I don't know a ton about CQB, or room clearing; for me, it's basically skills in armed home invasion, which is singularly un-useful to a civilian.
Still.
My best friend, an 11B during the surge (one of Hertling's folks actually) said something to me once relevant to NAFO:
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Still.
My best friend, an 11B during the surge (one of Hertling's folks actually) said something to me once relevant to NAFO:
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It was back in '13 or '14, when I ran a startup and my first investors were my veteran friend who served in Iraq, and my other veteran friend who served in Afghanistan (an 86W medic with the 173rd, coincidentally, also Mark Hertling's folks).
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They're talking about stack order and who goes where in a center-fed room or something, which just means a room where the door is in the middle of a wall.
Infantrymen are (for good reason) like macho, overly-fit nerds about kinds of rooms they clear, I've noticed.
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Infantrymen are (for good reason) like macho, overly-fit nerds about kinds of rooms they clear, I've noticed.
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And the 11B says to Doc, as a breacher, they taught me, the first man through the door is never wrong.
I remember Doc nodding vigorously. Yep, he said, first guy is never wrong. Doesn't matter if they go left or go right or engage whatever, you roll with what they do.
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I remember Doc nodding vigorously. Yep, he said, first guy is never wrong. Doesn't matter if they go left or go right or engage whatever, you roll with what they do.
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It makes sense if you think about it as a general rule of thumb.
It applies to building things like Twitter: you might not think that the way it's designed or engineered is ideal, exactly, but you don't know what logic inspired them or what processes derived them.
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It applies to building things like Twitter: you might not think that the way it's designed or engineered is ideal, exactly, but you don't know what logic inspired them or what processes derived them.
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It's a mistake to think the first coders on the codebase were always wrong.
It applies to war with #NAFO really well. The first operators on a target are *never wrong*.
Sure, they have logic you should be aware of, and targeting details you need to review for accuracy.
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It applies to war with #NAFO really well. The first operators on a target are *never wrong*.
Sure, they have logic you should be aware of, and targeting details you need to review for accuracy.
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It's like with #parmesanGirl - I have no idea, zero, why #nafoFella decided to even mess with her to begin with - there is no shortage of horrific liars on Twitter - except that there seemed to be good value in developing a community through it.
But you respect the logic.
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But you respect the logic.
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It's not quite conformism I'm talking about here - sometimes the first fellas are wrong, the first guy through the door zigs when he should have zagged, the first operators on a propaganda target don't have the best strategy for it.
There are times when it's right though.
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There are times when it's right though.
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"The first fella through the door is never wrong" means that even if what they did isn't optimal, treating it like it was wrong, right off the bat, is likely not going to help anything or make friends for that matter. It'll probably make things worse - again, look at Elon.
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And given that people are, mostly, at least somewhat valid in their reasons for what they do, at least at the personal level, for themselves...
Most of the time, it's smarter to complement and go off of what the first fellas through the door do, not try to erase and supplant it.
Most of the time, it's smarter to complement and go off of what the first fellas through the door do, not try to erase and supplant it.
*correction, 68W medic
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