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 |  Subject: Re: Taking cover behind a car  Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:14 am | |
| | Gauge wrote: | | Did the study happen to mention why people were failing to take defensive action when attacked in their vehicles? It would of course be silly to argue the fact that your chances of survival increase if you take action, so it is very curious that anyone would not do so. |
I heard about it as a Power Point presentation at a weeklong class these guys gave ( [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ), which was then followed up by practical exercises. In the case studies they discussed the people who didn't take action basically froze up and sat there getting killed. The guys who survived all immediately maneuvered their vehicles once they realized they were getting shot at, and basically drove away.
They picked the case studies to make a point, so I wouldn't argue it was scientific or anything. In one exercise the old car I was in had its engine block damaged trying to ram through another car and there was basically nothing to do but sit there and die in a hail of paintball fire or get out of the vehicle and die in a hail of paintball fire. Still it seemed like pretty sound advice in general.
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