You’re a right-handed shooter, heading fast toward a target building. Shifting left, you’re the first man coming up on an alleyway, and you need to protect your teammates behind you. What you do next can determine the outcome of the mission.
Do you transition your weapon to your support side? Will your sling even let you? Is your communications switch attached to your left shoulder? Can you effectively reload off your kit, support side only? Or do you eat sh*t, take the alleyway with your strong side and expose 50 percent of your body?
The answer that you should be able to give is to transition the weapon to your support side, because your sling is properly adjusted and your kit and all its attachments allow the manipulation of both carbine and pistol from either side. You post up, lock down the alleyway with your weapon from your support side in order to limit exposure of your soft, juicy parts—with full confidence in your ability to operate your white light and laser. Your team successfully moves across, relying on you to cover them with accurate and effective fire.
I still hear the word
