As they come in from Sam, here are some photos from the training weekend. No faces mostly (for anonymity), apart from mine:  Above: Individual debrief day 1: Reaction Drills (RTR).  Above: Day 1: Individual Reaction Drills: Contact Front  Above: Day 1: Individual Reaction Drills: Contact Left: Return Appropriate Fire after taking cover (simulated by kneeling […]

I’m just back in front after the computer after an enjoyable training weekend with, as usual, a great bunch of people. In fact, it’s never been any different; at no point have I had anyone attend the course who was not a good decent person. I just posted a couple of AARs from the weekend, […]

Company: Max Velocity TacticalCourse: Combat Rifle / Contact DrillsInstructor: Max Location: Romney, WVDates: July 20-21Website: http://www.maxvelocitytactical.com/Consultancy.html I recently attended Max’s Combat Rifle class in West Virginia with 7 other patriots.  The class was a representation of what makes this country great.  Ages of the participants ranged from late 20s to early 60s, and professions were just as varied (everything from active […]

First off, I’ll say that I decided to write this post because I was looking at WRSA as I do every day and saw a link over to a post by Mountain Guerrilla HERE on ‘Patrolling for Preparedness’. It’s really good stuff and I could not agree more. (Along with the video of Civil War veterans doing […]

I wrote a post titled ‘More Detail on Rucking Fitness’ which ended up devolving into a series of personal experiences on UKSF selection. Given the interest in that post and the general interest in the topic of ‘rucking’ and fitness it was suggested that a more objective look at these standards and techniques would be useful: […]

I posted previously about ‘Tactical Mobility – How it might affect you’ and I have also written about realistic PT for light infantry style operations. The Tactical Mobility post led onto another discussion, carried on a little in comments, about realistic times for ruck marching and similar. I am writing now to clarify that a little. […]

This post is gong to be deliberately simplistic and lacking in ballistic charts. The purpose is just to advocate to you the benefits, in my opinion, of the 100 meter (or yard if you insist, as it does not make a world of difference in practical terms) zero for a 5.56 AR style platform. I […]

I may have been mistaken about the reason behind the numbers on the July and August training weekends. Apparently it is not concerns about the heat that have kept people away, but simply that July is not a good month to schedule training. Next year, I will likely leave July off the schedule. The August […]

In the military sphere, one of the problems that any kind of air deployed dismounted force faces is a lack of tactical mobility. Such forces, deployed by parachute or even dropped off after an amphibious landing, have great strategic mobility but once on the ground they are limited by how far and fast they can […]