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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 24, 2014 7:26:42 GMT -5
............. The thing to remember here is how do you apply that to a civilian self-defense group, in a WROL setting? That's the key.......
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Post by panzer0170 on Oct 24, 2014 7:27:56 GMT -5
Yeah the skill of imparting knowledge to someone else is totally separate from being able to do it yourself. I am struggling with that myself. In the military I had a "captured audience" so to speak. Nowadays, I'm competing with the internet, video games, other instructors, etc. for these guy's attention. Until someone is really motivated to learn what you're trying to teach, I guess you're gonna have to be entertaining, like Chris Costa ("AR mag, Glock mag, twinkie..."). Did you guys ever get the 'lesson' on rations, where they show you 2 ration boxed (one is supposed to be an officers...) and they show you the contents of the soldiers one (actual contents of a proper ration box) and then they show you the officers one (same size, but with a dug out hole under it - bottle of wine comes out, cheese, crackers etc - A bit like Mary Poppins bag. Or camo/concealment with 'not enough' being a naked bloke and a 'too much' being a bloke holding a load of branches across the front of him? Stuff like that makes lessons, and helps take a little bit of the 'dryness' out of them
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Post by Diz on Oct 26, 2014 17:57:20 GMT -5
No but that's pretty good stuff. We had a couple of characters at Quantico that started off their "periods of instruction" with all kinds of crap. Like TV and movie out-takes. Then of course there was "Lt Wolf", complete with full wolf's head and crossed bandos of 7.62 ammo. Dude was always crashing in our tactics classes with all sorts of antics. And the armorers were really funny. We would have live video feed from the armory, where they would take the M-60 or whatever apart, step by step, as the instructor called out the process. When the instructor wasn't looking, they would hold up all sorts of shit to the monitor, like bits of paper with jokes, asking something, and then another one with the punch line. The whole class would crack up, and the instructor would whirl around and wonder WTF?
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