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Surviving a Firefight | No Man Left Behind


one thing you have to understand about
an SAS soldier you know during them six
months of selection what we do is knock
them soldiers down physically mentally
everything can they get back up and they
keep moving on and you just keep getting
over each hurdle fear is it’s a good
emotion to feel and it keeps you alive
but it’s knowing how to control that
fear and operate it under arduous
conditions you know certainly when
you’re being shot at or when you’re in a
contact you have to control that fear
and let that come out at another time
and you get on with the job if you allow
fear to overwhelm you you will be taken
being in the Special Air Service you
you’re with your training you know how
to manage fear and where to put it and
just took that away
firefight only lasts a few minutes maybe
five 10 minutes and then you know you’re
on to something else but it’s containing
that and directing the aggression in the
in the right in the right direction a
well-aimed shot from a stable platform
you will knock anybody down who’s
running around like a headless chicken
who basically is just squeezing off
rounds and not aiming it takes a lot of
balls for somebody to stand up and hold
a position and hip hold an am shot to
put one it onto target
there’s none of this automatic burst
because again you’ll waste a lot of
rounds and none of the rounds will
actually land on target in terms of
feelings its trainings kicked in there’s
too much going on actually to to worry
about your feelings that always happens
no matter what type of conflict you’re
in you want to get safely home and then
you you you know you mull over what
you’ve done and what’s happened and
everything else but during that thing
everything’s happening that fast you
just react and in training takes over
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