A little on the application of Break Contact drills. This one look familiar?: I didn’t make this stuff up….I just added my flavor. OP Break Contact drills – fighting out of a compromised OP: Here’s your PT motivation. Thnk I give out bollockings? Max

Yes! Love it! I’m working on the MVT N-grip – it takes the C-grip and makes it even better, by moving the support hand from the 9 o’clock position round to the 12 o’clock position. It helps to counter muzzle rise in recoil, and results in faster follow up shots. It means you can’t see […]

I posted yesterday the following: ‘More Tactical Ignorance + Oathkeepers‘ ‘Info from over the transom: Justin Giles of OathKeepers‘ More has come in since. Its veering a little towards the Bundy Ranch fiasco. 1) This one came in with the following quote: “I was up at Bundy Ranch.  Oath Keepers used it as a cash […]

Combat Patrol Class August 30-Sept 1: Jon R T After reading and hearing directly from MVT alumni about the value of repeating training at MVT, I decided to repeat the Combat Patrol class. The environmental differences between my two experiences in CP were significant. During the day the temperature was in the mid 80’s as […]

It has been a day of rants. Taking out the trash. Let’s end on a better note: Courtesy of Matt Best (MBest11x on YouTube – those are tacticool videos you are allowed to watch):    

Paras in Northern Ireland 1970’s, based on a book by the same name. Good training movie, old school. It is based in the rural areas in South Armagh, near the border with the Republic, known as ‘bandit country.’ Before we were in Iraq, before we were in Afghanistan, before we were in the Balkans, we […]

I have four spaces available on the September 28 – October 3 6 day combined CRCD / Combat Patrol Class. This class is also running Combat Lifesaver (TC3) on September 27, due to most of the class having signed up for it. Class Schedule  

This topic raised itself in comments on the post: ‘Gear: My Operational Loadout: Chris.’ I did comment on the post itself: This hearing protection thing perplexes me a little. The advent of decent electronic hearing protection that actually amplifies sound, and thus helps you hear, is a real help. If you are in vehicles, wearing […]

I have had a trickle of nervous MVT SHIELD customers over the last few days, sending me emails. If you paid for it by PayPal or Check/MO then you are on the list and it is being made. Many completed MVT SHIELDS  have been shipped out already; the team are working hard to get over the […]

I have just posted the 2015 Class Schedule through to July. Class Schedule The new 3 day Combat 2 Gun (C2G)  is scheduled. August is when we are aiming to bring two new classes online: 1) Night Fighting (NF): this is going to be designed as a progression class to Combat Patrol / NODF where the activity takes […]