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When we are developing standard operating guidelines (SOGs), it is wise to
provide for a general approach in the form of strategic objectives. In
general, our strategic objectives follow a logical system: 1. Save life. 2.
Stabilize the incident. 3. Conserve property. These objectives are easily
remembered, address our priorities for managing an incident, and are
general enough to allow an incident commander to choose a specific plan.
Christopher Brennan, The Combat Position: Achieving Firefighter Readiness
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What we need is a strong, compelling image of the behavior we want so it
will replace the old habit. We want them NOT to focus on what they are
doing wrong; we want them instead to focus on what they need to do to get
it right. Linda K. Miller and Keith Cunningham, Secrets of Mental
Marksmanship
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Marshall noted many specific World War II incidents in which almost all
soldiers would fire their weapons while their leaders observed and
encouraged them in a combat situation, but when the leaders left, the
firing rate immediately dropped to 15 to 20 percent. Lt. Col. Dave
Grossman, On Killing
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Either response--wanting to go, or a workmanlike desire to do it well and
get it over with--is fine and it is not for us to judge those who feel
either way. These are warriors who are willing to answer the summons of the
trumpet and enter into the realm of combat; their response, I believe, is
quite healthy. Those who do not face combat with eagerness or steely
determination are probably the ones who, as Steve Tarani and Damon Fay put
it in their excellent book Contact Weapons, will have " a debilitating and
life-altering event" that will send them "into an unrecoverable
psychological tailspin." Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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Of all the actions you could take in combat, the one most likely to destroy
you is to commit an atrocity or a criminal act. Your unconscious mind,
you "puppy" knows that you are not at peace with the "pack" and that can
eat you alive. ... Earlier, I talked about how pain shared is pain
divided. This is a powerful tool, but when a warrior commits a criminal
act, he cannot share that pain. I also talked about how you are only as
sick as your secrets. If as a warrior you commit a crime or an act of
vengeance, you cannot share that secret with anyone, and it will only eat
away at you. When we are young and hard, we think we can get away with
anything. A World War II veteran once sat across from me, wracked with
sobs. He was, to my mind, a magnificent noble American, but he had made one
tragic, horrific mistake in his life and it was eating him alive. He looked
at me, tears streaming down his cheeks, and said, "Colonel, I'm an old man
now, and I'm going to have to answer to my maker soon. I'm going to have to
answer for that day it was inconvenient to take those German soldiers back.
The day we shot them while they were quote, 'trying to escape.' I murdered
those men that day; we murdered them. We didn't have to kill them. We
murdered them, and soon I will have to answer to my maker for what I
did." What do you tell a man like that? No one is beyond redemption, but
I know what that old soldier would advise us: "Don't do it." Lt. Col.
Dave Grossman, On Combat
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Numerous studies have demonstrated that there is not any distinguishable
threat of violence to society from the veterans returning to the United
States from any of the wars of the twentieth century, and this remains true
into the twenty-first century. There are Vietnam veterans who commit
violent crimes, but statistically the returning veteran is less likely to
commit a violent crime than a non-veteran of the same age and sex. Lt.
Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing
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During his interviews with British veterans of the Falklands War, Holmes
described Marshall's observations in World War II and asked if they had
seen a similar incidence of nonfirers in their own forces. Their response
was that they had seen no such thing occur with their soldiers, but there
was "immediate recognition that it applied to the Argentineans, whose
snipers and machine gunners had been very effective while their individual
riflemen had not." Here we see an excellent comparison between the highly
effective and competent British riflemen, trained by the most modern
methods, and the remarkably ineffective Argentinean riflemen, who had been
given old style, World War II vintage training. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On
Killing
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Those who commit atrocities have burned their bridges behind them and know
that they cannot surrender, but even as they have enabled themselves, they
have enabled their enemies. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing
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Train with the fire fighters, working together to fight terrorists who WILL
use fire as a "weapon of mass destruction". Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, The
Bullet Proof Mind seminar (paraphrased)
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We must recognize that it is psychologically easier to kill with an edged
weapon that permits a long stand off range, and increasingly more difficult
as the stand off range decreases. Thus it is considerably easier to impale
a man with a twenty foot pike than it is to stab him with a six inch
knife. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing
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