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This six-day class is patterned after the Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat Flat Range week. Having taught multiple room clearing and CQB, CQC courses, one of the major factors holding students back has been their lack of basic firearm-handling skills or using poor techniques. This consistently slows the pace down and is a liability to other teammates. This week is designed to teach and reinforce those necessary firearm-handling skills to be successful doing room clearing and other real-world situations.
Day One is heavily focused on Pistol. We start with a review of the basic principles of shooting a pistol. It doesn’t matter who you are or your experience level, constantly going back to the basics is a must. We break down, in detail, the proper draw for being in a fight, and the all-importance of understanding “position 3”
Day Two follows with Rifle. We do a detailed explanation of rifle zero. It is much too often rushed and not properly understood. This is followed with basic rifle marksmanship and on to multiple targets. Emphasis is placed on YOU being in charge, not your sights or optics. It’s Eyes, Head, Body Gun, as you drive the gun to target. It’s not scanning for a target through a glorified toilet paper tube. Both days are presented with principles and techniques preparing you for a smooth transition to work with teammates and entering the house.
Day Three starts adding the real world into the mix. We start working with Principles of movement, both while shooting and when you just need to get somewhere with a quickness. We begin working transitioning between Rifle and Pistol. This is not an automatic response, but instead a decision for an individual shooter solution. Let them play checkers -- we are teaching you to play chess. We finish the day by going late and use white light for both pistol and rifle low-light situations.
Day Four is more movement, mid-level skills drills, and the beginning of teamwork. Communication with your teammates is key. This is also another late night with the use of Night Vision Devices and lasers. We will zero lasers, talking about different options and techniques. Students will do drills both active and passive.
Day Five spends more time refining the individual shooter solution. We do this by various drills and distance shooting, going out to 300 meters. The remainder of the day is spent getting more reps working with buddy teams.
Day Six is Critical Task Evaluations, skills tests, and a stress shoot. Now that you have spent 5 days of hard training and refinement, we break out the pro-timers. If we had pro-timers out all week, that would have been your focus instead of doing it right. Now that you know what right is, it’s time to put on the polish and establish metrics for self-evaluation. We finish with a stress test that incorporates the principles taught throughout the week.
This class has long days and a high round count. It will have very limited openings to ensure that students get the most out of the class. The class is taught by veteran Special Forces soldiers.
There is a 30-60-minute lunch break each day, with lunch being provided by LTAC.