Post by BoW GaCAman on Mar 2, 2015 14:31:44 GMT -5
General James L. Dozier Kidnapping 1981/Drill
This incident lead to the creation of Jeff Cooper's 'Dozier Drill' www.usconcealedcarry.com/the-dozier-drill/ and 'Steakhouse Drill'.
Explanation of that one from Coop, himself:
"A reader called us in a state of some agitation resulting from an attempted armed robbery on his restaurant in Indiana. In the middle of the dinner session, a goblin wandered into the place with a pistol in his hand and demanded money from the cashier. At this point the owner (who is our correspondent) came around the corner with a 2.5-inch .357 in his hand, loaded with 125-grain JHP bullets. The owner ordered the intruder to drop his gun.
Nothing happened, whereupon the owner socked the intruder six times in the chest region with his .357. Still nothing happened. Unusually, the owner had extra ammunition, so he reloaded and socked this bird six more times in the chest. I asked him what the intruder was doing while he was being shot, and he said, “Nothing.” He neither dropped the gun, nor attempted to shoot it, nor attempted to get away. The owner then reloaded a third time, and by the time the intruder had fallen down, he had been hit 18 times! The range was about 15 feet.
The perpetrator in this case was so spaced out that his blood was sort of a green-orange color, according to reports. Those of you who have been here to school know about the Mozambique (double tap center of mass, then headshot) drill. The store owner had not."
James Lee Dozier (born April 10, 1931) is a retired United States Army officer. In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades Marxist militant group. He was rescued by NOCS, an Italian SWAT force, after 42 days of captivity. General Dozier was the deputy Chief of Staff at NATO's Southern European land forces headquarters at Verona, Italy. The Red Brigades, in a statement to the press, stated the reason behind kidnapping an American general was that the US and Italian governments had enjoyed excellent diplomatic relations and that Dozier was an American soldier invited to work in Italy, which justified their abduction. To date, Dozier is the only American flag officer to have been captured by a VNSA.