Double Tap - WTF

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Re: Double Tap - WTF

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I'll be damned. You're right. Oh well. Thanks, Wikipedia.

Ignore me and carry on with your discussion then.
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ajet32 wrote:Ah @#$! i can't even respond to this sheit without getting the thread closed. I am all about security and such, but a big BUT for those who know me wtf was this cop doing killing an unarmed guy who threw a rock at him. We used to have daily rock throwing matches at the UN base in Bukavu, hell in Kalemie and in Nyala too. Nobody shot at the rock throwers there and for the most part they had AK 47's the favourite weapon of the world wide terrorist etc etc etc!!!
@#$! people grow up!! It was a friggin rock !!
Somehow, I think your reaction would have been different if a guy charged you from 15 ft away instead of throwing a rock for 100 feet away.

Use your head. A rock is a weapon. He was armed, and attacked the cop from close range. This wasn't some idiot throwing a rock to provoke a reaction.
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Finally!!!!

Col Applegate!!!

His doctrine is a little dated. See MCMAP for current ass kicking methods.
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Redneck_pilot86 wrote:He was probably a Zombie...you ALWAYS double tap a zombie.


blahhaaaa ha ha ha ha too funny to read that late night lol
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Meatservo wrote:I think you guys are missing the point of the original post... The reporter writing the article actually used the term "double tapped". Liquid Charlie was commenting on the way ghetto-speak has penetrated popular lexicon to the point where it's being used by reporters in print. Hip-Hop strikes again. Yo. Liquid Charlie be axin 'yall what you fink of dat whack language, not whether 'yall wulda double tapped the mofo yo' fine selfs.
I don't know about "double tapped" being hip hop. I remember that term from when I was in the army and I got out in '73.
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The Old Fogducker wrote:
I was taught to fire twice immediately, assess the threat for a fraction of a second, and then continue firing until the other guy is on the ground and not moving. Then too, most of the time I carried a 9 mm Sub Machine Gun (SMG) with a 30 round magazine, not a little 6 or 7 round pop-gun.

Was it a Sterling or a Sten? I think I know you OFD, and I am trying to pin down the era. :D






















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Aerobat:

When I was in the first time, 65 to 70, I started with the Sten and the 1L and 2L series of FN, but the Sten was withdrawn fairly quickly after I joined, and replaced by the Sterling as they became available. When we'd be on schemes with the Reg Forces, I'd eye their Sterlings with a lot of envy.

The second time in, '77 to 84, was of course all Sterling C-1 and the 4L series of FN, but as the CO's personal RADOP, it was the Sterling that I really came to enjoy working with. My CO was a superb shot with the Sterling, pretty much every single time taking first place on the range, and I was right behind him in second place. We used to comment that if we ever surrounded back-to-back, there would be a big pile of them around us before we "bought it."

He used to be a nice guy ... most of the time anyway, and had a good way of describing what my priorities were:

1- Keep yourself alive.
2- Get the message through.
3- Keep the CO alive.

The difficulty with "The Three Commandments" the order was always changing at any one particular moment, and keeping "Sunray" happy depended on a mind-reading game of figuring out which was number one at any particular second.

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Here's an intrepid Radio Operator (RADOP) with the Sterling.  You'll note the obviously visible radio on the fella's back and the antenna, which a few of us used to call "the shoot me first flag."
Here's an intrepid Radio Operator (RADOP) with the Sterling. You'll note the obviously visible radio on the fella's back and the antenna, which a few of us used to call "the shoot me first flag."
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The Sterling 9 mm Sub Machine Gun (SMG.) This one is well-used and could use a trip to the armourer to be reblued....you wouldn't want the sun reflecting off that stock ... you may as well be flashing a signalling mirror at somebody, saying "Here I am, come and get me."
The Sterling 9 mm Sub Machine Gun (SMG.) This one is well-used and could use a trip to the armourer to be reblued....you wouldn't want the sun reflecting off that stock ... you may as well be flashing a signalling mirror at somebody, saying "Here I am, come and get me."
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