Guys get back on topic, and get along or move on.
Thank you for that, and I appreciate the nudge, since my statement was completely on topic. I regret that someone else decided to politicize it.
Why was it on topic? Why did I mention police? Because that soldier in the video getting completely overwhelmed by someone 15' away is completely realistic. Major police departments and U.S. Federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. train on these exact scenarios time and again, both in 360 degree computer training simulators, as well as live action with role players, using skilled knife and club wielders. That 15 feet is well within the 21 feet that is the reaction space needed. Less than 50% of officers are able to get a shot off at an attacker at less than 21 feet, and 14% of those are accurate hits even among trained individuals. Until one faces this life and death scenario, with adrenalin flowing, which severely restricts vision and fine motor skills, you cannot possibly comprehend why in the game that soldier is overwhelmed from a 15 foot charge.
Which brings me to soldiers. The perception was voiced earlier that police involvement in such situations is a bad example because it was implied their training is less than soldiers. It is, on certain subjects. A platoon of soldiers and a platoon of cops, both told to assault an objective and occupy it will see the soldiers do much better. Soldiers however, do not receive that kind of close-in training firearms training. Only a very few in the U.S. at least, consisting of Military Police and elite SpecOps forces receive close in combat training like that on a regular basis, and for the SpecOps forces, it is as an aggressor, like the sniper in the game, not as on on the receiving end of a charge. So, to hold up soldiers as a paragon of training and assume they would not be overwhelmed like that is uninformed outsider fallacy, from lack of actual experience and training. People would be surprised at the level of training of the majority of troops in any modern nation. This was magnified in the WW2 scenario of the game, with specialized training being even less.
So you see, I politicized nothing. I offered up THE single best example of the group that is most trained for these situations, and is still woefully in danger at distances of 15 feet.
