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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Not directly. I am talking about military hand to hand combat, but I dont want to single out marines.
Well, modern day marines is the subject here, nothing else.
I know as a fact marines are training heavily in urban now, and almost nothing in field. This is because their enemies like in Iraq are urban fighters. The SF takes care of the idiots in Afghanistan stupid enough to engage the US in an open area, and what they cant be fucked doing they just level an entire mountain with buster bombs.
How many engagements do you think marines have had in the open field in Iraq? Compare that to their urban engagements.
When I trained with them in shaol water bay ex 2007 they were teaching us heaps of urban skills, they kicked ass at it because they do it all the time. Where as Australia does more field, and when it came to that they could not even keep up with us in a pack march, and we were teaching them everything about field.
This is an "in theory" thing. Where as it might work in numbers and stats, but if you sum up individuals then I think you would be wrong. I never did any training like you say when I was in the Infantry. It was the commanders job to take advantage of variables, but that was not people falling on stones, it was bigger ones, like a delay in the enemies supply trucks or something. It would come into it more in an urban warfare enviroment, but that is still all shooting, not fist fighting.
Someone who is martially minded and has common sense is going to be able to improvise his surroundings and deal with a changing situation. The people good at this will be found both inside and outside the Army, and both places have people who are completely unadaptable.
Personally, I would say a lot of guys in the Army I new were not near half as pussy as some of the guys I met at my Muay Thai gym, and that is an advantage. But there are also several guys who are not pussy fags at my gym, and then that, on top with their Muay Thai training, would make them a hell of a resourcefull street fighter.
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