Murphy’s Laws of Combat

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MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT

        1.   You are not a Superman

        2.   If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid

        3.   When in doubt, empty your magazine

        4.   Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you

        5.   Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you

        6.   Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder

        7.   If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush

        8.   No plan survives the first contact intact

        9.   Don't look conspicuous - it draws fire  (This is why 
        aircraft carriers are called "bomb magnets")

        10.  If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed toward you

        11.  Try to look unimportant - they may be low on ammo

        12.  All five second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds

        13.  If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall 
        short

        14.  The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack

        15.  Recoilless rifles -aren't

        16.  Suppressive fire - won't

        17.  Friendly fire - isn't

        18.  If the enemy is in range, SO ARE YOU!

        19.  The important things are always simple

        20.  The simple things are always hard

        21.  The easy way is always mined

        22.  If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat

        23.  When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy

        24.  Anything you do can get you shot, including doing nothing

        25.  Teamwork is essential, it gives them other people to shoot at

        26.  Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get 
        out

        27.  Incoming fire has the right of way

        28.  No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection

        29.  No inspection-ready unit has ever passed combat

        30.  Ambushes never draw the enemy, NDPs do

        31.  Tracers work both ways

        32.  Beer math is:  two beers times 37 men equals 49 cases

        33.  Body count math is: two guerrillas plus one portable plus two 
        pigs equals 37 enemy killed in action

        34.  The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire

        35.  If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will 
        have more than your fair share of objectives to take (precedent generates expectations)

        36.  Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately

        37.  When both sides are convinced that they are about to lose, they're 
        both right

        38.  All-weather air support does not work in bad weather

        39.  The bursting radius of a hand-grenade is always one foot greater 
        than your jumping range

        40.  The only terrain you actually control is the terrain covered 
        by your two feet

        41.  Man-portable designated equipment never says how many men

        42.  The law of the bayonet says the man with the bullet wins

        43.  REMFs are everywhere

        44.  Precision bombing is normally accurate within plus or minus 
        one mile

        45.  Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full 
        of    amateurs

        46.  The best tank killer is another tank; therefore, tanks are always
fighting each other and have no time to fight the war

        47.  Murphy was a grunt

Murphy's Laws of Combat taken from "www.snipersparadise.com"

Edited by uruz6 - 21 August 2006 at 10:31am