Most of your Strategies going to be organized on-the-fly with your teammates via headset. Regardless, there are simple cornerstone tactics that can determine life or death.
Use your grenades! So many players have died because they trust their bullets more than brains. IF you're sure there's an enemy within your perimeters, dont try to flank them, just throw a grenade over there and chances are they'll either be blown to pieces or will fall down making it easier to pick them off. Smoke grenades are also a very handy thing. You can easily flush out snipers in a certain area, or just provide cover for your team. Think there's someone camping? Before charging at them, throw a flashbang, which will make their vision pure white so they can't see anything at all, not even arms-width away. Then you simply walk up to them and pop a cap in their ass. Grenades are so useful, I can't even press it enough. They're easy to use, have a large disaster radius, and are extremly lethal. You might die a few times while learning, but dont get discouraged because once the learning hump is overcome, you're set.
Move Around:Close-combat shooting is quick, fierce and ivevitable. There isnt much time to think, so your reflexes are going to come into play more than wits. Probaly the biggest thing to do is to pan back and forth while shooting the opponent. Being a still target isn't a good thing, and it's much less work on their part. So be slippery and move around while taking fire at point-blank range.
Watch Everything: Many Times SOCOM will require brains which deeply comes into play. If you're on your own, or with only one other teammate, don't just walk in a linear line. look left, look right, and definitely look behind you. Zoon in, check places where enemies could possibly be, you know, the whole nine yards. Lots of enemies could come from directly behind you, so make sure you're constantly checking your rear. If you have friendly trailing you, tell them to cover you while you run through any area. Never, ever, run in a directly straight line for too long. If you do, you're asking to be killed, and chances are that's what's going to happen. This is particularly important for sniping-- don't just hang in one spot without looking around. Staying zoomed in for more than 10 seconds at a time on one spot is a bad thing, don't be caught.
Aim High: Yes, it does matter where you shoot your enemy. If you're aiming at there feet, chances are you'll wind up dead. Aim around their chest and head for better survival. Targeting in close-range can be a problem in SOCOM, but it eventually becomes a second nature.
