Originally Posted by
Thekatar
First off: this is NOT about James Yeager/Tactical Response.
I want to start a discussion of the concept of moving off the line of force, commonly called "getting off the x"...
I have some opinions, but I want to hear what you out there think first.
Is this technique always appropriate? Is it oversold by those instructors who teach it? Can it be a detriment? What does "getting off the x" actually mean? How does shooting-on-the-move reconcile with moving off the line of force?
This should be an interesting thread. I've seen and practiced this technique a few times and it is a valid response. It is a natural instinct to get out of harms way, especially gun fire, so the technique does build on that aspect. Is the technique always appropriate? That would be situationaly dependent on the immediate cover available (vs caught in the open) and at what distance you'd have to move to get to that cover. If you'd have to move, then you would indeed be getting off the X.
Quite a few years ago, in a class watching "Stickup videos" where the BG robbed a merchant, the merchant draws a weapon, BG shoots at merchant, merchant returns fire, kills BG or both empty their weapons. In everyone of those vids, neither person stood still. Each was firing while moving and ducking for cover. Most shot at each other, hitting everything but each other, finally, the BG runs out or either gets lucky and shoots the other. Both were trying to get off the X, or each others last known location/kill zone. It also validates shooting on the move and point shooting at close range, which was why I was in the class to begin with.
Again, is the technique always appropriate? That would depend on your situation and how quickly you detect the threat, how your decision making process allows you to deal with that threat, based on cover available AND how fear/shock, affects your ability to deal with that threat (Move and shoot VS going into the Freeze/Sheepel mode) I think any technique which follows natural instinct can only up your odds in surviving such an encounter. Can it be a detriment? I'm sure doing anything, to include doing nothing, will be a detriment, but at least this technique will IMHO, increase your odds in not getting killed.
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before! The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." - Rudyard Kipling
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