"Realistic Combat" is a fancy way to say no two conflicts will ever be the same.
I don't normally wear a ballistic helmet strapped on my head but I wouldn't be caught dead without one in certain theatres of "realistic" COMBAT...
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"In all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms - and these the best and the sharpest - for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."
James Paterson |