, 2013
Sebastian said...: Taking a look at this again, the walls look like they may be double walled. Still, I've seen enough strange bullet-wood interactions at my club to be wary of relying on wood to prevent someone from being shot. I hope they have steel plating sandwiched in between.; 1:27 PM, July 29, 2013
Tam said...: Sebastian,

Judging by the visual effects on the steel targets, they're almost certainly using frangible ammo.

But still... Yikes.; 1:32 PM, July 29, 2013
cj said...: Not realizing there was a video, I was thinking perhaps the first stack needed a little motivation to head in...; 1:33 PM, July 29, 2013
Unknown said...: Hey, I'm an Operator. The little book thingy that came with my toaster oven says so. Does that mean I can get in on action like this?; 1:56 PM, July 29, 2013
Will said...: They've got some left-handers there, why aren't they alternating entry?
Maybe they think that's cheating.; 2:02 PM, July 29, 2013
Anonymous said...: I just thought it was some new tactical move if they may have some quislings on the breaching team.

No, I insist, after you my ANA comrades!

Gerry; 2:06 PM, July 29, 2013
Anonymous said...: He's the guy who always says "I've got your back."; 3:06 PM, July 29, 2013
Unknown said...: Eep. No thanks, Gun Skool.; 3:30 PM, July 29, 2013
Geodkyt said...: Gerry and CJ to share the win.; 4:17 PM, July 29, 2013
Kristophr said...: Can I get off this clown bus here?; 4:48 PM, July 29, 2013
Matthew said...: High Risk tactical teams have rail-mounted interrupter gears on their for perfect synchronization on entries.

Apparently y'all aren't operator enough to know about that.; 7:12 PM, July 29, 2013
Matthew said...: On their -carbines-, dammit.; 7:13 PM, July 29, 2013
Anonymous said...: Tam...I couldn't help myself. Had to post this in the bar.

http://bar.baen.com/index.php?t=msg&th=99541&start=0&

Tks for the laughs!

leaperman; 8:31 PM, July 29, 2013
AuricTech said...: So, Matthew, should we give them props for having interrupter gears?; 9:06 PM, July 29, 2013
Anonymous said...: One time when I was in the fleet for all of like a week I did that with a rubber rifle...I got the ever living fuck beaten out of me and and had the privilege of carrying a pretty unreasonable amount of rocks around for the rest of the training day.; 10:30 PM, July 29, 2013
Unknownsailor said...: Pat Rogers does shoot house classes, but he only does 2 man elements (imagine husband/wife team clearing the house to get to their children), and he vets everyone who signs up.; 2:50 PM, July 31, 2013