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Originally Posted by fredj338
Pretty sure in boot camp the theme is kill the enemy. Wounding is fine but killing means they are out of the fight never to return.
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Don’t know about boot camp (Marines), but when I was in Basic Training (Army) at the very end of Vietnam, the idea that wounding takes four out of the fight was brought up. Not as a goal, just a fact.
In basic marksmanship training, I don’t recall the cadre ever talking about either killing or wounding. Just hit the damn silhouette and knock it down. I always thought it was amazing that in a couple weeks they could teach you to reliably hit man-sized silhouettes at 400 meters using iron sights with an M-16.
In bayonet/pugel training we probably screamed something about closing with and killing the enemy. Been a long time.
That was at Fort Polk. Maybe the other Basic Training locations did things differently.