The dangers of instructing unapproved risky tactics such as taking your eyes off of the weapon to check rear flank terrain.
When it comes to developing military close combat and military self-defence tactics and skills, there has to be a definite process to ensure any adopted skills have been officially proven and approved by the HQ source responsible for the development of Doctrine, standards, tradecraft practices and excellence in skills development.
New skills must not be developed without primary reasoning, official requests, and authorisation, or just for the sake of it.
There are wide ranging considerations including self-defence laws, rules and regulations that need to be checked and cleared as part of developing skills. Considerations like battledress, body armour, webbing, battlefield specifics, roles, rules of engagement, standard operating procedures, laws of self-defence and other considerations must be given serious consideration before a skill is approved.
Those that develop skills must be highly trained and experienced in the methods and processes required to develop test and prove skills to ensure they are the safest, best and most effective means of objective achievement.
They not only need to be competent, confident and qualified in skills development, but they importantly need to be under strict orders and instructions and be privy to all skills development guidelines, parameters, conditions, rules and regulations.
Being qualified at this highest of CQC ranks and status takes decades of fulltime commitment and being trained by the best of the best in military CQC/MSD in mil CQC/MSD tradecraft skills development.
Having an official process that has to be followed in regards to developing and approving new tactics and skills is a must to maintain the highest levels of safety and objective achievement capabilities.
It is also important to have checking processes like instructor moderation and training content and delivery audits.
Anyone that is not highly trained and qualified in the development of combative doctrine should never make changes in tactics and skills. Those that are highly qualified must follow the required strict and to the point processes and procedures to ensure only the best and safest means and methods of combative objective achievement are adopted and signed off officially.
Anyone that does not abide by official protocols and procedures self-identifies as an unprofessional with a disregard for safety and standards. Such undesirable attributes are sure signs of egotistical arrogance, incompetency and/or hidden agendas.
The introduction of unauthorised skills without proper process and clearance compromise the process of delivering the best and safest means of threat neutralisation putting operators at risk and this is unacceptable in any professional training organisation. Skills that are tactically flawed, high risk, dangerous or do not fit with roles duties and threat neutralisation requirements must be stamped out immediately and those that are responsible for unofficial delivery of such skills need to be cut away.
Maintaining vigilance conducting audits on conducted training and having instructors that know what is approved content and what is not are priority means of ensuring breaches and culprits are identified and necessary action is immediately taken.
There are wide ranging major and minor components considerations in tactics and skills development in mil CQC objective achievement requirements, that must be part of primary military combative tactics and skills decision making.
There are also practices that should not be part of primary military combative tactics and skills packages that any highly qualified mil CQC specialist instructor would never instruct like those highlighted below and depicted above.
Never turning your back on an enemy in the kill zone.
Not taking your eyes off an armed enemy’s weapon in the kill zone.
Blind rear flank over shoulder reaching at an enemy.
Single handgrip retention of a weapon in an actions-on weapon retention or disarming execution.
Never give an enemy advantage or opportunity by flawed risky tactics or skills is a must and only instructing the best of battle proven threat, role and situational specific officially approved means of threat neutralisation is our modus operandi.
Only an instructor that does not know or care about the dangers of instructing anything other than officially approved primary course included skills of threat neutralisation would deviate from the professional instructor tradecraft course content delivery ethics and ethos.
Mil CQC tradecraft provides role duty and specific threat neutralisation means and methods that include a modus operandi of never underestimating an enemy. All enemies must be considered formidable armed and dangerous, never underestimate disregard or consider any enemy whether unarmed or armed less than dangerous and as such an instructor must only instruct the official course package they have been authorised and ordered to deliver.
Every skill has execution and employment tactics that provide the best and safest means of maximising objective achievement chances that must be adhered to.
There are primary approved trade craft practices to deal with the above highlighted threat situations in breaking responsive ranges in evasive disarming and in neutralising rear flank enemy contact as well as in weapon retention and weapon disarming that maximise safety and objective achievement that mil CQC Masters of their trade craft would know and instruct for such threat neutralisation requirements.
Including unauthorised skills in military self-defence or military close quarters combat training packages shows a lack of tradecraft understanding and clearly identifies instructor deficiencies in military combative knowledge and respect for the chain of command.
The old saying a little knowledge can be dangerous is very true of anyone instructing unauthorised military CQC/MSD skills on official courses of instruction.
Such actions with a disregard for orders prove they are not fit to instruct military CQC/MSD.
To develop doctrine requires Master- Instructors that have been trained in skills development coming up through the ranks on not only exponent assistant instructor and instructor courses but that have also been trained in tradecraft skills evaluation and development. This tradecraft training and qualification includes threat neutralisation related primary problem-solving to ensure approved skills provide the highest levels of safety and best means of role specific objective achievement.
It is common for CQC training research and development cells to be jointly involved with other specialists of closely related fields of expertise in CQB/CQC/MSD tactics and skills development.
CQC medical considerations are one very important field of expertise in military unarmed combat and military self-defence skills development.
There is no reason for breaches of process and procedure resulting in wrongful inclusion of tactics and skills that have not being officially tested proven and approved.
Doctrine standards and excellence processes and procedures are there to set and maintain the highest standards of tactics and skills capability safety and provide combatants with the best means of threat neutralisation objective achievement period.
For anyone to show disregard and disrespect for the chain of command and official protocols procedures and processes for setting and maintaining the highest combative standards required to provide operators with the highest levels of safety and capability, tells you a lot about their lack of integrity.
There can be no excuses for breaching tradecraft and HQ practices and putting operators’ lives in unnecessary risk.
Egotistical, arrogant individuals with hidden agendas when found out will end up on the outside, persona non grata.
Deluded individuals with egos and imaginations that exceed their qualifications levels of expertise and instructing experience are a danger to the combatants they train.
Trained, tested and qualified Master-Instructors responsible for overseeing tactics and skills development must have decades of training and qualifying in this specific tradecraft area of expertise learned from their military CQC tradecraft Master-Chief Instructors.
Fortunately, official military CQC/MSD courses qualifications and instructing service records can be verified by official courses reports, service qualification certification and instructing service logs so initial proving of qualification and instructor service records is as simple as requesting such official records.
Anyone one that unofficially introduces tactics or skills that have not been approved and cleared to be delivered on official courses has no place on any professional mil CQC instructing team as they are not conducting themselves by official trade craft practices.
The duty of care in training provision of military armed and unarmed combat and military self-defence where it can be life or death has no place for anything but the best of the best in skills developed by leading experts in the field of military close combat and delivered by high calibre instructors of the highest integrity.
