WIRED: A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces

[Reptile]

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill​

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

An automobile defense exercise at Gunsite Academy in Yavapai County, Arizona.Photograph: Jesse Rieser
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1. ‘Our Numbers Grow Every Year’

On a misty November morning just after sunrise, I pulled up to a shooting range in central Texas with a borrowed AR-15 and a few hundred rounds of dubious-quality Russian ammunition that I’d ordered over the internet. I followed a pickup down a gravel road and over two cattle guards to the far end of the property. Then I parked in a field ringed by trees whose bark was scarred by stray bullets.
A handful of men had already arrived, and they were loading ammunition into their magazines as the morning birds chittered overhead. After a while, a decorated US Army veteran named Eric Dorenbush gathered us into a circle and gave a short safety briefing—don’t point your barrel at anything you’re not willing to destroy, act as if every gun is loaded—then he asked us not to share any images or videos on social media. We didn’t want information falling into the hands of terrorists or other bad actors, he explained. Plus there could be social repercussions. “This activity is considered … off-mainstream,” one of my fellow students, an orthopedist from Indiana, told me.
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We had all signed up for a two-day tactical firearms course, where we’d be learning how to shoot as if we were engaged in small-unit armed combat. Once the purview of law enforcement officers and military operators, these kinds of skills are increasingly being passed down to ordinary, armed Americans by a sprawling and diffuse industry. Gun ranges and private facilities around the country teach the art of tactical shooting, in setups that range from the fly-by-night to the elaborate: At a Texas resort, you can schedule a combat training scenario inspired by the Iraq War after your trail ride; at an invitation-only facility in Florida, you can practice taking down a mass shooter at the Liberal Tears Café; at Real World Tactical, a former Marine will teach you how to survive “urban chaos through armed tactical solutions.”
Under the aegis of his one-man company, Green Eye Tactical, Dorenbush says he trains SWAT teams and military contractors, but that about half of his students are people who don’t carry a gun professionally. In recent weeks, he’d worked with a 22-year-old mechanic who’d been robbed at work, a teenage girl, and several married couples. “Everyone has different things they’re preparing for, different threats,” he said.

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

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[Boghog1]

And? They piss and moan that only those with training should be allowed to carry and then piss and moan when people get training?

 

[SpaceCritter]

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill​

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

We can only hope.

 

[mac1911]

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill​

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

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I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill
1. ‘Our Numbers Grow Every Year’

On a misty November morning just after sunrise, I pulled up to a shooting range in central Texas with a borrowed AR-15 and a few hundred rounds of dubious-quality Russian ammunition that I’d ordered over the internet. I followed a pickup down a gravel road and over two cattle guards to the far end of the property. Then I parked in a field ringed by trees whose bark was scarred by stray bullets.
A handful of men had already arrived, and they were loading ammunition into their magazines as the morning birds chittered overhead. After a while, a decorated US Army veteran named Eric Dorenbush gathered us into a circle and gave a short safety briefing—don’t point your barrel at anything you’re not willing to destroy, act as if every gun is loaded—then he asked us not to share any images or videos on social media. We didn’t want information falling into the hands of terrorists or other bad actors, he explained. Plus there could be social repercussions. “This activity is considered … off-mainstream,” one of my fellow students, an orthopedist from Indiana, told me.
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We had all signed up for a two-day tactical firearms course, where we’d be learning how to shoot as if we were engaged in small-unit armed combat. Once the purview of law enforcement officers and military operators, these kinds of skills are increasingly being passed down to ordinary, armed Americans by a sprawling and diffuse industry. Gun ranges and private facilities around the country teach the art of tactical shooting, in setups that range from the fly-by-night to the elaborate: At a Texas resort, you can schedule a combat training scenario inspired by the Iraq War after your trail ride; at an invitation-only facility in Florida, you can practice taking down a mass shooter at the Liberal Tears Café; at Real World Tactical, a former Marine will teach you how to survive “urban chaos through armed tactical solutions.”
Under the aegis of his one-man company, Green Eye Tactical, Dorenbush says he trains SWAT teams and military contractors, but that about half of his students are people who don’t carry a gun professionally. In recent weeks, he’d worked with a 22-year-old mechanic who’d been robbed at work, a teenage girl, and several married couples. “Everyone has different things they’re preparing for, different threats,” he said.

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

www.wired.com

As it should be, WE the people should not be restricted to training to defend ourselves, their homes and this country.
Basically the US Gov has been worried since the 1920s when they where getting beat by citizens with tactics and fire power over alcohol 1934 was the start of trying to real in some of the power of “free citizens”.

dont be shocked if these current folks in power try to ban all sorts of shit like anything but clay target shooting and static target shooting

 

[Lank]

Freedom is scary to the tyrannical left

 

[jkelly1229]

Remember that class we all saw a while back where people were dry firing into the people beside and in front of them?

Just because you take a class doesn't mean it's any good

 

[1903Collector]

Remember that class we all saw a while back where people were dry firing into the people beside and in front of them?

Just because you take a class doesn't mean it's any good

I was at a shop yesterday that was very busy, got swept more than a floor by the folks behind the counter.

 

[jkelly1229]

I was at a shop yesterday that was very busy, got swept more than a floor by the folks behind the counter.

Yeah I'd probably never shop there again lol

 

[Range is Hot]

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill​

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

An automobile defense exercise at Gunsite Academy in Yavapai County, Arizona.Photograph: Jesse Rieser
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/fee...-share&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=earned
https://www.wired.com/story/america-civilian-tactical-training-industry/#
1. ‘Our Numbers Grow Every Year’

On a misty November morning just after sunrise, I pulled up to a shooting range in central Texas with a borrowed AR-15 and a few hundred rounds of dubious-quality Russian ammunition that I’d ordered over the internet. I followed a pickup down a gravel road and over two cattle guards to the far end of the property. Then I parked in a field ringed by trees whose bark was scarred by stray bullets.
A handful of men had already arrived, and they were loading ammunition into their magazines as the morning birds chittered overhead. After a while, a decorated US Army veteran named Eric Dorenbush gathered us into a circle and gave a short safety briefing—don’t point your barrel at anything you’re not willing to destroy, act as if every gun is loaded—then he asked us not to share any images or videos on social media. We didn’t want information falling into the hands of terrorists or other bad actors, he explained. Plus there could be social repercussions. “This activity is considered … off-mainstream,” one of my fellow students, an orthopedist from Indiana, told me.
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We had all signed up for a two-day tactical firearms course, where we’d be learning how to shoot as if we were engaged in small-unit armed combat. Once the purview of law enforcement officers and military operators, these kinds of skills are increasingly being passed down to ordinary, armed Americans by a sprawling and diffuse industry. Gun ranges and private facilities around the country teach the art of tactical shooting, in setups that range from the fly-by-night to the elaborate: At a Texas resort, you can schedule a combat training scenario inspired by the Iraq War after your trail ride; at an invitation-only facility in Florida, you can practice taking down a mass shooter at the Liberal Tears Café; at Real World Tactical, a former Marine will teach you how to survive “urban chaos through armed tactical solutions.”
Under the aegis of his one-man company, Green Eye Tactical, Dorenbush says he trains SWAT teams and military contractors, but that about half of his students are people who don’t carry a gun professionally. In recent weeks, he’d worked with a 22-year-old mechanic who’d been robbed at work, a teenage girl, and several married couples. “Everyone has different things they’re preparing for, different threats,” he said.

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

www.wired.com

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill​

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

An automobile defense exercise at Gunsite Academy in Yavapai County, Arizona.Photograph: Jesse Rieser
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/fee...-share&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=earned
https://www.wired.com/story/america-civilian-tactical-training-industry/#
1. ‘Our Numbers Grow Every Year’

On a misty November morning just after sunrise, I pulled up to a shooting range in central Texas with a borrowed AR-15 and a few hundred rounds of dubious-quality Russian ammunition that I’d ordered over the internet. I followed a pickup down a gravel road and over two cattle guards to the far end of the property. Then I parked in a field ringed by trees whose bark was scarred by stray bullets.
A handful of men had already arrived, and they were loading ammunition into their magazines as the morning birds chittered overhead. After a while, a decorated US Army veteran named Eric Dorenbush gathered us into a circle and gave a short safety briefing—don’t point your barrel at anything you’re not willing to destroy, act as if every gun is loaded—then he asked us not to share any images or videos on social media. We didn’t want information falling into the hands of terrorists or other bad actors, he explained. Plus there could be social repercussions. “This activity is considered … off-mainstream,” one of my fellow students, an orthopedist from Indiana, told me.
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We had all signed up for a two-day tactical firearms course, where we’d be learning how to shoot as if we were engaged in small-unit armed combat. Once the purview of law enforcement officers and military operators, these kinds of skills are increasingly being passed down to ordinary, armed Americans by a sprawling and diffuse industry. Gun ranges and private facilities around the country teach the art of tactical shooting, in setups that range from the fly-by-night to the elaborate: At a Texas resort, you can schedule a combat training scenario inspired by the Iraq War after your trail ride; at an invitation-only facility in Florida, you can practice taking down a mass shooter at the Liberal Tears Café; at Real World Tactical, a former Marine will teach you how to survive “urban chaos through armed tactical solutions.”
Under the aegis of his one-man company, Green Eye Tactical, Dorenbush says he trains SWAT teams and military contractors, but that about half of his students are people who don’t carry a gun professionally. In recent weeks, he’d worked with a 22-year-old mechanic who’d been robbed at work, a teenage girl, and several married couples. “Everyone has different things they’re preparing for, different threats,” he said.

I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill

A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?

www.wired.com

 

[paul73]

Freedom is scary to the tyrannical left

Well, I do not give a rats ass if it is a left or right government- if that government needs a barb wire and moved in army troops to protect itself from its citizens- that is not a government that should be allowed to govern.

 

[Range is Hot]

Yes. Good.

Now behave yourself with the confines of the Constitution and we're all safer for it.

Having guns and zero training is irresponsible.

If this doofus thinks he's spec ops after a few days of training, I don't think he understands the subject matter.

 

[Spanz]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kv02dkWvE

 

[Lank]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kv02dkWvE

+10 for roll, +25 for quick hop onto picnic table

 

[Spanz]

+10 for roll, +25 for quick hop onto picnic table

I am not up on tactical rolls, but i am pretty sure when you throw a grenade, it is supposed to go THROUGH the window. Crawling over, picking it back up again, and throwing it thru the window on the 2nd try....-40 points for that

 

[AHM]

I am not up on tactical rolls, but i am pretty sure when you throw a grenade, it is supposed to go THROUGH the window. Crawling over, picking it back up again, and throwing it thru the window on the 2nd try....-40 points for that

He bladed away after the second throw, though.

 

[JLopez071]

Huh. Sounds like responsible gun ownership. And for the record... if you’re training to use a gun and it’s not to kill it had better be a taser or nerf gun.

 

[TrashcanDan]

Tactical Jelly Roll

 

[Range is Hot]

all that vid is missing is the laugh track.

 

[jkelly1229]

Tactical Jelly Roll

Hey man on my carrier I got mag holders and snack holders

 

[Shawnyc]

And? They piss and moan that only those with training should be allowed to carry and then piss and moan when people get training?

Fantastic observation. Further proof that reasoning with the left is no longer an option.

 

[Amputee Marksman]

If You're Gonna Die, Die With Your Boots On

 

[Masswhole]

For decades we’ve had organized training to turn people into soccer players too. At least killing serves society.