USMC & USN RULES OF GUN FIGHTING

USMC Rules for Gun Fighting

1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.

2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.

3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.

4. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough nor using cover correctly.

5. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.)

6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun.

7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.

8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running.

9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.

9.5. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. "All skill is in vain when an Angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket."

10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.

11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

12. Have a plan.

13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work.

14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible. The visible target should be in FRONT of your gun.

15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.

16. Don't drop your guard.

17. Always-tactical load and threat-scan 360 degrees.

18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them).

19. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.

20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.

21. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

22. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.

23. Your number one Option for Personal Security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.

24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun of which the caliber does not start with a "4".

25. Your primary goal in any gunfight should be to kill the other guy as far away from you as possible.

U.S. Navy Rules For Gun Fighting

1. Adopt an aggressive off-shore posture.

2. Send the Marines.

3. Drink Coffee.

Sorry MAC....funny as shizzznit!

By the sounds of this I think if I ever have to join a branch of military, it will be the Navy.

NGFS baby. Naval Gunfire SUPPORT. They (the Marines who are on shore getting shot at) tell us (the sailors drinking coffee, taking hot showers and eating hot meals) where to put the REALLY big bullets, and we put 'em there!!

I was taught the fundamentals of marksmanship by a Marine Staff Sergeant. I can shoot a flea's ass from 25 yards with a pistol.

I don't take offense to any ribbing like this. It's true.

But... I joined the Navy and not the Marines (or the Air Force or Army) because the Navy Recruiter was more motivated than the rest of them. He actually came and knocked on my door, sold me a line of bullsh*t, and signed me up.

No need to be sorry Gary. If there exists a more pussified branch of the military than the Navy, it is most certainly the Air Force.

Talk about a bunch of coddled lay-abouts... my goodness!

I was on Lackland for 2 months and NOBODY has it as easy as you guys. Which is why it is damn near impossible to advance up the ranks in the air force. It's such an easy job, nobody wants to get out!

LMAO rollllllin on the floor.

Got to love our brothers in arms..

MAC...there are some jobs I agree that are way to easy in the AF. I am sure there are the same in the Navy, Marines, and Army. It is all about what jobs needed to be filled when the recruiter got ahold of your young butt. I was in the Army for 10 years prior to crossing into the Blue. But each career field has it's ups and downs. Security Forces is one of the toughtest jobs the Air Force has especially if your mission is Air Base Defense like my unit. The only other job that I know of that is more demanding in the AF is PJ's. My hat goes off to them. HOOAH!

I am sure any person in any military branch can say they have jobs that are easy. But it's what you put into it and what you make of it.

I am putting myself in for a vacant Command Chief Position....keeping my finger crossed.

Gary aka Da Chief

I know exactly what you mean. I DID your Job in Souda Bay, Crete, Greece for a year. WE had to guard the flight line and the AF recon planes that landed and parked there.