More on Training Concepts

Some things I have thought about recently and will be adding or expounding upon in training are the use of camouflage, micro terrain, and stealthy movements. These topics seem simple and easy, but how many of you can say that you have mastered the techniques? How many can say that they can move miles through difficult terrain undetected by all methods of detection?

With that said, I think we should be concentrating, and practicing/training on movements while totally concealed. Patience is needed, as well as attention to detail and knowledge of how to move properly. The use of camouflage clothing as well as "gille" type suits/ponchos and light weight gear that is situated on your sides not on your front is desired. If you have a bunch of crap on your front, you will never be able to low crawl effectively. Take a look at how the Viet Cong were equipped, and see that they did not have a ton of crap all over them. They were lightly equipped, and highly trained, which makes sense for a fighter that is technologically inferior than his adversary.

We will be in the same boat as the Viet Cong, and will need to equip ourselves similarly, but with the help of much more modern and effective equipment than they had. We will not be effective at the style of fighting we will have to do to be effective if we equip ourselves like we are in the Army, or Marine Corps. We will not (under most scenarios) be able to have plate carriers with plates, mags, packs, and all the crap that modern soldiers carry with them. We need to give up that idea, we are not the Army! We need to be a highly trained, lightly equipped, fast moving, clandestine, and mobile guerilla force.

I recommend everyone get good quality camouflage clothing in an effective pattern (my favorites are A-Tacs FG, and Kryptek Highlander/Mandrake for my AO in Washington State), also a gille type suit, like the one on the right side of this page second from the top. I know it is not perfect, but it is a good suit, I have one, and it works well. When performing non CQB tactical training I wear one very often, and would wear one for actual situations.

All the normal stuff applies to covert movement, such as not silhouetting yourself, following the terrain lines, use of military crest, or the very bottom of deep crevasses.

This video is old, but does an excellent job showing a lot of these concepts.





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