Close Combat

Close combat means a violent physical confrontation between two or more opponents at short range.

Read more about Close Combat:  Armed and Unarmed Confrontations, Tactical Doctrine

Famous quotes containing the words close and/or combat:

    “Monte Beragon: When I’m close to you like this, there’s a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
    Mildred Pierce: No, what?
    Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy’s.
    Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.”
    —Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)

    “If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
    —Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)