Nbadan
03-31-2006, 02:38 PM
Convoys to Stand and Fight When Attacked
GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — In a change to Army tactics, U.S. soldiers will stand and fight instead of shooting and pressing on when their convoys are attacked on Iraqi roads, according to Harvey Perritt, spokesman for the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Va.
“In the first two years of Iraq, convoys (under attack) just fired and kept rolling,” said Maj. Roger Gaines, the battalion’s operations officer said Thursday. “That gave bad guys the perception that Americans run away. Now, convoys will stop and engage the enemy.”
The change is part of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker’s underlying philosophy of a more rigorous response to attacks, Perritt said in a telephone interview Thursday.
The training is mandatory for all soldiers, regardless of their military occupational specialty.
Military.com (http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,92896,00.html)
During an exercise in Germany that tested these new tactics:
Company C’s 3rd Platoon leader, 2nd Lt. Joshua Mendoza, 26, of Chandler, Ariz., said shooting on the run did not send insurgents the right message.
Yes it sends the message, "We're not dumb enough to stick around and get ambushed"
Fucken Duck-shoot. Didn't we learn anything from the colonial wars? Do they think these insurgents are just gonna stick around and be pin-pointed by laser-guided weapons?
GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — In a change to Army tactics, U.S. soldiers will stand and fight instead of shooting and pressing on when their convoys are attacked on Iraqi roads, according to Harvey Perritt, spokesman for the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Va.
“In the first two years of Iraq, convoys (under attack) just fired and kept rolling,” said Maj. Roger Gaines, the battalion’s operations officer said Thursday. “That gave bad guys the perception that Americans run away. Now, convoys will stop and engage the enemy.”
The change is part of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker’s underlying philosophy of a more rigorous response to attacks, Perritt said in a telephone interview Thursday.
The training is mandatory for all soldiers, regardless of their military occupational specialty.
Military.com (http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,92896,00.html)
During an exercise in Germany that tested these new tactics:
Company C’s 3rd Platoon leader, 2nd Lt. Joshua Mendoza, 26, of Chandler, Ariz., said shooting on the run did not send insurgents the right message.
Yes it sends the message, "We're not dumb enough to stick around and get ambushed"
Fucken Duck-shoot. Didn't we learn anything from the colonial wars? Do they think these insurgents are just gonna stick around and be pin-pointed by laser-guided weapons?