Then LtGen Mattis, when he came under fire, dismounted his HMMWV and led a frontal assault on the attackers. A Lieutenant General. Conducting a fire team rush. No kidding. I am the secondary source. The primary is my former boss.
My favorite Frontal Attack Story was from DS.
7 Americans were “advising” a battalion from some Arab army. They were, a young ARNG infantry captain,
an old 11B E-7,
a Spec-4 HMMWV driver - RTO,
a USAF Captain air weapons director (FO),
his brother who was a USN doctor who didn’t want to miss the big show, who, on the eve of the invasion, went AWOL from some rear area USN post in south Saudi to be with his brother,
their E-3 USAF driver - RTO,
and a certain JAG 0-5 (a former law partner) who never really had any good explanation why he was forward of the Line of Departure, other than he had a CIB from Vietnam and wanted to win one....
They come upon a well dug in Iraqi army leg infantry battalion. The “good” Arabs all ran south. The 7 Americans said, what the hell, we can only die once, and did a “High Diddle Diddle - Right Up The Middle” with nothing more than M-16s.
The Iraqis panicked, abandoned their positions and all ran north, right into the “welcoming arms” of the British 1st Armored Division.
Riding in mech vehicles in Iraq and Afghan is idiotic as we taught the Mujahideen to blow up every Russian track vehicle from Infantry to tanks, The Russian left Afghan with the MSR’s and side roads littered with blown up vehicles. We have repeated that mistake. I could not believe the marines in Afghan after two SF teams lead both the Northern Alliance and Karzai to Kabul. The marines just created enemies.