[ - ] NoRefunds 1 point 1.4 yearsDec 22, 2023 15:28:56 ago (+1/-0)
Most of them have their feet backwards. They are training with a 70 year old platform and none of them have optics. They arwnt even doing real drills, they are line dancing and shooting. Fail
Not one frame of the instructors and students looking at the targets and analyzing their hits.
Now why do you suppose that is?
You can play the "Let's practice looking cool with guns!" shtick all day long, but unless the training is focused on actions that result in rapid, effective hits to the face and upper thoracic cavity of the target, it's just play-acting.
"What doesn't get measured, can't be improved on."
There's real training, and then there's "training for the camera". Only hits count, and if you're not laser focused on making every shot count, you're just: a) turning ammo into noise, and b) practicing missing.
I also noticed a few "range training scars" being induced due to the actual level of basic weapons handling proficiency (or lack thereof) both on the part of the students and the level of proficiency that appears to be expected of the students by the instructors.
It looked like it was organized by a bunch of guys that had watched a ton of YT videos of what US training looks like, and said, "Okay, let's try to make it look like we're doing that and also see if we can get this video made without any of these idiots shooting each other on camera, and we'll call it a win."
When training Afghans, we called this, "Defining and proceduralizing success in such a way that failure literally becomes impossible."
As long as they're still more interested in looking cool (for certain values of cool) than in generating rapid hits, I approve.
(OTOH, Chechens are no joke as far as dirt-worshippers go. Two of the hardest fights my team ever had in Afghanistan were against Chechens. They tended to be more motivated, better equiped and organized than the usual run of goatfuckers. The input of European bloodlines had clearly elevated them above the level of your standard issue hajjis."
[ + ] NoRefunds
[ - ] NoRefunds 1 point 1.4 yearsDec 22, 2023 15:28:56 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] BulletStopper
[ - ] BulletStopper 1 point 1.4 yearsDec 22, 2023 14:09:53 ago (+1/-0)*
The targets.
Not one frame of the instructors and students looking at the targets and analyzing their hits.
Now why do you suppose that is?
You can play the "Let's practice looking cool with guns!" shtick all day long, but unless the training is focused on actions that result in rapid, effective hits to the face and upper thoracic cavity of the target, it's just play-acting.
"What doesn't get measured, can't be improved on."
There's real training, and then there's "training for the camera". Only hits count, and if you're not laser focused on making every shot count, you're just:
a) turning ammo into noise, and
b) practicing missing.
I also noticed a few "range training scars" being induced due to the actual level of basic weapons handling proficiency (or lack thereof) both on the part of the students and the level of proficiency that appears to be expected of the students by the instructors.
It looked like it was organized by a bunch of guys that had watched a ton of YT videos of what US training looks like, and said, "Okay, let's try to make it look like we're doing that and also see if we can get this video made without any of these idiots shooting each other on camera, and we'll call it a win."
When training Afghans, we called this, "Defining and proceduralizing success in such a way that failure literally becomes impossible."
As long as they're still more interested in looking cool (for certain values of cool) than in generating rapid hits, I approve.
I'd put that video in the same category as this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRcVRLtde6c
(OTOH, Chechens are no joke as far as dirt-worshippers go. Two of the hardest fights my team ever had in Afghanistan were against Chechens. They tended to be more motivated, better equiped and organized than the usual run of goatfuckers. The input of European bloodlines had clearly elevated them above the level of your standard issue hajjis."
[ + ] JustALover
[ - ] JustALover 1 point 1.4 yearsDec 22, 2023 13:38:48 ago (+1/-0)
Those are mighty fine AK-reloads, though.