Carrying on the recent theme of finding hugely outdated British Army training videos on YouTube, here is one from 1982: ‘Fighting in Woods‘. Unfortunately, there is only part one, the end of the video is missing. A great shame. There are a lot of good tips on tactics and techniques for an area defense in […]

Following on from the recent discussion of squad tactics in the ‘There will be no Theme Music‘ & ‘Using the Flank‘ posts, I found this gem of a video on YouTube (below). This video is very old school, I’m guessing 1970’s. However, it is well worth 35 minutes of your time, and it is worth […]

WHAT: Combat Rifle /Contact Drills Class WHERE: West Virginia mountains. WHEN: 14/15SEP WHO:  -Instructor-Max Velocity. The consummate professional soldier and excellent instructor who is also a gracious host. -Students-12 Patriots with ages ranging from early 30’s to early 60’s (including one woman). Some were prior military, most were not. -Me- 40 year Army Reserve officer. […]

THERE WILL BE NO THEME MUSIC What is my point? It is this: ‘IT’ will never happen when you expect it to happen. Expect ‘dislocation of expectations’. Expect surprise. Be aware of the danger of denial. You may be taking a dump over a cat hole out in the woods with your pants down around your ankles, when ‘Contact!’ is shouted. […]

In case you missed it, I have added a new training weekend for the CRCD Class on October 26/27. This is due to popular demand and the fact that the October 12/13 and November 9/10 classes have filled up. The primary demand has come from CRCD Alumni who want to return before Christmas with family/friends/team […]

I received the following question by email: In one of your previous articles on gear carriage, you mentioned that the Paras were expected to be able to survive with what they carried on their battle belts (for 48-72 hours, if I remember correctly). I simply don’t have room for foodstuffs as I have mine set […]

Following up from the discussion generated in comments about what to do with casualties in my recent SHTF Combat Casualty Post I am posting a link to an interest piece on Wikipedia about the Chindits, which was an original Special Force raised and used in India/Burma in the Second World War. HERE is the Link […]

MVT Training Review – September 14/15 2013 I completed my second training course with Max on the weekend of September 14/15.  I attended my first training course in July and knew then I’d be back for more.  After initially reading Max’s Contact book earlier this year, his training seemed like the logical next step, so I signed up for the […]

On my CRCD class, I don’t have time to do a full class on TC3 (Tactical Combat Casualty Care). However, what I do is give a few pointers as to how causalities will fit into the game in a real SHTF contact situation. I’m going to try and replicate some of those pointers here: (For […]

I attended the September 14/15 session of Max’s CRCD course. Of the 12 participants, almost all were career civilians like myself with a few military veterans.  It was a good group that was motivated to learn. We all had a similar focus – to prepare ourselves to protect our families from danger. I came in with a […]