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Combat
Combat is a relative term loosely used and misused. We all have different ideas and experiences in combat and even they may vary from day to day as things progress. Combat may be a mad minute as the enemy hits the perimeter wire for a Soldier; it might be a 4 hour firefight complete with airstrikes and artillery with a Marine Unit. It could be a Correctional Officer fighting for his life against an inmate who has a shank, a Cop who is pinned down behind his car during a bank robbery and waited for the reload to pop up and finish the fight, the SWAT guy who is caught in the fatal funnel in a hallway taking rounds to the vest and trying to stay on the dot, the Loss Prevention Staff who gets pummeled between a husband and wife team, the 5pm Average Joe Driver who fought his way out of a traffic jam road rage incident to keep his family safe or the Bouncer who has a 5 on one with drunks feeling no pain of his punches and uses sheer heart to stay afoot.
Too many times we lump our
Combat is a relative term loosely used and misused. We all have different ideas and experiences in combat and even they may vary from day to day as things progress. Combat may be a mad minute as the enemy hits the perimeter wire for a Soldier; it might be a 4 hour firefight complete with airstrikes and artillery with a Marine Unit. It could be a Correctional Officer fighting for his life against an inmate who has a shank, a Cop who is pinned down behind his car during a bank robbery and waited for the reload to pop up and finish the fight, the SWAT guy who is caught in the fatal funnel in a hallway taking rounds to the vest and trying to stay on the dot, the Loss Prevention Staff who gets pummeled between a husband and wife team, the 5pm Average Joe Driver who fought his way out of a traffic jam road rage incident to keep his family safe or the Bouncer who has a 5 on one with drunks feeling no pain of his punches and uses sheer heart to stay afoot.
Too many times we lump our