Originally Posted by EvilTwin
Hand to hand as a soldier are over very quickly. You either make your kill or you are killed.


Years ago, I took Tai Kwon Do classes from a former ROK instructor and Vietnam vet.

Since we knew he had combat experience, we would pester him with questions about real fighting instead of what he was teaching us.

One day, pressed to give an opinion as to how a man wins a fight when he is up against an opponent of equal skill, he told us the man who gets in the first blow will usually win.