Shoot and Scoot By Non-artillery Units
Shoot and scoot is also the name of the tactic used by infantry and other forces (e.g. light armoured recon elements) of immediately returning fire and then retiring on contact with the enemy. This is common practice with reconnaissance patrols whose main aim is information, not combat. Typically on contact each member of an infantry patrol will fire one magazine at the enemy and then retire to a pre-agreed rendezvous. The patrol may also drop counter chase deterrents such as mines and grenades behind them, or employ other weapons apart from their small arms, such as white phosphorus grenades (which produce smoke as well as incendiary/fragmentation effects) to break contact prior to or whilst retiring. Similarly, Iraqi insurgents used mortars placed in the beds of pickup trucks to fire mortars and leave the area before a response strike arrived.
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