What exactly am i meant to do if i have someones back?

Answer 1

First of all, based on your question, I hope you have not agreed to "Have someone's back". But, seriously, like a lot of jargon, this is a bit of Special forces lingo, like "Good to Go?".

"Got your Back" was/is a serious statemnt of fact to the same inquiry "Got my Back" in which when you are moving forward / flanking in a combat situation - espcially a hot strike zone, like night fighting thru and occupied area in a room to room urban setting or similar "close in " enemy contact area and you are on point, then you are askling your spotter to do two things - backyou up, and the take up a rear guard position, so you both have opposite, (back to back overlapping) sweeping 5 point / 270 degree fields of fire. You as point are responsible to surveval the ground ahead over which you will both travel to spot mines, trip wires, booby traps, snares, and bells. (Snares & Bells are not necessarily exploives or even lethal they are often delaying tactcals, or audible defense warnings - and can be as simple as a can filled with some glass and pebbles balanced on a twig and a stone, set with a stick or branch trigget on the ground. You step on the branch, and the can tips over, and some glas and pebble roll out of the can - an innocent noise in an urban center, but you've jusr alerted the waitinf sniper as to where you are at, and he dosent have to se you at 50 yards in the dark to kill you, he is just waiting for a shadow to darken the reflected light in the reflection of a mirror set up twopaces ahead chest hit tied to the next tree trunk behind the trail you are on.

You are also Responsile for the area infront of you both, and on either side for 135 degrees right or left from dead center, (so both of your best vision for movement detection -your side eyevision overlaps 60 degrees. You also have the area from the Horizon to overhead, again best looked at head on with your eyes looking head on, and then by scanning the same area with your side eye vision - checking for movement of imperceptible shapes that are slightly out of place from where they should not be. - this second look is much more intuitive, and more like a "gut feeling:" and just as important to heed. In this case it pays off, in that the laying in wait sniper -while engaging a clever device for setting up his kill forgot to get out og the reflected light from his signal mirror, and when the pebble can was tripped he jerked up, (probably napping) to see what was going on - probably temporarily disorientated for a moment, and that's when he made his 2nd, 3rd, and last mistakes. 2nd Mistake was he jerked - 3rd he had not covered all shiney or reflective gun metal on his rifle, so I caught a brieg glimpse of an out of place sparkle of a reflection in a pool of utter darkness where it did not belong, - and if it doesn't belong - you kill it, before it has a chance to kill you. I did not give it a chance to harm either of us.

My parnter is there to take over the mission if I am killed, to help me if I am wounded and get me out if he can. He is also responsible to fight off attackers from the rear, from overhead behind us, and from the flanks as well, If I need help fighting forward , since I am right handed, he will always roll to my right, since I can aim & fire quicker firing right to left, He jknows my right ejector port pattern is forward right and downward ejecting, so as long as he gives me two meters between uw we both have plenty of room to ovelap our fields of fire, (bearing in mind that we are using automatic weapons for this mission, and not bolt action single shot sniper rifles.

So the erm was Originally was meant to mean something very serious, now a days it more or less a joke I think. I over heard two you mean in a pub the other night headed to the rail to get another mug of beer each, on said to the other 'Hey I'm going for a beer", and heads off in the direction of the bartender, the friend staggered behind calling "You bet I got yer Back". Now other that possibly throw up on his friend I have no idea what this fellow thought he was going to do for his friend if trouble broke out - make be wet himself?

Answer 2

Make an effort to protect and back them up in adversity.
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Answer 3

It means you will cover up for someone and stand by them no matter what.

Answer 4

It means that you will cover for or agree with anything that person says or does.

Answer 5

Protect them from unseen peril.

Answer 6

If there's any kind of conflict or trouble your right there for them.