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The treatment of POWs had been addressed by an instructor at Ranger school,
and he clearly communicated his personal belief that in a raid or an
ambush, a patrol could not be expected to take POWs. I had noted that most
of the outstanding young soldiers coming to us from the Ranger Battalion
shared this Ranger school belief. To confront this belief I said
basically, "If the enemy finds just one massacre, like our soldiers did at
Malmdy in the Battle of the Bulge, then thousands of enemy soldiers will
swear never to surrender, and they'll be very tough to fight. Just like our
troops were in the Battle of the Bulge when word got around that the
Germans were shooting POWs. In addition, that's all the excuse the enemy
needs to kill our captured soldiers. So by murdering a few prisoners, who
were just poor, tired soldiers like you, you'll make the enemy force a damn
sight tougher, and cause the deaths murders of a whole bunch of our
boys. "On the other hand, if you disarm, tie up, and leave a POW out in a
clearing somewhere because you can't take him with you, then the word will
spread that Americans treat POWs honorably, even when the chips are down,
and a whole bunch of scared, tired soldiers will surrender rather than die.
In World War II an entire Soviet army corps defected to the Germans. The
Germans were treating Soviet POWs like dogs, and yet a whole corps came
over to their side. How would they behave if they faced a humane enemy?
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing
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Both panic and calm are contagious. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, The Bullet
Proof Mind seminar (paraphrased)
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Don't call an unarmed guard "security". It is like expecting a firefighter
without a water hose to stop fires. God bless every brave American put in
this situation, but try to get it fixed as soon as possible, and never let
yourself think you are "safe" because of unarmed security. Lt. Col. Dave

Grossman, The Bullet Proof Mind seminar (paraphrased)

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It was shown after that shooting that the average officer could empty a
high-capacity, 15-round 9mm magazine in four seconds. So does such a
magazine give you the ability to blaze more ammo down range? Upon occasion,
sure, and you can empty that magazine in four seconds. The problem is that
unless you are firing at point-blank range the average shooter cannot hit a
barn door at that rate of fire, and even if you hit the bad guy with all 15
rounds in four seconds, it is highly unlikely that he can die that fast.
Imagine him saying, "I'm going to fall, but you got to give me a second
here." Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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If a police officer makes a mistake in tactics somewhere on a training day,
he will hear about that mistake hourly for the next six months or until
some other officer makes another mistake that gets someone's attention.
With each joke from each member, they emphasize the mistake and improve the
chances that someone will repeat it the next time they use that tactic. Can
you imagine the training value if everyone heard or thought about the right
way of doing that tactic every hour for the next six months? Want to place
a bet on the odds of this team doing that tactic right the next time they
use it? Linda K. Miller and Keith Cunningham, Secrets of Mental
Marksmanship
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Artwohl and Christensen, Deadly Force Encounters: " You may see a muzzle
flash, as if in stop action, or even see a bullet in the air. You may have
a vivid image of the gun, or even a ring on the suspect's hand, but not
remember his face." Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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I n their book Deadly Force Encounters Dr. Alexis Artwohl and Loren
Christensen have done a great job discussing post-combat responses. These
are typical reactions that many survivors of a traumatic event experience
in the minutes, hours, and days after. Immediately afterwards, you might
experience trembling, sweating, chills, nausea, hyperventilation,
dizziness, thirstiness, an urge to urinate, diarrhea, upset stomach, and
jumpiness. Later that night, you might experience sleep disturbance and
nightmares. Some people do not suffer from any of these symptoms, some
experience several of them, while others experience all of them. No matter
how you react, it is important to understand that your reactions are
normal. In the days following the event, you might be preoccupied with
what happened as you relive it over and over in your mind, second guessing
yourself, and thinking you did something wrong, even when you did
everything right. If you are a police officer, you might doubt your ability
to function on the job, and you might be unwilling to continue in your
career. You might be angry, sad, irritable, hypersensitive, vulnerable,
anxious, scared, self-conscious, paranoid, and afraid of being judged by
others. You might feel elated that you survived but guilty because others
did not. You might feel numb, robot-like, unnaturally calm, and alienated
from those who "haven't been there." Your thinking might be confused, you
might experience difficulty concentrating, and you might have an impaired
memory. Overall, I think we can agree that it is not necessarily a
pleasant time, and the individual who is experiencing this needs our help.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat

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Erwin Rommel: First class training is the best form of welfare for the
troops... The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat

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Watson notes in War on the Mind that weapons research has concluded that
the weapons that pose a direct threat to the individual are more
psychologically effective than "area" weapons. Thus, the sniper is more
effective than a hail of machine-gun fire, and the precision-guided bomb is
more effective than the artillery barrage. The more accurate the weapon,
the greater the fear it inspires. As Watson puts it: "Fear equals
accuracy, noise, rapidity of fire--noise being the only truly non-lethal
characteristic that is feared." Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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The King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, published in 1611, translates
the Sixth Commandment from the original Herbrew in the Old Testament,
as "Thou shalt not kill." But in Matthew 19:18 (in the New Testament,
translated from Greek) Jesus cites the Commandments from the KJV, as "Thou
shall do no murder." If you have to kill in the lawful act of your duty,
in defense of yourself or another, is that murder? No. The Bible says that
King David was a man after God's own heart (Acts, 13:22). It says, "Saul
hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands" (1 Samuel, 18:7).
David killed tens of thousands of men in combat and was honored for it. It
was not until he murdered Uriah to get at Bethsheba that he got himself
into trouble (II Samuel Chapter 11). Can you tell the difference in
killing 10,000 men in lawful combat and murdering one man to get at his
wife? If you can, maybe God can too. In Proverbs 6:17 it says, "These
six things doth the Lord hate, yea seven are an abomination." If you have
even a remote sense that there is a God and that he is the God of the
Bible, you might want to know what he hates. Near the top of God's list
are "shedders of innocent blood," and we know that those who have fought to
preserve innocent lives have received the highest honor during 5,000 years
of Judeo-Christian ethos. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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