{"id":22561,"date":"2011-03-11T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22561"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:25:07","slug":"the-new-bayonet-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22561","title":{"rendered":"The new bayonet training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Army announced that it ended bayonet training and it claimed that particular series of combatives is obsolete. They stopped issuing bayonets to soldiers which prompted soldiers to bring their own blades to the battle, which in turn has prompted the Army to develop training for fighting with knives according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-rumor-doctor\/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348\/has-the-army-eliminated-bayonet-training-1.137356\">Stars &#038; Stripe<\/a>s;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new technique was demonstrated during last year\u2019s Association of the United States Army convention in Washington. A soldier approached an attacker, who grabbed the end of his rifle. In the ensuing scuffle, the soldier grabbed his bayonet from a sheath on his leg and stabbed the attacker into submission.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the change in training, [Matt Larsen, the former director of the Army\u2019s combatives program] has not heard of units issuing the bayonet to soldiers again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I have seen is they are teaching it now in basic [training], but it\u2019s a trickle-up effect coming from basic,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, I\u2019m in Iraq right now and one of the things I\u2019m doing is showing units this new doctrine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Civilians are probably shocked that the Army teaching soldiers to fight with knives is a newsworthy event. It&#8217;s sad that the Army is moving away from traditional military skills, skills which build teams and individuals aside from improving combat skills. I guess its a result of our dependence on technology to do our killing.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff Schogol for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Army announced that it ended bayonet training and it claimed that particular series &hellip; <a title=\"The new bayonet training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22561\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The new bayonet training<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}