Above Max (MVT) & JC (MDT) at this weekend’s Combat Patrol Class I’m just back at my computer after this past weekend’s Combat Patrol Class. On this class, night movement posed more of a challenge, specifically for the night reconnaissance patrol portion of the tactical exercise. The background to this is that there was a starlit […]

March 15-16 CRCD Class AAR Alright, I know I’m more than a little late, but I finally got myself squared away after moving to Kentucky. A little about me, just so you understand where I am coming from in my assessment of the class. I finished 8 years in the Army the day I drove […]

In my previous post ‘Mental Preparation for Combat’ I stress the need to training and mental preparation for combat. When I teach combat lifesaver (TC3) I stress how hard it is to evacuate a casualty. Today I am going to post some video clips from YouTube that I hope will help make this point. The essential need for: Effective Training, including: Battle Inoculation & Stress […]

I have written a lot about mentally preparing yourself for combat/self-defense situations. Recently, I wrote an article titled: ‘On War‘ on April 22, which further discussed some of these subjects. I notice that Mountain Guerrilla wrote a post on May 7 titled: ‘Developing a Pre-Disposition For Effective Violence‘ and its good to see him jumping in […]

This two day class is running but it is not full. Combat Rifle Manipulation (CRM). I added the class after an observation of students in training and what would benefit them. The square range has been built and the class added specifically to address training shortfalls. Aaron is running this class. Combat Rifle / Combat Drills (CRCD) […]

AAR: Rifle Manipulation Primer (RMP) 2 May – BC Having completed the TC3 and CRCD classes on the weekend of May 3 / 4, I wanted to give special mention to Max’s newest addition to the training cadre, Aaron. Aaron has recently started to provide training in the MVT camp, and he is an outstanding […]

AAR: Combat Rifle / Contact Drills (CRCD) 3/4 May –BC  There have been many excellent AARs concerning the Combat Rifle/Contact Drills class written in the last few months.  In fact I reviewed many of them in making my decision to attend the class May ¾.  The earlier reports have all been very detailed, and that’s […]

MV: Combat Lifesaver (TC3) is offer as a morning block of instruction the day prior to CRCD classes, including the combined 5 day classes. The afternoon comprises Rifle Manipulation Primer (RMP) Training. Class Schedule AAR: Combat Lifesaver (TC3) 2 May – BC I recently had the good fortune to take Max’s newly offered Combat Lifesaver (TC3) class. I was excited when I first saw the addition […]

Do you remember this post and video: *VIDEO* Thermal Shield Test by Apache FLIR – Pass!? Well, at the request of those that made and sent me the video, I have taken the video down. I hope you watched it while you had the chance! UPDATE: There has been a flurry of activity today as it […]

More tacticool awesomeness! On a serious note however, notice how although these guys are making a comedy video, they are still firmly rooted in the ‘tacticool’ meme in everything they do. But, the ‘mag flip’ is a real technique. See ‘Rifle Stoppage Drills‘: Common First Step: If you are firing your weapon and it fails to […]