Updated Training Opportunities

Over at My Website

Copied here:

7 responses to “Updated Training Opportunities”

1. Max those cammies suck in the Eastern Hardwood Ecosystem. They are damn near as bad(in that photo)as UPC greys. To my mind Cadpat, woodland, Marpat and brown Dom. ERDL all work better east of the Mississippi river, in the lower 48. What do you think?–Ray

   • Well…the pants and patrol pack are multi-cam, the shirt is simple green. They are all actually extensively covered in local mud – I had been both digging mud out of an old spring/well and rolling around a bit that day, so the main color you see is local mud. Often, depending on the weather conditions, camo clothing becomes obscured by dirt/mud on operations – that is in fact what made the current ACUs slightly more tolerable before multi-cam came in for Afghanistan – being dirty made them a little harder to see.
     You can have perfect camo for the area you operate in, or you can get the best camo for multiple environments. That is in fact how the philosophy, as it were, behind camouflage has changed in the military. It used to be about using foliage etc to camouflage your helmet and shoulders and all that, changing it as you moved environments – old school infantry did a lot of personal camouflage. In today’s higher tempo and vehicle borne operations the thought has changed to getting a good camouflage for most environments and not bothering so much with personal camouflage.
     Given that we are contemplate working in the domestic US then parts of both arguments apply. You can afford to go more old school with camouflage and concealment, but you also want a good base clothing. Frankly I would be happy in any decent camouflage, woodland BDUs, multi-cam, even drab colored clothing. Just don’t wear the current military ACUs!

   • Thanks Max, My training go’s to the OG 107 years(1975-1981), so I have little knowledge of the modern camo, and Yeh, Mud will turn your gear whatever color the dry mud is. I well remember going to the field and smearing mud on Trucks, Mutts, helmets ,rucks, TA-50 and then having to clean all of it, when we came in. I still run my “old school” medium ruck ,packed for a three day, temperate zone( I just swapped it out for hot weather)and ERDL, OG-107s or Tigers in the summer—Ray

2. Wow background checks huh. Now who’s being the police

   • Yes, your sarcasm is noted. I am not aiming at training law enforcement and I am not aiming to pry into peoples privacy. I ‘moderated’ another comment about me “ranting against LEOs” and then wanting to train them, I guess simply because an LE ID is one of the means I suggest that people could prove to me that they are not felons. I don’t think its likely that I want to set up an LE centric training school, and those that have signed up so for are not LEO types.
     The ‘background check’ is simply to protect myself and others that will train with me against any criminal elements, not only for our personal safety and protection from liability but to ensure that criminals don’t get SUT training.
     Sarcasm aside, I think my personal views are pretty plain and I am not about penalizing Patriots and law abiding folks that want to train with me. However, I am sure that same law abiding folks don’t want to show up at my training site and find themselves going up the range with MS13 members, etc…

3. Just got all three of the books in yesterday. Starting with Patriot Dawn.. Certain books change the way you see life.. Once Second After and Patriots were excellent reads, and I think these three will also be good wake ups.. can’t put it down..

   • Thank you: but to re-state here, I don’t recommend getting both Contact and Rapid Fire. One or the other, if you are on a budget of any sort – there is too much shared info between the two manuals.
     I do think Patriot Dawn/Contact or even Patriot Dawn/Rapid Fire are good companion reads.