| Hand to Hand Combat Hand to Hand combat refers | | | | weapons are being produced which greatly lessen the |
| to weaponless fighting when it is used in military | | | | need to fight hand to hand. Smaller rifles, machineguns, |
| vernacular. I don’t think that hand to hand fighting | | | | and smart ammunition all make it less likely that the |
| has to be bare handed fighting. In my opinion even | | | | modern soldier will have to engage in hand to hand |
| when you use small weapons other than a gun or | | | | combat. If you are a defending force and find yourself |
| pistol you are fighting hand to hand. All military combat | | | | fighting hand to hand you have a serious problem. In |
| units are trained in hand to hand fighting to some | | | | that case the enemy has penetrated your position and |
| degree but the troops who will be more likely to have | | | | you are being overrun. When you are this close you |
| to fight hand to hand are trained more often and to a | | | | cannot use your bombs, artillery, mortars, and grenade |
| greater degree. Techniques taught in hand to hand | | | | launchers on the attackers. You have also lost the |
| combat vary just a little bit depending on the type of | | | | benefit of being behind or under cover from his |
| unit being trained. Foe example Special Operations | | | | weapon systems. You can’t rely on ninety percent |
| soldiers are taught more explicit and extreme hand to | | | | of your technology so the playing field is level and the |
| hand fighting techniques. In the old war movies you | | | | force with the greater number of people will usually |
| would often see large numbers of soldiers from both | | | | win. (This is normally the attacking force). All of my |
| sides engaged in hand to hand fighting but modern | | | | Special Forces customers are trained extensively in |
| warfare has drastically changed that scenario. I | | | | hand to hand combat along with Spec Ops ring |
| won’t say that larger scale hand to hand | | | | customers from every branch of service. In addition |
| engagements are totally gone but the changes in | | | | the vast majority of combat arms and combat |
| modern warfare and weapons will make it the | | | | support arms soldiers normally undergo martial arts |
| exception rather then the rule. The type of warfare | | | | training on their own. It is offered often free of charge |
| which we are engaged in now and for the | | | | by instructors who happen to be military troops. The |
| foreseeable future is an asymmetric warfare. That is | | | | military also intensively trains selected troops and then |
| every sort of unconventional weapon that you can | | | | sends them back to their units so that they can serve |
| possibly think of is being used. Enemy combatants | | | | as primary instructors for the rest of the unit. Military |
| don’t want to fight in force on force battles | | | | posts and bases will normally be loaded with |
| anymore because they are outmanned and out | | | | gymnasiums with the best exercise equipment and |
| numbered. There is also much less likelihood of | | | | instructors for servicemen and women so none of the |
| superpowers engaging each other directly which | | | | US Armed Forces will ever lose their edge in physical |
| eliminates large forces fighting it out. Close quarter | | | | ability and self defense training. |