11-30-2011, 04:14 PM
Yeah, I need to work with the Grendel more doing rapid strings, which will take a fair amount of rounds. That was Lapua brass, so I ain't too eager to go spewing it all over tarnation.
CQB and CQC are the practical application of violence in closer engagement distances, from contact distance (muzzle to enemy chest or H2H) to maybe 75m. Close Quarter Marksmanship is the field of discipline at the individual task levels, including stance, low ready, high ready, shot placement and close range grouping drills, Mozambique drills, Bill drills, turns, alternate positions such as urban prone, barricade shooting, side prone, kneeling, transitions to sidearm, walking and shooting both forward and laterally, etc.
After a good amount of those exercises, you can start working shooters into 2-man teams with live-fire on a flat range, then 4 or more doing a ton of shooting around each other with movement, then start working into the houses. These would be your collective tasks under CQB, which are actually covered by the 8 Battle Drills in the Infantry Bible FM7-8, one section being Enter and Clear a Building, Enter and Clear a Room. There has been a lot of evolution in this area since the 1970's, to the point that is in urecognizable from then to now, just like the marksmanship techniques.
In any deliberate attack, Raid, Squad and Platoon Attack, and Ambushes, you actually use CQB when assaulting across the objective or kill zone, so while many think CQB is sexy stuff for urbanized areas only, it has broader applications for straight leg infantry units.
CQB and CQC are the practical application of violence in closer engagement distances, from contact distance (muzzle to enemy chest or H2H) to maybe 75m. Close Quarter Marksmanship is the field of discipline at the individual task levels, including stance, low ready, high ready, shot placement and close range grouping drills, Mozambique drills, Bill drills, turns, alternate positions such as urban prone, barricade shooting, side prone, kneeling, transitions to sidearm, walking and shooting both forward and laterally, etc.
After a good amount of those exercises, you can start working shooters into 2-man teams with live-fire on a flat range, then 4 or more doing a ton of shooting around each other with movement, then start working into the houses. These would be your collective tasks under CQB, which are actually covered by the 8 Battle Drills in the Infantry Bible FM7-8, one section being Enter and Clear a Building, Enter and Clear a Room. There has been a lot of evolution in this area since the 1970's, to the point that is in urecognizable from then to now, just like the marksmanship techniques.
In any deliberate attack, Raid, Squad and Platoon Attack, and Ambushes, you actually use CQB when assaulting across the objective or kill zone, so while many think CQB is sexy stuff for urbanized areas only, it has broader applications for straight leg infantry units.