Mil CQC/MSD training and testing has to be as terminally deliberate as it gets to defeat formidable foes and as such the training modus operandi must be based on the same hard core fact of the matter mentality and trade craft practices.
Recruiting must identify individuals that show desirable attributes and reject those that don’t meet course joining requirements.
Our experienced Master- Instructors are well versed in identifying suitable course joining exponents and declining applications from those that are not.
There are some colourful descriptions of individual’s character traits and flaws including the hand symbol at the head of this blog for a boot or butt licker depicting the legs of a butt licker extending from a superiors butthole.
Military CQC is black and white with recruiting fitting individuals and identifying character traits in applicants and exponents.
The exponent recruiting demeanour and attitude we are looking for is that of the quietly confident type.
The fact of the matter is fitting applicants apply because they want and need the skills we provide.
They have done their research and understand what is required and what European military close quarters combat and military self-defence training is all about.
These types are practical realists that know there are no easy soft options or mystical magical ways to defeat a formidable foe and they know military CQC dirty tricks brigade battle proven tactics and skills provide the best chances of formidable threat neutralisation.
The lads and lasses that understand how to conduct themselves properly are generally very quiet types that give little away.
The application course joining process can identify character traits strengths and weaknesses. In military CQC those that are smart do not want to stand out or bring unnecessary attention to themselves.
What we look for in fitting exponents
- Quiet confidence
- Responsibility
- Maturity
- Mental toughness
- Inner resolve
- Honesty
- Integrity
- Respect
- Realism
- Practicality
- Commitment
Indicators that bring attention to applicants
- Providing irrelevant subject matter information
- Trying to cross-connect prior training to military CQC/MSD
- Long detailed personal outlines of prior non-military combative training and grades achieved
- Bootlickers
- Applicants that think they are CQC/MSD subject matter experts and tell of what CQC/MSD is in their application
- Requests of recognition for prior unrelated training and grades
- Name droppers
- Excuse makers
- Poor personal hygiene
- Applicants backgrounds and connections
The most important attributes we are looking for when recruiting and in exponents under training include mental toughness, responsibility, respect, reliability, integrity, intestinal fortitude, practical smarts, and quiet confident commitment.
Prior training, other than military unarmed combat and military self-defence training, and rank is not requested or required information.
Answers to application questions can be very revealing in profiling the individual applicant.
Applicants that include unrequested unrelated information to specific questions or copious details of prior training and grades in non-military CQC training just bring attention to themselves.
Applicants that give their reason for joining as wanting to become a better person do not understand the objectives of CQC/MSD.
You don’t join the dirty tricks brigade other than to gain combative and self-defence competency confidence and capability.
Then you get the occasional applicant with a warry email addresses or references to mil CQC content without CQC qualification and this rings alarm bells.
Those that go to great lengths to convince us of their long-term training expertise and high-grade status on their basic entry-level exponent application/questionnaire answers is often an indicator of a lack of confidence in their combative/self-protection capabilities. Braggarts.
We get entry-level applicants that include information telling us what military CQC and MSD is all about and this is prior to having undertaken a single lesson. Braggarts.
There are other types that are name droppers or over complimentary and condescending. Boot Lickers.
The fact of the matter is you don’t apply for such training unless you need and want to increase your combative and self-defence capability.
The desirable quiet grey confident military demeanour and attitude of CQC exponent/proponent is what we are looking for in our civilian exponents.
Fitting exponents that achieve and advance need to be low profile security conscious types.
Fitting exponents must be able to accept challenges understand the practical realities of hands on European military CQC/MSD training, be able to follow instructions, take orders and respect the chain of command.
Exponents that ask questions simply to have prior knowledge of what is in store for them and what to expect before instructions and orders have been delivered are frowned upon.
There is no place for Egotistical types or those with bad tempers or bullying tendencies.
All our rank-and-file are expected to be reliable, honest, selfless, and upfront.
Excuses for failing to follow instructions take orders and achieve objectives are seen as sign of a lack of commitment.
If the application process is not blatantly obvious in regard to what is expected of an exponent, the training regime will be and the testing regime will be even more revealing.
New entry-level exponents male and female come in all physical sizes from wide ranging backgrounds and of vast professions and all must be humble types that understand humility and prove themselves by their actions.
We encourage advancement and achievement, but it is up to the individual to undertake the mandatory training and volunteer for testing as there are no political passes easy or soft options.
Todd Group members must identify themselves through their confidence competency and capability.
European military CQC and MSD training for civilians is a privilege not a given right, and all exponents proponents and instructors must understand that their membership may be revoked because of a single offending action that contravenes our code of conduct rules and regulations.
Civilians undergoing instruction in our primary military close combat and military self-defence systems must abide by our code of conduct rules and regulations at all times.
The recruiting profiling process can identify negative characteristics character traits and provide details that eliminate individuals from course joining.
Egotistical or arrogant types have no place in CQC ranks.
The application process must be strict and to the point because of the nature of the provided training that is disparate from civilian arts self-defence.
Every aspect of the application process and the training and testing regimes is an identifier of individuals strengths and every weakness.
European military CQC/MSD being based on the Todd Group’s most current and proven of dirty and deadly tricks brigade trade craft practices provides the combatant with their best combative chance of threats neutralisation, but they must be mentally tough practical hands-on realists to defeat formidable aggressors.
Capable types come in all shapes and sizes and self- identify through their willingness to accept the challenges of training and testing and never quit in their pursuit of achieving CQC confidence and competence.
The reality is any individual male or female of varied physical statues and physical attributes can achieve in our European military CQC/MSD training if they are made of the right stuff and want to be the best they can be.
Top combatants need to be strong willed individuals and hard-core tight training group members.
Often those that talk themselves up the most are found out as there is nowhere to hide at close quarters.
Informed applicants have done their homework and usually apply as an individual not because they are jointly applying with friends.
No matter of rank or status all exponents proponents and instructors must understand and accept that being an exponent proponent or an instructor is a privilege not a given right that will be revoked if the required attitude good character and exemplary code of conduct is not maintained.
The process from application through course/Group joining combined with the training and testing regimes are all processes to identify train test and prove individuals that meet stringent CQC training conditions.
The attrition rate is high and only a fraction of 1 percent will make it from a basic entry level exponent to a specialist life-long proponent and that’s just as it should be.
