Good thing about this bullet vs. the bullet pass you don't get a second chance to see the pump fake (+). This idea also pertains directly to your egress to your BoL if you do not currently reside there. You need to have driven the routes and have way-points where if you need to walk the rest of the way you don't end up in Mexico trying to find rural North Carolina. From learning column formations to disbursement into defensive positions while on your trek, even to how to fight from a vehicle is all important to at least do some dry run at the very least.

We practice run our bug out routes every few weeks. Even though we are planning on bugging IN, we practice our routes because some are sneaky and complicated to avoid heavily traveled roads.

war tide wrote:We practice run our bug out routes every few weeks. Even though we are planning on bugging IN, we practice our routes because some are sneaky and complicated to avoid heavily traveled roads.

See, that is great. I have gone so far as to measure out the sidewalks on the roads that I have to travel. I have 7 routes planned, but unfortunately 3 of them feed off the same road.

Its easy to deviate from a plan… but if you have no plan to begin with, well ......!!!!

bbekalb wrote:the problem i see with using set reactive tactics are that others may know those same tactics, and possibly judge your actions. this worries me greatly. the other question is that standard wartime (if there is such a thing) is a whole diffferent animal then post clapse guerilla actions, or defensive measures. training ith a group is a good idea, but putting the sports veiw on, i'm not falling for the pumpfake twice.

You happen to be on American soil (or maybe not). Anybody that has ever been combat arms will have the basic rundown of tactics. Throwing our tried and true battle drills based on what someone else might know is going to get you killed. You can take the basic, say, chance contact and morph it a bit to fit what works best, but having the base knowledge is important. For me, and I recomend this for all, it will be extremely important to just break contact. I am not doing military patrols, I am evacuating a chaotic and dangerous situation. If my family and I take fire, chances are, if it's a good volume, I will return fire and begin backing out of the area, making sure my family is first to get to a safer spot. After that, we'll simply find another way through or around. I'm not going to screw around with fighting through anything. My family is far more important to me than letting myself needlessly become engaged. I'll avoid any violent contact at all if I can help it.

"Standard Wartime" and "Guerilla fighting" for anybody but convential military is one and the same. I would not bother getting wrapped around this part unless there is reason for fighting a war of any sort, and there may very well be, but remember that you are first trying to get you and yours to safety, speaking on bugging in or out.

And don't get wrapped around terminology either. I say Battle Drill because something is an automatic reaction to a threat. You could simply say drills, such as we have drills for what if there is a house fire even here and now. What do we do in case of someone attempting to enter the home for maybe a home invasion. Not everything is combat oriented. A drill could be anything that you need an automatic response to.

For example, my family knows that if I set off the fire alarm and yell FIRE, they check the door to their room, and if it's not hot they quickly but no running, go to the front door and out, and we all meet at the end of the driveway. Contingency is if the door is hot, you go out your window, then out the back gate, and to the end of the drive way. It's done enough so that if you have to do it under stress, you don't have much to think about, you simply do it.

Same thing with earthquake drills. Get to a safe spot to ride it out. Then everyone goes to the end of the driveway while I shut off power and gas. Once we know that these things are shut off, I will then check foundation and if it looks OK, we go back in and wait until local utility company comes and checks for leaks.

You can "War game" anything, and make drills out of anything. Heck, your morning routine is a drill if you think about it. You wake up at x time, then do whatever it is you do,make coffee, brush teeth, grab the paper or go online and check news while you have your breakfast. Breakfast complete, time for shower and change clothes if need be, off to work.