You know the ones I mean. Where the commando squad or swat team cops are silently attacking and they give some simple fist and fingers hand signals to the other members of the term to tell them what… How may bad guys, where to attack… what do these signals mean?
Well, here’s a list of military hand signals, for starters. Most of these, however, are geared towards “conventional” warfare, not Commando/SWAT team type tactics.
From the experts, all the military hand-signals you could hope to learn.
FWIW, cops use 'em, regular soldiers use 'em, etc. Whenever you need to convey basic information when you can’t (or don’t want to) talk, hand signals do the deed.
A lot are common sense, I’d imagine. If SWAT Guy #1 peers around the corner and look to the bad guys, then turns to the group behind him a raises five fingers, guess how many bad guys he saw? When they send two guys off to do something with a flick of the wrist, it is likely a preplanned action or entry point, and they would then wait the signal to go in. What you see in the movies or news clips is the action part, not the hours of operational planning and contigency planning that goes on.
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