IMO it depends on several factors. Those factors are based on shooter skill and the situation. I personally don't like to say "never say never and don't always say always". The higher the skill level and the more experience in the individual, the more options. When you are teaching large numbers of people with base level skills, dumbing things down or keeping things simple is often a function based out of necessity. In an ideal world, with all switched on individuals, you want to create thinkers and not just robotic like doers. If skill levels, time and resources are limited, then a KISS method is what works.
I thought, with a rifle, shoulder transitions were for working cover. Clearing rooms, especially a residential, or office building, you don't really have cover... at least around here.
Very situation dependent IMO.
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." Robert A. Heinlein
Surf made a profound point:
Proficiency gives options.
There are times that having the long gun in the support shoulder might give an edge. The caveat is that most units do not have the resources to devote to getting support side skill to an acceptable level.
That said, there most certainly are units that do, and that switch shoulders based on advantage, and not limited to use of support/cover.
When I was in SOI, they taught to shortstock and transition in certain circumstances in a hallway if we had a team taking a building, but when entering a room itself, we were all about pivots--and I dont mean as in drill movements.
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