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Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha
Realistically, people drop, fully unconscious, due to any loss of blood pressure to the brain.
A typical blood choke knocks someone completely out in 3-6 seconds, depending on how well it's applied.
A throat slash which severs wind pipe and carotid arteries will drop any sentry unconscious in under a second, and the wind pipe slash makes them unable to speak while they bleed out unconsciously.
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Ideally, yes. Practically speaking, the process might take longer and it's best to retain a grapple for more than a second.
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Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha
A thrust to the base of the brain through the spine, paralyses and drops the sentry unconscious, while he bleeds out.
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If perfectly executed, it would. On the other hand, most literature on the subject discourages the practice, due to the difficulty involved. The few soldiers I've met who talk about their sentry removal training consider the method so difficult as to be more suitable for movies than reality.
As far as I know, it's not taught as part of standard doctrine in any Western military. Of course, the individual gung-ho instructor might differ, but in general, the precision and strength required is just not practical for normal people.
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Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha
The sentry suffers Total Surprise and in most cases gets an AoA Double by the attacker who grapples and attacks on the same turn.
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Yes. And after the initial stab, moving the knife around is another All-Out Attack (Double).
After that, however, the attacker will retain a grapple that reduces the amount of noise the sentry can make as he waits for unconsciousness to result and until he is certain that the sentry is truly out. Then he can lower him down to the ground.