Every Marine to be a Kung-Fu Fighter

Military.com ^ | July 22, 2007 | Jeff Schogol

[txhurl]

Your cat (we have eyes everywhere):

[Centurion2000]

and he hated firearms. I never figured out why ...

Because he HATED cleaning them. At least a quarter of my time in boot seemed like it was cleaning weapons with Q-Tips and toothbrushes. Forget using modern cleaning fliud ... you're doing it with CLP ... basic oil.

You've never gone through gun cleaning hell until you've had your weapon rejected 10 times by the armorers.

[Grizzled Bear]

Your cat (we have eyes everywhere):

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The behavior looks right but my cat is “fluffier.” Maybe he’s wearing a disguise...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Kung FOOEY~~~Go Back To 1966 "Hand To Hand Combat."... Sat Cong...Sat Moozzi...

[txhurl]

Am I gettin warm?

[infowarrior]

As far as the Marines receiving hand-to-hand combat training, it's news to me. Why didn't we think of it before?

Once upon a time, both the Army and the Marines taught hand to hand combat in Basic Training. It was phased out shortly before I entered Basic though, because too many recruits were getting into trouble in bars on furlough (actually getting their backsides handed to them by civilians, or so the DI's told me).

If this new program was designed by somebody like Norris, though, it may well be worthwhile...

the infowarrior

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bacon belt?

[LexBaird]

Your Kung Fu is weak, Al Queda boy! My Kung Fu comes with landing craft!

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

LOL,,,Ya’ll Too ?,,,C/3/5,,,3-1966,,,Chuck Who ? BWAhahaha!

[1L]

Norris had significant training in other styles, including judo. Incidentally, Norris was in the Air Force.

[1L]

One of the problems a lot of martial arts practitioners don’t realize is most fights end up on the ground. Thus, a lack of knowledge of groundfighting can be, well, fatal.

I think a good start to designing a combat program is to go to those ultimate fighting championship websites and read the rules. Find out what’s prohibited, and design the curriculum around that. I’ve studied two different taekwondo styles and have all the belts to show for it, and the self training I’ve done in the “illegal” techniques, I think, will be more efficient.

[1L]

I meant effective.

[chesty_puller]

We deserve a Leesville survival medal.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Marine Corps Martial Arts Program

[txhurl]

ping

[A.A. Cunningham]

That was being taught back in the early 80s along with gouging out eyeballs with one’s thumbs, breaking ankles with one’s boots, breaking necks with cupped hands, driving the septum into the brain with the butt of one’s hand, tearing off ears with the flick of a wrist, driving a K-Bar up underneath the rib cage, etc. This is nothing new.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

We deserve a Leesville survival medal.
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LOL,,,Ain’t that the truth,,,Polk has changed alot,,,
The guard-shacks at the gates are now flower-beds,,,
(shakin’ head)...

[Vor Lady]

Chuck Norris and close combat fun in the Marines ping!

[Lancey Howard]

Man, are you and I ever on the same page.

Semper fidelis,
LH

[Lancey Howard]

Another component of the training is character development, which ties the physical skills Marine learn with what they do as good citizens, he said.

Commandant Conway is big on "rules of engagement", "battlefield ethics" and ratting out your brother-in-arms if you think he accidently hurt a civilian during a battle, etc. The guy is a political hack, and I can only wonder how many Marines will lose their lives because they hesitate for a split second to squeeze the trigger as they wonder if they will end up in court martial.

I have a bookmark full of evidence that this may already be the case.

Semper fidelis,
LH