Published Iraq "after action report". It showcases a fight with an insurgent using upper body clinching and knee strikes.
Interesting read.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/...ER-2329490.php
Published Iraq "after action report". It showcases a fight with an insurgent using upper body clinching and knee strikes.
Interesting read.
http://www.armytimes.com/legacy/new/...ER-2329490.php
Everyone knows that there's no grappling in a Real Fight (tm). Also, being on the ground in war means being killed instantly. And you can't grapple weapons. This story is clearly false.
(Good work, Staff Sgt. McCully)
"My only 'aesthetic' is to be the guy who's NOT lying down on the ground broken." - WaterDragon
Can't get any more real-life application than that. I wonder if the weight of his gear helped him control the insurgent.
kind of lucky the insurgent went for butt checking him instead of unloading from a slight distance with his AK to finish the job like i would have....
Never the less, props. for sure.
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Hmmm?? So was this a REAL fight then??? Where was all the grappling and arm bars and stuff like that???
Funny, Lee, you heard cinch and grapple, I heard uppercut and knee strike while holding onto his hair.
I also heard him getting up off the ground as quickly as possible.
But most of all, I heard a lot of chaos, and a young brave soldier doing his best to stay alive, carrying shrapnel in his leg after having been blowed up.
How those guys survived still amazes me. Total respect.
That is intense
The thing that get me was the ten shots to the face!!!
We fight how we train and if we train well, we will fight well, regardless of how we fight.
Close- Quarter combat is just that, close quarter, it envolves everything and thus, everything must be trained.
Logical that if there is a chance of clinching one must train the clinch, if there is a chance of ground fighting, one must train ground fighting.
Simple and logical.
the hell with fighting and any training just pull the triger on every thing and every one ..if i was over there i would not care because those people dont care about any thing .it would be man women or child ...i would survive
What I got was how the "new" iraqi millitary are sh!tbags.
I can't remember the senator but he said he was talking to some of them, and they where all like "why can't america protect us?"
WTF you the iraqi millitary grab a pair a do it yourself.
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Well, yeah. That's what clinch fighting is. Hitting someone while holding them in an upright position.
Sure. "Be able to fight on the ground" (standard MMA argument) is not the same as "Always fight on the ground" (standard mis-read of MMA argument).I also heard him getting up off the ground as quickly as possible.
A-****ing-men.But most of all, I heard a lot of chaos, and a young brave soldier doing his best to stay alive, carrying shrapnel in his leg after having been blowed up.
How those guys survived still amazes me. Total respect.
"My only 'aesthetic' is to be the guy who's NOT lying down on the ground broken." - WaterDragon
No, its that there military is incompetent, they are an ungratefull people, and in the end they don't want to be free. Japan and Germany and a number of other countries seemed to understand the concept coming out of a war.Well, there is the part where we wrecked their country and then disbanded their military.
Started out with great intentions but now you have to go with the old line about you can drag a horse to water but you can't make it drink if it does not want to.
Well said from the safety of Australia and a fantasy BS existance. Take it you still get plenty of John Wayne films on cable over there?
Good point.
Good point.
True. Who trained them? Oh, it was the allies. Saddam did a better job of training the military, which just goes to show without some kind of political lead (however repugnant) there's going to be no cohesive training in the military. They need something to fight for. Fighting for your family isn't enough either: they're being asked to sacrifice more than regular civilians in Iraq, and fighting for the good of the country is too nebulous a concept when there are so many opinions of how that country should go. We need to set up a new dictator and get the **** out again, just like we've been doing in the middle east everywhere for the last hundred years.Silly point. They are different to Japan and Germany, as a people, and the situation is different, and the historical context is different. Basically, you are saying how silly it is they don't recognize your American (allied) concept of gratefulness when all they've seen first hand of American involvement is death. I'm not saying I agree with them: Saddam was of course worse, but we set him up too, so the older generation don't have any fond memories of our involvement either, and the aftermath of the Gulf War doesn't do us any favours either... and yes, they should take responsibility, but the fact was, they were never a nation until we made them one: they were a collection of mostly warring tribes, so what are they going to take responsibilty for?they are an ungratefull people, and in the end they don't want to be free. Japan and Germany and a number of other countries seemed to understand the concept coming out of a war.
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