{"id":57529,"date":"2022-09-10T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=57529"},"modified":"2022-09-10T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:00:04","slug":"al-tarmiyah-firefight-lessons-learned-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/al-tarmiyah-firefight-lessons-learned-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"AL TARMIYAH FIREFIGHT!: Lessons Learned The Hard Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57532\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/09\/marine.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"541\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swatmag.com\/article\/al-tarmiyah-firefight-lessons-learned-hard-way\/\">AL TARMIYAH FIREFIGHT!: Lessons Learned The Hard Way<\/a><\/h1>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Excellent article about Practical Combat Rifle Skills we need to keep sharp as civilians:<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Assuming I killed the bad guy with one shot to the torso area<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Performing a slow reload<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Retaining my empty magazine during the middle of such an intense firefight<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Stowing an empty magazine in the same location as my fresh magazines<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Looking down at my weapon while reloading<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Having my rifle in the Low Ready while reloading<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Standing bladed and not taking advantage of my ballistic plates<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55848\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/07\/uvalde5.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL TARMIYAH FIREFIGHT!: Lessons Learned The Hard Way Excellent article about Practical Combat Rifle Skills we need to keep sharp as civilians: &nbsp; Assuming I killed the bad guy with one shot to the torso area Performing a slow reload Retaining my empty magazine during the middle of such an intense firefight Stowing an empty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1307,2378,3172,1286,397,398,399,484,401,403,4418,10,404,405,1897,3321],"tags":[14827,14828,1050,14829],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}