{"id":2392,"date":"2015-01-07T22:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2015-01-07T22:58:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:58:39","slug":"the-rules-of-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"The Rules of Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>If the enemy is in range, so are you.<\/li>\n<li>Incoming fire has the right of way.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t look conspicuous: it draws fire.<\/li>\n<li>The easy way is always mined.<\/li>\n<li>Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.<\/li>\n<li>Professionals are predictable, it&#8217;s the amateurs that are dangerous.<\/li>\n<p><li>The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions:<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re ready for them.<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re not ready for them.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<li>Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t remember, the claymore is pointed at you.<\/li>\n<li>If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t draw fire, it irritates the people around you.<\/li>\n<li>The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.<\/li>\n<li>When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.<\/li>\n<li>If it&#8217;s stupid but works, it isn&#8217;t stupid.<\/li>\n<li>When in doubt empty the magazine.<\/li>\n<li>Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.<\/li>\n<li>Anything you do can get you shot. Including doing nothing.<\/li>\n<li>Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can&#8217;t get out.<\/li>\n<li>Mines are equal opportunity weapons.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t ever be the first, don&#8217;t ever be the last and don&#8217;t ever volunteer to do anything.<\/li>\n<li>The quartermaster has only two sizes: too large and too small.<\/li>\n<li>Five second fuses only last three seconds.<\/li>\n<li>It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the enemy is in range, so are you. Incoming fire has the right of way. Don&#8217;t look conspicuous: it draws fire. The easy way is always mined. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo. Professionals are predictable, it&#8217;s the amateurs that are dangerous. The enemy invariably attacks on one of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[395,1279],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mil","tag-combat","tag-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}