Shoot to wound, military mentality

[Mike Irwin]

"Geneva Convention"

You sure the shotgun isn't covered by the Hague Accords?

Geneva Convention mainly talks about the treatment of enemy prisoners.

 

[curt]

I've heard, from someone who looked like he had been in a war, that the M16 was designed to be so accurate so you could shoot the enemies testicles off thereby demorilizing a whole company and effecitively ending the engagement. This apparently did not work in action as the average infantryman couldn't make the shot without squirming and disrupting his aim.

Or at least that's what i heard.

Im thinking of making up my own line of targets.

 

[Ol' Badger]

curt

shoot the enemies testicles off

Where did you here that????

 

[curt]

Where did you here that????

Ooops forgot the smilie

 

[Feanaro]

I have never heard that the military teaches you to shoot to wound but an enemy who is wounded and out of combat(a casualty) requires someone to take him off the field, treat him and so on. A dead enemy could of course require people to bury him but more dead people go unburied than wounded go untreated. Does a soldier or even a commander really care about wounding the enemy? No. If you do, good. If you kill him he is out of the battle anyways, so that's good.

 

[444]

I am no military expert, but I was in the military. I can assure you that we were never told anything about shooting to wound. On the rifle range we fired at pop up silhouette targets and we never once went forward to see exactly where we hit them. They either went down or they didn't. Although we were instructed to shoot COM.
Just to show you how ridiculous this whole thing is, think about this. In combat, the rounds are flying, you are scared to death. You are shooting at moving shapes, you are moving, you are ducking. And you think that someone is going to not just shoot back, but pick specific shots intended to only wound the enemy ? Please.

Why not start an offshoot of IPSC where you are penalized for hitting the A-Zone. Maybe you can adjust your sights so that you aim COM but hit way low or something.

 

[PvtPyle]

What a load of crap. A wounded soldier can still return fire and KILL you. You dont shoot to wound, and I have never heard an NCO in the Marine Corps or the Army say anything of the sort. Does this ring a bell to anyone....

"To locate, close with and destroy the enemy....."

If wounding was the intent why doesn't this say "and wound the enemy"?


The 5.56 in it's original weight and twist was a killer. Dont blame a prefectly good weapon that was designed to kill for a bunch of REMF decissions to jack around with bullet weight and twist rates.

And THAT problem is being solved as we speak, by hook or by crook. The 106gr rounds we just got to take with us on our next little adventure were not meant to wound. These are designed to kill, plain and simple.

 

[adobewalls]

Interesting topic guys, as a youngster I first heard this when it was attributed to the M-16 being able to hit a target in the forearm and exit the torso due to "tumbling." I think those statements have been pretty well been discredited.

Next I heard it attributed to our enemies on how to deal with us - tie up our resources extracting the wounded and then demoralizing the home front.

In my opinion, this theory "may" have some merit when regular armies engage in a battle of attrition - but I can't imagine a Taliban, Al Queda, Fedayeen or Hamas death squad being too concerned over the health and recovery of their wounded comrads - better to leave the casualties to be picked up by the Americans, (who will probably try to save his life in spite of his politico-religious intentions.)