
Originally Posted by
Atg336
Totally agree.
Our unit got a quick one day class in Kuwait (we had some time to kill before our plane flight back stateside was approved) by former SOF on unit scale movement and drills, as well as additional instruction on CQB, how to make yourself and your gear cooperate while moving in tight spaces, night engagements (trained at night), and ammo ballistics.
Pretty eye opening training we should have gotten a year before that, as we drove into Iraq under equipped, undertrained, with beat up Hummers and 5 tons.
Based on some of this instruction 10 years ago, I still have the proper mindset and a very good idea of what I would require of my abilities in a plethora of situations. (Of course that's not to say that I'm not planning on some more classes in the near future.)
Quality training will always leave you more humble and confident of your ability to adapt and overcome a shitty situation.
Like many have stated, for many vets, you have a false since of bravado that's hard to overcome when you get out. Once a person becomes open to other, often better alternatives to what we once thought of as having alleged 'superior fighting skills', it frees your mind to consider and accept better alternative training. Then that training resets your brain function and humbles you considerably. Of course stay away from the bubba type training folks who have zero training credentials with dangerous tendencies and questionable methods. The probability of getting shot in one of those classes are higher than the actual training value provided.
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before! The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." - Rudyard Kipling
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