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From another shooter:
You guys were right - work was weird. I kept on missing the weight of my rifle while I was walking in the BX, and wondering why nobody was armed during the morning brief. If I hadn't had those two days to do my paradigm shift, today could have been ugly.
Erica - excellent pictures - very impressive. Please keep them coming.
Abreviated AAR - more to follow, but here's my first few thoughts.
Fundamentals I Learned.
Live as a Team, Die as a Team - Working as a Team, Communicating as a Team, Thinking as a Team, all driven home over the course. We are only as strong as the weakest member. If you want to be on a PSD, you have to be a team player and carry your share of the load.
When its least expected, you're elected. If you've got a team in a fight without a plan, someone needs to step up and get a plan going. It doesn't have to be absoloutly right, but it has to be implemented absoloutly right now.
Army/Marine Core appreciation week - some people live this life, running around in full gear every day, all day. Tougher than it looks.
Combat is Chaos. The best way to regain control is with rapid, overwhelming fire on the enemy coupled with a clear plan and good communication. Un**** the situation by killing the dudes who started it and anybody who wants some - in plain speak.
Good communication is nearly impossible under stress - people will default to Grunt Speak - "Move" "Shoot" "Smoke" "Contact Left". Be proficient with grunt speak.
If you get into a fight - that is the culmination of years of conscious and unconscious preparation. Everything you did up to then, from how you cleaned your gun to what you thought of on the bus last week, to what your physical conditioning is, is a piece of the puzzle. How did you prepare?
Things I Learned not to do.
I am not allowed to have accelerants on the range, lest I be tazed.
We are not allowed to tape accelerants to flares.
The above two will make Yeager unhappy, and nobody wants that.
Buy AR's. They work great until they get pretty dirty. Then they become Jam-Tastic.
Tactics: Almost everything was new to me, excluding what I learned from fighting rifle. The Box vs The Diamond was new and valuable in particular. Bailing out of a vehicle was an eye opener with all that gear on as well. Team communication was again a huge learning experience - I'm used to a much quieter environment to communicate in.
Gear:
I learned a lot about gear, but in the end, it boils down to this...
I need an AK (Thanks Jay, Gomez, Nomad 2nd for all your advice). My AR worked, after I got tips from 3 seperate people (Nomad 2nd again, Hanley, and Templar I think) on cleaning it and keeping it running. The AK's in the class ran a lot better.
Overall, gear is nice and easy to talk about, but I'd rather have one person with the right mindset backing me up than some dude with all sorts of wizz-bang gear but the wrong mindset.
To all the guys (and Erica) who made HRCC-Shooting such a good experience for me, thank you. I'll be in touch.
- the Magic Man
ICBMs, the FINAL word in stopping power.
You guys were right - work was weird. I kept on missing the weight of my rifle while I was walking in the BX, and wondering why nobody was armed during the morning brief. If I hadn't had those two days to do my paradigm shift, today could have been ugly.
Erica - excellent pictures - very impressive. Please keep them coming.
Abreviated AAR - more to follow, but here's my first few thoughts.
Fundamentals I Learned.
Live as a Team, Die as a Team - Working as a Team, Communicating as a Team, Thinking as a Team, all driven home over the course. We are only as strong as the weakest member. If you want to be on a PSD, you have to be a team player and carry your share of the load.
When its least expected, you're elected. If you've got a team in a fight without a plan, someone needs to step up and get a plan going. It doesn't have to be absoloutly right, but it has to be implemented absoloutly right now.
Army/Marine Core appreciation week - some people live this life, running around in full gear every day, all day. Tougher than it looks.
Combat is Chaos. The best way to regain control is with rapid, overwhelming fire on the enemy coupled with a clear plan and good communication. Un**** the situation by killing the dudes who started it and anybody who wants some - in plain speak.
Good communication is nearly impossible under stress - people will default to Grunt Speak - "Move" "Shoot" "Smoke" "Contact Left". Be proficient with grunt speak.
If you get into a fight - that is the culmination of years of conscious and unconscious preparation. Everything you did up to then, from how you cleaned your gun to what you thought of on the bus last week, to what your physical conditioning is, is a piece of the puzzle. How did you prepare?
Things I Learned not to do.
I am not allowed to have accelerants on the range, lest I be tazed.
We are not allowed to tape accelerants to flares.
The above two will make Yeager unhappy, and nobody wants that.
Buy AR's. They work great until they get pretty dirty. Then they become Jam-Tastic.
Tactics: Almost everything was new to me, excluding what I learned from fighting rifle. The Box vs The Diamond was new and valuable in particular. Bailing out of a vehicle was an eye opener with all that gear on as well. Team communication was again a huge learning experience - I'm used to a much quieter environment to communicate in.
Gear:
I learned a lot about gear, but in the end, it boils down to this...
I need an AK (Thanks Jay, Gomez, Nomad 2nd for all your advice). My AR worked, after I got tips from 3 seperate people (Nomad 2nd again, Hanley, and Templar I think) on cleaning it and keeping it running. The AK's in the class ran a lot better.
Overall, gear is nice and easy to talk about, but I'd rather have one person with the right mindset backing me up than some dude with all sorts of wizz-bang gear but the wrong mindset.
To all the guys (and Erica) who made HRCC-Shooting such a good experience for me, thank you. I'll be in touch.
- the Magic Man
ICBMs, the FINAL word in stopping power.
