{"id":37492,"date":"2013-09-09T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37492"},"modified":"2013-09-09T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:49:21","slug":"army-to-gut-combatives-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37492","title":{"rendered":"Army to gut combatives training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greg sends us a link to The Army Times<\/a> which reports that, in an effort to save money at the expense of lives in combat, The Army is planning on gutting combatives training – hand-to-gland combat;<\/p>\n

The Modern Army Combatives Program, headquartered at Fort Benning, Ga., consists of four skill-level courses \u2014 a weeklong basic course, a two-week tactical course, and a basic combatives instructor course and a tactical combatives instructor course, each of which is four weeks long.<\/p>\n

Proposals from Training and Doctrine Command call for eliminating all four levels of training and creating a master combatives trainer course that would be no more than two weeks long.<\/p>\n

In an email obtained by Army Times, officials from TRADOC call for \u201cimplementation of the new program as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ve read countless stories about modern soldiers who had to resort to combat by other means when their weapons jammed or they ran out of ammunition. TRADOC, the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command hasn’t responded to The Army Times inquiries to this change in training, and I don’t blame them. <\/p>\n

You can talk about reducing pay raises, jacking up healthcare costs and such, but when Big Army decides to reduce essential training opportunities, that will cost lives. A few years ago, Big Army decided to cut back on bayonet training and now hand-to-hand training? Do they think the troops live in a perfect Hollywood world in which they never run out of ammo and their weapons always function?<\/p>\n

It’s too bad the troops don’t have a Sergeant Major of the Army worth a shit to stop this loss of a valuable skill. The one they have now is more worried about neck tattoos and cultural sensitivity, though, to be bothered with having a lethal fighting force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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