Tonight I started on phase 2 of the training, which covered a lot. We started off talking about ways of moving and how a 6 man team works together. Then we moved into more detailed stuff such as room clearing tactics and hallway covering. By this time the guys had got a little bored so we switch to Search and Destroy and played for around an hour – a lot of the guys were using the tactics they learned and you could see the ones were using it tended to do better.

I’m having a rest tomorrow, on Thursday at 8pm we will be doing phase 3, which will cover stairwell clearing, smoke, dealing with ambushes and finally large building clearing operations.

I’m not sure what will happen after that, I just know that it has to become second nature and the guys have to become a lot more disciplined with the tactics and working as part of a team – a lot of them are just out to get kills…

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Needless to say, after a few minutes of organising I got them drilling the formations reasonably well, at one point I had 15 guys running around in one long single file line around Bloc – was quite surreal I can tell you.

Anyways, so far I’ve managed to teach them the following:

• File formation
• Column formation (bit harder)
• Wedge formation (much harder)
• Line formation (fairly straightforward)

Afterwards we had a massive private game of around 6 on 6 (with me spectating), then once the numbers dropped to 9 we went on public on Ground War. Unfortunately we met some people who were a bit rude to say the least, but thankfully we trounced them at Domination on Bloc due to two of our guys holding the building doorways and mowing them down as they tried to come in.

In the next section I intent to teach them a bit more about working these formations in a 6 man team – including “traveling”, “overwatch” and “bounding”. Once I’ve gone through that I’ll have to get them working a battle drill until they can do it properly – then I’ll move onto the more complex close quarters stuff like room clearing, hallways and large building clearing operations!

Read part 2: movement, room clearing and hallways

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