Close Quarters Battle, Part 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fatal Funnel

Hallways present numerous tactical problems, since they tend to channel your team into a defined killzone with limited options for cover, if any. It is for this reason that going down a hallway is called "going through the fatal funnel".

Answer: Stairwells

Going up or down stairwells induces a lot of fatigue in the entry team, and every corner is a blind one. Stairwells can be a real nightmare. Closed doors are much easier, as they permit the team to pause and regroup before entering. Corridor intersections provide good cover, and office cubicle partitions are easy to approach while covering and can easily be peered over.

Answer: True

Whenever a bomb is involved, until the device can be examined, there is no way to know what the trigger is. It might be radio detonated... and if so, there is no way to know what frequency the detonator is tuned to. Therefore, radio transmissions are kept to an absolute minimum. The actual danger is small, but why take chances?

Answer: False

Although it is certainly preferred, it is not required in all situations. Sometimes, the callout is made immediately AFTER entry (i.e. "Police! Search warrant!" etc.) is made in order to preserve the element of surprise. However, in all situations, it is required that the entry team identify themselves as police officers before making contact with any suspects.

Otherwise, any return fire they receive might legitimately be claimed as self-defense.

Answer: Breacher

The Breacher is the man who makes things go boom. He is the man who sets the breaching charges to blow down doors. Typically, he will carry a shotgun of some sort (the most popular in the US for this role being the Benelli M3 Super 90), often loaded with so-called lockbuster rounds for blowing the hinges off of doors.

Answer: balaclava

Not to be confused with the tasty pastry dish baklava, a balaclava is similar to a ski-mask, but specifically it has only one hole for eyes and nose, instead of individual holes. Tactical balaclavas are made from fire-resistant Nomex.

Answer: Yes

MOUT, or Military Operations on Urban Terrain, refers to combat conditions in a city or town. By its very nature, MOUT involves a lot of CQB, or Close-Quarters Battle. Units conducting MOUT combat frequently find themselves inside buildings or in narrow alleys, where CQB occurs.

Answer: Versapod

A Versapod is a specially designed removable bipod. In CQB environments, an operator is rarely going to be in a position to deploy, much less use a bipod. A vertical foregrip allows the operator to make rapid target-to-target transitions. A 3-point sling allows the operator to release his primary weapon and go for a secondary without having to put the primary weapon away... it will simply hang in front of him.

A magazine clamp allows two magazines to be held together, ready for immediate reloading.

Answer: GSG-9

Germany's GSG-9, or Grenschutzgruppe-9, is technically the world's first dedicated counter-terrorist unit, formed in response to the kidnapping and killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. In the Mogadishu rescue, GSG-9 boarded Lufthansa flight 181 as it sat on the ground in Somalia.

After 5 minutes of action, the GSG-9 entry team had killed or captured all four terrorists. One GSG-9 member was lightly wounded, and ALL passengers were rescued unharmed.

Answer: A shooting technique wherein the shooter places two shots to the chest and one to the head.

The failure drill, sometimes called the "Mogadishu Drill" or "Mozambique Drill", is a method of ensuring that a target stays down. The first two shots to the chest are easier and quicker to make than a head shot, and are likely to cause even an armored assailant to stumble.

The final shot to the head is insurance... in case the first two to the body failed to drop the target. First developed in Mozambique by a Rhodesian mercenary named Mike Rousseau, the technique was perfected by GSG-9 during their 1977 airliner rescue in Mogadishu, previously discussed.

It has now become common practice.