
I don’t know where to start on this one. I was enjoying my early morning cup of joe and reading some of my favorite gun forums when I came across this.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=8&f=34&t=419783
While most of us in law enforcement have no problems with “civilians” being well trained there are many not so legal types who are now joining the military and receiving training that we in law enforcement are then seeing used against us. Gang members are joining the military not so they can get out of or away from gangs but so they can train, they then take that training home to their local hoods and share their information. While most people would use the training offered to help them at gun matches or just a knowledge base there are those who would use it for the wrong reasons. It opens the trainer up to lawsuits and liability issues. Not saying that 100% of police are good but the majority of us are good guys who believe in what we are doing.
I damn near spit my coffee all over my keyboard. Okay, what? Let me get this straight, lowly “civilians” have no need for this type of training? This is complete and utter bullshit. Reading through the forum I laughed to myself as I saw all the “law enforcement” have images of their face blurred out. As if they work for some secret clandestine agency like the CIA. That last quip about “gangs are joining the military to get training and pass it on to their gang buddies” reacts of ignorance.
Let’s start by analyzing these ignorant statement. Yes there are gang in the military, there are gangs working in Wal-Mart, Auto-Zone, and Hardees also. There are even gang members in federal agencies and police departments. What is your point? This “bogeyman” of gangs in the military has gotten out of hand. So far, there is but ONE case of a Marine that learned some EXTREMELY simple tactics he could just have easily picked up at a local library, using these said tactics to kill one fucking cop. Cops get shot every damn day in America and the vast majority of them weren’t killed as part of a vast conspiracy of gang members secretly training their flock but the officers own incompetence. If any of these so called “officers of the peace” actually had served in the military they would quickly learn that small arms are the LEAST PREFERRED method of killing your opponent and that the training we receive is mediocre at best. That’s the fucking truth. Sorry if I hurt some active duty service members and law enforcement feelings but no amount of training is a substitute for the real thing. Very few of our service members actually have what it takes to think of their feet and destroy their enemies which is why we rely so heavily on close air support, call for fire missions, heavy machine guns, and anti-tank weapons to route out or enemies in damn near every battle we have ever been in since the Revolutionary War.

The second part I take issue with is the whole, “This training is for LE/MIL only!” I can just hear some fat pig living on the tax payers dime say that as he loses his breath my exerting himself with donuts crumbs falling from his department issue mustache. I don’t believe on any restrictions of training for one simple reason, the U.S. Constitution! Telling someone how to do something falls under education and education falls under our 1st Amendment right. I find it odd that police officers are so willing to trample the constitution “for the public good”. Sounds like some shit out of the Communist Manifesto, wait! That is some shit out of the Communist Manifesto! Damn! If someone wants to buy a book/DVD on how to make a bomb, a rifle, and squad level tactics or even teach those tactics others then GOD BLESS THEM. That is what this country was founded on, I don’t know what country Officer DickHead swore allegiance to!
The last thing I have issue with is all these “tactical” classes popping up. It seems everyone has some class on this or that, and while I think the fundamentals should be taught to everyone most of them remind me of the dojos of pre-war Japan. If any of your fuckers who read my blog occasionally read a book, you might know what I am talking about. You see the Mc.Dojo problem isn’t a new phenomenon that started with the Karate Kid franchise. No, that shit started centuries about in feudal japan. Ronin and Samurai that had no fucking job because of some bullshit peace treaty taught their skills to a privileged class, IE the Samurai. The Samurai were supposedly passed down these inherent badass skill sets from birth and honed their skills in the dojo! I am sure many law enforcement officers are masturbating themselves into a frenzy reading this wondering why American can’t do this also. Any ways, these schools would compete with each other and decide whose skill and concepts were the best. In actual battle all that shit went out the fucking window and people got impaled, chopped up and trampled by a 500 pound horse. All that bullshit training of cutting down bamboo was for jack shit and pipe-hitting mother fuckers ruled the roost! Well, I guess it wasn’t all for naught, the Samurai that taught that crap made some descent scratch but it was utterly useless. This is much like the U.S. Army and Marine Corps experience in those first few months in Iraq and Afghanistan. All that train-up and preparation went out the window when *BOOM* road side bomb? WTF? We didn’t train for this! The enemy adapts and evolves, terrain changes, missions change, etc. Either you have the willingness and the ability to deliver violence of action or you don’t. No amount of training will make a scrawny kid into a linebacker and no amount of training and discipline will make a punk brat into a Soldier. Period! You want to thrown down cash on some bad-ass tacticool class from a leet operator, go on with your bad self but remember its a fucking hobby and its still amateur hour! I don’t know why people pay $200, $500 or even $1000 dollars for these bullshit classes! They could just as easily get a book, some DVDs, a reloading setup and learn a SHIT TON more than they ever could listening to some self-appointed blowhard go on and on about what he thinks he knows.
Are you serious about training? Start running, buildup your cardiovascular system, eat right, eat healthy, hit the gym, practice dry-firing like a mother fucker, get some quality gear, buy a reloading setup so you can shoot more, read books about people who have actually been there. Or go spend 3 days at a Magpul Dynamics class and call it a day. I mean if a Coast Guard employee and a Army Ranger can’t train you up in 3 days who can! There are no quick fixes, learning proper combat techniques and developing such a mindset TAKES YEARS! Daily fucking practice, time, a REAL investment. Not just “I bought a glock cause the pros use it, a bunch of bullets at Wal-mart and went to a magpul dynamics class! Hurr-Durr!! Think I need a kydex holster, hurr-durr!” You are no different than the fucking homos of feudal japan whose daddy’s paid for them to be a samurai like their great grandfather only to get cut the fuck down by a angry pissed off peasant FIVE minutes into the battle.