EIB0879
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I remember that we were taught to drop to both knees not one.
So trueIf you're being shot at, you don't care about anything other than getting as close to mother earth as possible.
Jungle training in the snow. Now that’s funny.I don't recall doing it with an M-16 but I may have in Jungle Training at Fort Dix in 2 feet of snow.
So is the principle that this is faster to get your body on the ground than going down both knees then elbows, with the rifle moving in line to the target throughout? @taliv - you have perspective on how we go prone with PRS rifles, is this simply faster to prevent bullet wounds? I can’t see this remotely possible of being faster to a first round downrange.
The real trick is getting back up the same way lol.
This technique is for when you're walking along a trail and a belt fed machinegun opens up on you from 500 meters away. This is a "bullets have the right of way" type of manuever, not a shooting thing.
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I have an old army training manual from the 20s, and it shows to go prone like this.
It seems very fast but a good way to twist an ankle, but maybe it works better than it looks.
Have any of you ever gone prone like this?
This technique is for when you're walking along a trail and a belt fed machinegun opens up on you from 500 meters away. This is a "bullets have the right of way" type of manuever, not a shooting thing.
Folks, this is not intended for target shooting, It is to hit the ground quickly not necessarily a shooting position depending on circumstances. This drill is from the days of wooden stocks that are used to cushion the fall with your rifle.
If you're being shot at, you don't care about anything other than getting as close to mother earth as possible.
It's a moot point since this is from the a long time ago. Yes this is assuming you are moving forward in a combat situation moving forward quickly gun in hand in a controlled move to put you possibly a shooting position. I doubt that this is current training. In actual combat as seen in WW 2 footage it's more like a flop in beach landings. I don't know if this would be useful in current combat, maybe in desert fighting. In actual combat you do what you have to in the situation as it happens. It didn't apply to me as most of the ambushes I was in I was in or on a truck. While not in a truck I was at a base of some kind with defensive positions. Once during an attack, mortors and rockets, several of us have to take cover in a bunker with just sitting room. A guy ran from the shower buck naked and dove in sliding right over the some of us. I don't recall any training for that. LOL.i'm not really super invested in arguing about which way is fastest to get out of the way of bullets. but it seems to me the method described in the pic is demonstrably slower than the one I previously described. it assumes the rifle is already in your hands in the proper position (whereas it may be slung or in a low ready or other position when the bullets start flying towards you... but even assuming it's in your hands already as shown in the pic, it would take muscle to start your body moving forward (pivoting around your feet) and falling, and then when your knee hits, it's going to slow you down, and when your rifle butt hits, you're slowing down, etc. when you compare this to simply dropping straight down, letting gravity do it's thing immediately, and kicking your legs out behind you as you approach a squatted position, much like doing a burpee, I'd wager money the method described in the OP is not the fastest way to get out of the way. you're for sure going to get from standing to a push up position (pretty low) faster.