1] RULE 1: NEVER trust
civilians in enemy or unknown terrain. NEVER. Do not eat
or drink anything they offer, and try to avoid their questions.
Don’t be over suspicious, but also, never be overconfident.
And never be rude or abusive with civilians. As long as
they don’t hurt you or constitute a direct threat
to you, be extremely polite with them, but don’t
trust them.
2] When you’re in a shooting or observation position
in a building, always choose a window with a dark background
to stand behind. And watch that rifle’s end; make
sure it never goes out from the window or opening you’re
shooting with.
3] In night combat situations avoid shooting from the
same place for too long especially if shooting with an
AK-47; the muzzle flash will expose your position quite
quickly. So unless you have a really good flash suppressor
installed on your rifle, keep moving from one place to
another, alternate positions, shoot only at targets, and
a reminder, the golden rule, rifles never set in full-auto
mode.
4] Out of personal experience, when under attack by heavy
artillery or tanks, and you’re in a building area,
and can’t leave your position, go up to the roof.
The roof is the safest place, especially if its a tall
building. When you’re in a room or inside an apartment
or even in the shelter, wherever a bomb falls, you will
be hit by shrapnel or fragments… most of our injuries
were shrapnel injuries by the way. When you’re on
the roof, unless the bomb directly hits you, (a 1 out
of million probability) you won’t be injured, and
if it hits, well, you’re really really unlucky!
5] Avoid using RPG-7’s in urban combat situations,
its useless. A lot of rife’ will not share that
idea with me, but in street to street combat, or room-to-room
fights, it was proven useless. It’s useless against
infantry, and you need a lot of expertise to be able to
stop a tank with it since the tank has only certain limited
areas which are vulnerable to the RPG rocket, but that’s
a whole different issue. The RPG-7’s backfire is
also really annoying, you have to look behind you and
check that there is no one standing there or a wall, etc….
The best rocket launchers to use in urban warfare are
either the LAW or the Carl-Gustave, the latter being equipped
with special anti infantry rockets. For armored vehicles,
the MILAN is 100% effective.
6] When clearing a building or a house, always check the
places no one ever checks… the attics, water tanks,
balconies, etc… this is where they always hide,
lol, damn rats!
7] Two common and lethal mistakes to avoid when throwing
grenades inside a room or a building’s entrance,
1) Make sure there is no wall on the other side where
the grenade would hit and come back bouncing to you…
not funny at all! 2) Beware throwing the grenade and jumping
after it inside the room before it blows. Its very easy
to get over excited. This is really serious, and it happened
a lot, that’s why you should always check where
you’re throwing the grenade and have your buddy
grab you when throwing it… he’ll only let
you go when it blows up. That’s a standard training
procedure, the first thing we all learned in urban warfare
training.
8] When charging inside the building, in narrow corridors
or staircases or small rooms, if you’re not the
first man, always keep your gun up, in a 60 degrees angle.
And unless you want to shoot, keep that finger off that
trigger!!! You’ll end up shooting a buddy in the
back by mistake. This happened a lot too, the main cause
of friendly casualties. So watch it too
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