1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
2. Incoming fire has the right of way.
3. Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire.
4. The easy way is always mined.
5. Try to look unimportant, they may be low
on ammo.
6. Professionals are predictable, it's the
amateurs that are dangerous.
7. The enemy invariably attacks on one of two
occasions:
A. When you're ready for them.
B. When you're not ready for them.
8. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy
someone else to shoot at.
9. If you can't remember, the claymore is
pointed at you.
10. If your attack is going well, you have
walked into an ambush.
11. Don't draw fire, it irritates the people
around you.
12. The only thing more accurate than
incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
13. When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is
not our friend.
14. If it's stupid but works, it isn't
stupid.
15. When in doubt empty the magazine.
16. Never share a fox hole with anyone braver
than you.
17. Anything you do can get you shot.
Including doing nothing.
18. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in
and you can't get out.
19. Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
20. A Purple Heart just proves that were you
smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to
survive.
21. Don't ever be the first, don't ever be
the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything.
22. The quartermaster has only two sizes: too
large and too small.
23. Five second fuses only last three
seconds.
24. It is generally inadvisable to eject
directly over the area you just bombed.
