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Nobody goes into a room like Delta Force: A CQB attitude primer

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(Cover photo: my good bud Robert Horrigan, KIA in Iraq)

Close Quarters Battle (CQB), or Close Quarters Combat (CQC) is to the effect about 75% (maybe higher) testicles, and then 25% technique. I don’t like to over complicate things, especially CQB, one of the most absolutely horrifying things a human may ever do. It is the very nature of the degree of difficulty inherent in ‘the act’ of CQB that bids its techniques to remain very simple, lest the mind become incapable of holding the process at all.

I say ~75% intestinal fortitude, because if you can find a person that will take an AR and run into a small room of completely unknown contents, expected deadly threat, then you already have ~75% of what you need to create a successful CQB operator. All that remains, is to teach and train your operator the very few principles, and the very simple techniques, for room combat.

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    Recon6

    MR... fortunately "you are not saying the author is lying"... perhaps prior to commenting on a SOFREP writer with the Cred of one Mr. Geo Hand, you Need to do a bit of research my friend...without going into too much depth, Geo knows of which he speaks, as one who has been there and done that, he is not only relating his thoughts but also his actions as a member of Delta...best....6

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    Min R

    It's so difficult to believe the anecdote on the 707 CT-SMB (The South Korean equivalent of Delta). I am not saying that the author is lying, but I do think that the team that was hosted in the U.S. was one of the most utterly incompetent ones among the Batt. But still, it is absolutely embarrassing. I am personally a friend with several 707 operators and having served with them, my impression was that they were all great quiet professionals who hold themselves to the highest of standards and dignity (I wouldn't dream of them shoplifting...). I hope the readers would not be quick to judge the entire South Korean Special Operations Community by this story alone.

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    George E. Hand IV

    RGR your remark, brother Chris V. geo sends

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    George E. Hand IV

    Thank you for this, Troy N; i sincerely appreciate it. geo sends

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    George E. Hand IV

    Cheers, Mx SUDS. geo sends