We are up on the 5 day combined CRCD/Combat Patrol Class right now. Today, during some live squad break contact drills, I snapped this pic of the squad at the rally point, pulling a hasty ambush in case of enemy follow up:   The instructor on the left is Chris. Live Hard. Die Free. Max […]

Max: Sam was ‘number 2 son’ of submariner’s four man (Dad plus 3 sons) fire team. He has some of the training out of sequence on the AAR below, in terms of what happens on each day, so I will insert comments appropriately:  Detail on the Combat Patrol class contents can be found on THIS PAGE. Sam Sends: Prior to taking this […]

The MVT Team pulls it out of the bag yet again. There will be follow on articles to this excellent one by Chris. Intro by Aaron: So with the addition of our NODF class, as well as the new NF class coming online, and a few other things in the works we need to talk […]

I have some space available on August CRCD and CRM classes. See here for the full class schedule. August: Aug 01: TC3 /RMP/ NODF Aug 02 –  06:  CRCD + Combat Patrol (Saturday – Wednesday) – see this post about this class – I have opened up the Combat Patrol part of the class as an optional  standalone class due to […]

I’m back! In comments on the post  ‘Student Review: 6 Day CRCD / Combat Patrol 28 Jun – 3 Jul: Submariner” was this comment by Submariner: _______________________________ I just posted the following 5 star review for Contact! at Amazon.com: “Fire and move! Fire and move! That’s the mantra of the infantryman and when it is […]

I posted HERE about ‘The Squad – Size & Organization‘. I advocated for a squad size of twelve or thirteen, with three four man teams. This generated a healthy discussion in comments. I am following up with this post in order to give you more depth on the WHY. There is a method to the […]

The intent today is to pass on a little more in formation on patrol bases. I was out on the Interwebz again and saw some of the usual re-posting of basic FM stuff. That’s all very well, but you need to add context, experience and common sense to give realistic background to what you are […]

This is an extract of some comments I made on a forum and the follow up. The background is that the envisaged scenario is more family survival in a WROL SHTF situation, rather than resistance operations against enemies ‘foreign or domestic’. See my earlier post on ‘tactical overnighting in the woods’ for a more operational […]

  Long Term Security and Defense of your Retreat Location: In this article for the final week of ‘52 Weeks for Preparedness’ I will discuss long term security and defense of your retreat location. We cannot predict now exactly what conditions will look like after a collapse and as such I urge you not to […]

I have had a couple of last minute reschedules out of the August 2-6 combined class. Although not full, the class was a healthy size, but it just took a hit. Last year the August class was undersold also. Last minute reschedules are a pain because, particulalry if the class has been marked as full […]