Below are the two most common.įace to the enemy and make a circle with the pointer and thumb. This signal is used to let the entire team silently know an enemy has been sighted. Do not draw the bottom line, that would be the sign for window. Use your pointer finger to draw a three sided rectangle in the air. This is to tell those around you a door has been spotted. Put your hand in a position as if you were holding a ball, fingers pointed to the sky #9. This is to inform those around you that a dog has been spotted or heard.ĭrop your arm down and slightly in front of you. This is to inform those behind you that they are to get into the prone position.įingers facing forward and palm to the earth, fan your hand as if to signal ‘down’. With your hand above your head point and notion to an area. This command is to inform the other person(s) to cover a specific area. Wave the hand back and forth to and away from your face. Make the hand signal “stop” but face the palm to you. You can specify a person individually if you point to them before the command. This command is to instruct an individual, or a group, to come to you. Move them closer and father from each other. Holding your hand at eye level, extend you pointer and piddle finger. This command tells the groups to change their formation and form two columns. The leader is the one who decides the course of action they take during movements and in a fire fight.Įxtend your middle three fingers, tucking the thumb and pinky behind them, and place them on the bicep of the opposite arm. This command is used to clarify who the leader of the fire team/group is. When at the point of where the breach will occur, point a single finger at the person who will lead the breach and then everyone gets in line around them. They will be the first through the door/doorway and begin the process of clearing the room/area. This command is used to determine who will be the “breacher” or point man. Take an empty (or partially empty) magazine, place it in your left hand, hold it at about eye level, and motion the magazine back and forth from left to right. You might use this hand signal if you’re low or completely out of ammunition. The ‘Ammunition’ hand signal lets others around you know that you are in need of another magazine of ammunition. This was just a poor decision, maybe from him trying too hard to be one of the guys with his men, and maybe just favoring (inadvertently) Toccoa men who he'd been with the longest and hazing the new guys.33 Military Hand Signals Explained #1. If he were just screwing around and trying to lose, he could have deliberately missed with his right hand or said he throws darts better with his left, but he didn't.Īnd again, I think his body of work speaks for itself: great leader, great man. After the final bet is made, Lutz then asks why he's shooting left handed when he's a righty, he then goes to nail the bullseye. Lutz is clearly in on it and working the bets.
I think you need to rewatch that scene, though.
To be clear, everybody laughed, and there was no harm done, it's clearly meant to show him being "one of the guys." My comments are more about him putting himself in a bad place, because if someone hadn't taken it as lightly as they did, I think Winters would have had to do something. I think he's generally a good guy, but he took advantage of his troops here in a way that Winters wouldn't have and wouldn't have allowed.
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