INFANTRYMAN'S GUIDE: Individual Movement Techniques (IMTs)
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- In this episode of Infantryman's Guide we will discuss individual movement techniques aka "IMTs". IMTs are fundamental for every Infantry Marine or Soldier and can make the difference between life and death and mission accomplishment.
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This was a great watch! Thank you sir!
You Litterally look like the COD 4 cover I love it. War is the only way🤘🏼
Thanks
You look like the Incredible Hulk just sat on your face.
1/4 Bravo !!!!
Remember, the most advantageous or desirable route of travel is also the most likely to be ambushed.
Thats why you need to stay silent and try to move slowly
@p if i was a soldier i would boobytrap the grown parts all around me and put a little sign that they wont recognize and focus on ambushing the trail paths
@Kneon Knight ofcourse you need an escape route
Facts and that's why as a kid I crawled through the woods and learned how to blend in and move like a ant. Strong, virtually invisible, and silent.
same advice for women
mom: are you okay?
me: lowcrawling face first through the lawn in full gear
Lol, same here 🤣
Mood
"Dont mind me, imitating a bulldozer" as i low crawl past.
😂😂😂
ngl, my mom shock too XD
now she frequently mow our lawn , gotta find other place then
I use these tactics for nerf fights with my kids
Ha
Tactical dad incoming!
Be careful of the dreaded anti-dad personell weapon commonly known as "Legos" randomly placed on the battlefield.
@@kidbach Insideous weapons of irregular warfare!
You paint your guns and darts camo...dont you?
Imagine seeing a bush move and your just like "ahh it's just Brent playing in the mud again"
I get mistaken for a bush all the time. does not matter where I am. If not mistaken for a bush then just outright not seen, not processed, they didn't put those pieces together, that what they saw, was a person, I am nearly always wearing a Serbian gortex coat in "oak leaf" or whatever its called. 5 color, very green, colors fairly large. and usually wearing either OCP pants, or french CCE pants. Also have a number of other coats, and parka's, fleck, rain, swiss. In my deepest cold outerwear I look like a giant bloated green bean or something, just solid OD green....2 shades of green called coat, and boots. That's why I stole a blanket from the hospital.
To understand camo, you need to start with understanding observation
Everybody gangsta until a Marine materializes from the tree in front of you
Norcal - As a combat photographer, I had an entire force recon squad materialize right in front of my camera - and I knew they were going to be there. Still startled the shit out of me. Had me thanking God they’re on our side!
@@dustinhaus1165 funny usually people that see me in the woods think they saw a bigfoot and just run away lol
No confy bed
I always like the point-post-sprawl-crush balls technique. It is exactly like the pps technique but with the added step of crushing your balls and unit into an unseen rock, root, or snag. The hidden benefit of this technique is that if the enemy hears you screaming and thinks you are grievously wounded, he will divert fire away from your position.
What the hell lmao 😂😂😂
When they hear your high-pitched voice later, they will assume you are local school girl.
Mother nature is a cruel unforgiving bitch at times lmfao
I hope they put this comment in the textbook, becuase it is so accurate
aka the "Broken Ball Bamboozle"
"I'm up, he see's me, I'm down" haven't heard that in years had to do that for 100 meters as a punishment for leaving my lighter in a harbour area... never smoked a single cigarette after that.
Ha.
I haven't heard that in a long time either!
Smoke a good tobacco pipe.😊
Listen up, folks. For all of you non military, this is the basics of infantry combat, listen to this guy. He knows what he's talking about.
Murphy's combat law 15 "the easy way is always mined."
He goes over not taking the easy likely traveled path in his reacting to ambush videos
22*
@@fujimi715 Returning fire without foot?
ill never forget the ditty they teach at infantry school in the marines. "Im up, he sees me, im down... knees weak-hand prone."
Same thing BCT US Army.
Did they also teach you to say "I need a burst" while timing trigger hold downs on crew served weapons?
@@stevenwojo Marines it's "get some, get some", or "Die mother f@#$ die". 🤷♂️
@@stevenwojo In the marines they teach "die motha - - - -, die" for crew served weapons.
@@stevenwojo they should be talking
i'm watching this for a nerf war against 10 year olds
Worked?
@@esqueletotech5524 prob didn't he ain't answering
Good luck
Real
*taps starts playing quietly in the background
It was twenty years ago in the beautiful state of Georgia, that I learned this. We did it for 8 hours straight in basic training. I had no skin left on my elbows and knees. The left side of my face was scratched and bleeding because we didn't have our Kevlar helmets, only soft covers. God, I miss the screams.
Ha
Correction, it was thirty years ago...
1994 myself 1/38th on sandhill
@@captainmike808 I was there in 90'. Drill Sergeant Warnock was the head Drill Sergeant. He had a face like a bulldog.
84 for me, then Airborne school, then RIP & Ranger School, 4 phases back then. Was one of the soldiers who helped bring the 3/75th Battalion back to life.
Lucky enough to have a brother-in-law who was a recruiter at the time. He made sure I had Unassigned Ranger when enlisting. My entire enlistment was with the 3/75th Battalion & 75th Regiment at Ft Benning Ga.
Hear ole Capt Mixion (back then) is still serving with a Ranger unit.
Thanks for continuing the honor & traditions my brothers in arms.
When I was going through military training, I remember how much I dreaded low crawls, rushes, and the likes. All of that only beat my body up. But man, is it good to know when things go south.
All that training beats your body up but it keeps you alive.
Yup
Fuck low crawling
@Carlos Eduardo Alves Silva take your pills schizo
I was in the navy.Engines to flank. Swerve port to starboard.Wear your kapok vest.
I love how perfectly he depicts the calmness and still before a firefight
Never lay from where you are planning to shoot and never get up from where you were shooting.
Great advice, if you have those options.
@@joegriffith1954 make them, if u don't have them
Real genius solution to his implication of a hypothetical question.
When you come under effective fire -
Dash
Down
Crawl
Sights
Fire
@@zentilgodin3177
A good backup plan is-
Dip
Dodge
Duck
Dive
Dodge
Many years ago, I played paint ball (and yes, I know it's not exactly like real combat) and I was Amazed how quickly I could be spotted and shot. LOVE the video series.
That's why the best of the best in the military go through years of training and selection.
In paintball, I always got the flag...patience was the strategy I employed. I would conceal, wait and watch...find out the movement...find out positions...make a plan.
Paintball taught me an even greater respect for military who fight battles that don't end with 'HIT' and wipe the paint off to fight another round.
Great basic tutorial and no tacticool BS. This is what really works and been proven on the battlefield war after war for generations!
thank you for making and this video, i felt like i went back to my infantry basic training days at fort benning almost 10 years ago. thank you.
And mine at Benning, 40 years ago!
I always like the intros.
McKay Lipscomb: Yeah, Brent's intros R.O.C.K. !!
Sometimes i watch their videos just for the intros
I always like the infos
Incorrect.
Not you.
We!
Mission of the Marine rifle squad: To locate close with. And destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver. Or to repel the enemies assault. By fire and close combat!
Yut
@brent rogers Kill!
@Diarrhea Dave Kill!
@@ChadHuey79 Kill!
@Ken Kill!
Excellent job, Brent. Covering all the techniques, as well as the variations within each technique, is a chore! The reality is that IMT have evolved over the past 50+ years. What the School of the Infantry teaches today is slightly different than 10 years ago...and that is slightly different than 20 years ago...and so on. I believe the Point, Post, Sprawl technique is the latest version of the 3-5 Second Rush. Good stuff!
Thanks Chris.
Point, post, sprawl? That the new name for it?
@@chico056 - Yes. See below...
USMC Ref:
MCRP 3-01A (2012), and sure enough "Dropping Back into Position" is covered on p.6-10 with photos on 6-11.
Excerpt: Dropping Back into Position
It may be necessary to drop back into position to avoid either crowding cover or covering unclear terrain. To drop back into the prone position -
- Face the target.
- Place your support hand on the rail/fore grip/pod and firing hand on the pistol grip.
- Squat to the ground and break your fall with your support hand.
- Kick both legs straight out to the rear.
US Army Ref:
Cobb, M. G. & Graves, T. R. (March 2010). Applying Combat Application Course Techniques to Rifle Marksmanship in Basic Combat Training (BCT): Acquisition and Retention of Skills. U.S. Army Research Institute.
Excerpt: Point, Post, Sprawl - the act of maneuvering your body into a prone firing position. Using one hand to hold the weapon, Soldiers point the weapon towards the target; squat and place the non-firing hand on the ground, post: and kick their legs out behind them to sprawl into a firing position. This appears to be a variation of the USMC technique of "Dropping Back into Position" referenced in MCRP 3-01A (2001).
@@christopherlarsen7788 didn't need the references but thanks lol
how do these differ from nation to nation? i m curious in a wintery context for example, staying behind the blizzard.
The thought of everyone building boutique AR having to do this with their rifles. Lol
As a retired Army 11BB4 1983-2009, this is the part of our skill package that we hate to learn and use but, it will save lives. Even before retiring I found that the Army has deleted a lot of useful skills a Grunt should know. One was conducting a volley fire attack at an enemy vehicle or position. I taught it to the men in my platoon in 2003 with AT-4’s. It’s true when they say we always train on how we fought our last war. We shifted from European theater and jungle skills to arid/desert climate warfare as well as training to fight a more conventional force (other than guerrilla style elements).
I think that many of my fellow Infantrymen on here also cringe when they watch first person video footage of Ukrainians assaulting a dug in enemy with armored vehicle support not to mention aviation and indirect fire assets that can be brought in. It’s as if they gave rifles to the cub scouts and said “go gittum boys!”. They walked right into open/danger areas 30 meters in front of a known position that was engaging them then took a knee behind a 6 inch diameter tree thinking it was good cover as they all looked at each other for what to do next! If this war over there is happening on the scale they say, their Infantry units are seriously not qualified to effectively fight on a battlefield, unless they’re a suicide squad or something. I’ve looked at satellite images of both the Russian and Ukrainian dug in positions and trenches, they don’t make sense in the way they’re chosen and set up, it’s like someone used a dartboard to decide where to put prepared defenses. Yes, they should guard all critical infrastructure sites, all avenues of approach, etc but it’s not happening. And both sides seem to have no clue on how to use a camo net or at least how to do a tactical halt for all convoys. Anyway, I’ll shut up for now.
That's interesting, thank you for your professional insight; you don't think the layered defense the Russians are doing with ww1-style trenches - going back several miles that is multilayered - is sufficient? Surely, if the Ukrainians are attacking like that, the russian defensive networks would crush them by swarming after they breached the first line?
@@dylancounte1448 hello sir, key word in your comment is “react”. There’s different tasks used in reacting to enemy contact/ambush than assaulting a KNOWN enemy position. A US Army or US Marine Corps platoon would use some squads/sections as a base to put suppressing fire on the enemy to keep them under pressure and to reduce enemy weapons fire (it’ll never stop all of it) as a maneuver unit moves to a position on a flank that’s closer to the enemy. At this point we can either “shift and lift” our fire to prevent from hitting our own men as the maneuver element moves into enemy positions and engages at close range or bayonet (which the Army doesn’t use anymore but most of us carry our own any way). We use lots of smoke grenades to screen critical movement and to signal the base unit that we’ve secured the positions or we’re pulling back and to provide more cover fire. Different colors of smoke grenades help us easily communicate even if radios are working, a smoke grenade tells us exactly where our men are and it reduces confusion, same thing with using signal flares. Personally, I’d attack at night since we have quality NOD’s and are well trained to fight at night while most enemies are very lacking and it’s when the enemy is on minimal guard while they sleep.
In Iraq and Afghanistan the enemy commonly used ambush tactics to inflict damage then they would break contact and escape as we would bring up more equipment to easily deal with their ambush, just basic hit and run tactics, I suppose I’d do the same if I had the same weapons they have.
Very interesting. Thank you
A lot of those videos are not real and are just propaganda.
@@JohnDoe-yq9rt Seriously? You’re going with that line? LMAO! The word “footage” applies to more than one video, it means many videos are out there that show the same worthless skills those men are using which is perfect if they want to die. Western Armies train to a MUCH higher standard in our selection and training, we don’t allow low IQ people to join in the first place and our leaders are also well trained at each level of leadership. You’re welcome to live in a fantasy thinking all the available footage online isn’t real but last I checked, Ukraine was getting its butt handed to them by Russia.
WOW! The special effects are through the roof when compared to years gone by! Great work!
Thanks, I'm getting better.
I can hear my Drills right now. IM UP HE SEES ME IM DOWN !!!! Oh good times at Ft Benning
Or getting your foot smashed because its 1° cockeyed and you just got your whole platoon killed..
Oh sand hill.
Indiana Bezerkers Fuckin hated being there but I’d do it all over again
Point Post Sparw!
Just finished BCT at fort Jackson, getting sand into your sleeve while crawing in not an enjoyable experience. Your ACUs start acting like sand paper rubbing your skin.
Nathan 556 Yeah I hate that shit. Had to do a 12 mile ruck after NIC. All wet and sandy and rucking 12 miles= chaff city
You forgot the period of instruction variant, " I'm sleep, he sees me, I'm awake"
Canadians call the last one pepper potting, its the count of "up, he sees me, down". Its also the movement used when assaulting a trench.
I heard the Brits calling it "pepper potting" too. It confused me for a minute, but I recognized it as the Rush as soon as I saw it done. Terminology is different, tactical concept is the same.
Hi Adam, we call it ‘pepper potting’ cos the old timers used to describe tactics with pepper/salt pots years ago at the dinner table 👍🏻
@@r188ops8 im former Canadian infantry, and did not know that, thanks for the heads up. I just remember our Sgts saying that was what it was called
Pro Patria 👍
No worries mate, I wasn’t infantry but worked closely with them (Forward Observer) and that’s how it was explained to us many years ago 🤣👍🏻
I love this, service men from around the world sharing knowledge/history. Outstanding!
Most of this was covered in military science at my school, pretty good stuff and very useful in airsoft too
It be nice to see more airsofters learn from this. Most of the kids I see from videos have no idea what they are doing.
This is very good. Brings back memories when I was in the Marine Corps. This is good stuff because, this is the stuff that does not get reviewed enough. Everyone else is too busy posting CQB and room clearing tactics with SBRs. You are not going to clear tree to tree in the forest. All of that goes out the window when you are in a natural environment. Infantry tactics is soooo overlooked as part of one's training.
My grandpa taught me how to "army crawl" when I was a kid, he was a tunnel rat. I have a vivid memory of him taking me gigging and crawling under a cow gate in pitch blackness with my grandpa giving me directions on how to do it.
Fire and maneuver is the most effective battle tactic I've ever seen, but in a real shit sandwich someone must organize its development with loud commands and usually from the prone himself. I have seen great officers and NCOs accomplish this at their own peril.
Great video lad. Thanks. (Bravo 1/3 '67-'68.)
Great video, brother. It never hurts an old infantryman to review these tactics from time to time. Although, I have to admit, the last time I did any firing and manuevering, I was a whole lot younger, than I am now! Lol! Take care, brother! Thank you for your service!
Ty
Same here bud damn knees lol
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Yeah, I bet it took some time to set up, film, and edit. Good stuff
Ha you know it.
You fail to disappoint Battle. Your efforts to bring us content is greatly appreciated. Thank you again.
Brings back memories of ITS at Camp Pendleton.
Now I know why they wear knee protection.
This video excells from start to finish. It is both effective and possibly very timely. I may not be required to salute, but feel the need.
SAAAAAALUTE !!!
Ty
I'm useless without the knowledge. Thank you gentlemen; the hard work is evident in the content!
Just want to reiterate my gratitude for the this excellent guide you created.
Thank you
Thanks brother, I appreciate it.
I enjoyed It. Our army manual has those paces and crawling funnily named monkey pace, Leopard pace, Ghost pace, cat pace, kitten pace.
Nice
Former 37F, , you civies should pay attention, without a doubt this guy's advice will save your head
I was. SF decades ago. Can't remember. Jack squat. (PTSD) Good to. See. A Warrior. Carry on. - in these days& time. It is. Necessarily for. Everyone to. Get the. Feel. Bob13
This reminds me of some of these tips i was taught on Parris Island in 1980 on the ICT Obstacle Course. Thanks for sharing, you Mighty Awesome Devil Dog. ERRAH!!!
S/F brother.
Awesome info!! I just can't shake the feeling that I'm going to be needing this info over the next several months...
I'm afraid you're correct. Practice it and get comfortable with it, you'll have a big leg up.
Ty
If that's how it goes down, we'll be splintered into a much smaller nation, with major foreign Powers fighting over our country. Please encourage people not to cross the line.
@@joegriffith1954 Don't forget you have a lot of friendly foreign powers as well. We Aussies kinda like you Yanks. :)
@@JohnJ469 Aussies - TEXANS South, or Texans - AUSSIES North.
We 19 Delta Cav-Scouts, used to find ambush spots for the 11-Bravo's. "Hide with pride, Recon."
Yay low crawling... forever, at night, in the open looking for wire. Gosh that was interesting.
Ha
Memories cross the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories...😂
This is one of the best YT-channels of all times !!!
Ty
“I’m up, he sees me, I’m down”
I like that
Standard BCT instruction. This was an awesome by the book video.
I haven't done a low crawl in 13 years since AF Basic. It was a pain back then, but will be even worse now since I'm 32 and no longer 18. Good information.
Thanks
I hv been out of my beloved Corps since 1991. Recent events hv necessitated a revisiting of basic tactics. This video & ur channel are so helpful. Semper Fi.
Thanks for taking the time to post this. Subscribed.
Welcome aboard
I did a low crawl to test my hsgi tacos. Wasn’t anywhere near low. And way to fast. This was a good video on how to do it. Also need bungees for my pouches. Thanks for the video!
Thanks
Our MCT instructor was so pissed he made us do up downs for 45 minutes while we were screaming "I'm up he sees me I'm down".
Damn that sucks.
Boot Camp, Marines 1971, 73 boots at close interval in the sand pit in front of the barracks, the DI on the balcony yelling in rapid secession, get down, get up, get down, get up, get down, roll right roll roll roll, get up get down, roll left roll roll roll, get up,
Ok ladies, bends and motherfuckers, 4 count, 150 repetitions, ready, argggg,
begin,
one two three, one sir, one to three 75 sir.
Stop stop stop, if you can't keep it together, start over again, ready begin.
Good times, now that it's over.
Everything I learned at my first month of ITB I learned in this video
From a former navy gunnersmate looking to go into green side after finishing my graduate degree, major thank you for the videos. We learn more cqb than actual field movements on ships for obvious reasons
looks cool in the movies to be in the army, real war would be scary as hell
That's why we carry spare underwear LMAO
try paintball on a woods field, it's great fun.
@Graham good point, what country you serve differs too. In some countries with active terrorism and less advanced military serving the army could mean you are as good as dead when you are deployed, i see those US Army Fp cam recordings around RUclips and I'm thinking "Holy shit, these guys can not die"
@Graham right? with that I'd rely on United States to protect our shit in case Aliens decide to attack hahaha
Always love your videos man! We all appreciate the education and entertainment you provide!
Ty
Good quality content, never fails to show great techniques.
Now this is the content I want to see. I am a small arms instructor and although I was never in the military I do my best to train like A soldier. With the limited amount of knowledge I have about war. Please keep the videos flowing. My students will very much appreciate the videos!! I have a nephew that made seven 1000 yards shots back to back on a 24"x 24" target with a 6mm creedmore. He is only 13. He then went on to win a skeet match against countless adult men. He even beat his Father. That's what I teach. At 7 years old I taught my niece to take a pistol from a grown man and there was nothing he could do about it!
Nice thanks for watching and commenting.
I taught my. Grandson and. Great nephew. And my nephew. Got. First place out of like 300 kids in shooting and Now. And Arrow
When I was taught the "Point Post Sprawl" method to get to the ground, we were told to squat instead of dropping to our knees.
It also happened to be a similar to the 2 count movement used to get down to the front leaning rest (push up) position. Which, naturally, anyone who ever served is very familiar with.
You plant your feet shoulder width apart. And with your weapon pointing forward you squat down, with your offhand reaching towards the ground roughly between your feet. Then, while supporting your upper body, you kick your feet back behind you (as if you are about to do push ups)and lower yourself to the ground with your offhand in a quick but controlled manner.
This way, it minimizes injuries related to dropping down onto your knees, belly, or face. Or with the buttstock method, people accidentally impaling themselves with their front sight post of their weapon (I knew a guy who chipped a tooth this way).
It can be just as fast as simply dropping down, but is a safer method. And if anything, will save your knees when you are a decrepit 25 year old who have spent too much time walking long distances carrying heavy things.
That's an option you can use for sure.
That does work! Thanks bro
8:55 Recently did this movement technique for my range exercise with the Canadian Army and it really helped cutting down the time and increase my scores during my shoot.
One of the best series. Thank you very much.
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The way of the "GRUNT" should be known by every able bodied male in America the "Minute Man" is never out dated.
"Infantryman's Guide" is a great series of practical drills and skills, from an ole 11B keep up the great work brother.
100% agree brother, thanks for watching & commenting!
When the tall grass are whispering in Vietnamese
Today 24th of February, Russia has attacked The Ukraine. I never thought id spend my day looking at modern military and infantry tactics while considering enlistment in the army while yesterday ive never seriously thought about it. wolrd is truly strange place
Are you alive 😳
Now I finally know the significance of “I’m up. He sees me. I’m down.” Thanks!
The opening shows what 1 Marine & his rifle can do!
SEMPER FI!
This is some of the most in-depth stuff I've FINALLY come across as a Civilian. During all this searching I have been doing, I have a question to all my Fellow American's who are Warfighters ( such as the gentlemen in the vid & who owns this Channel ) and this is my question: WHYY am I having soo much trouble finding things on such as small unit combat tactics, and things that would be considered bread and butter when I first came across them: Learning a Frontal Assault maneuver, AND, how that variates between the different structures and or geography that may be making an appearance as you close in on your destination/goal/kill-point. Other then that, I don't have any others because I'm having trouble finding our boys' techniques & tactics. Is this illegal to be taught by Government decree or something maybe??
Okay, I've asked enough, I appreciate you all. May God Bless You All! Also, P.S., if you have YET to incorporate The King Of Kings Our Lord And Savior Jesus Christ into your life, pleeaase, I stress that you do so. I may not be a solider, but I'm fairly well-read & competent ( yet, not an "Academic" type though by a long shot...if u catch my drift lol ) on all Christian denominations & the overall doctrine, completely and totally. I. AM. HERE. FOR. YOU AS WELL...
Excellent stuff as always. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work!
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What a useful video! Brent never dissappoints.
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The intro alone warrants a thumbs up.
I sustained 2 injuries dropping to my knees to go prone . be especially careful of your selected stopping point and have GOOD knee pads... I ended up going to a modified 3 point sprawl where my knees dont touch. just crouch and extend
That's what we're taught over in the army now
I was in service in the Army in the 80s. I modified my bujinkan training to correct flaws in the technique.
I put the butt of my weapon down first to give me a controlled fall in to the prone position. If there was covered within body length I would opt to roll to that position rather than a straight drop.
@@Dom-py2ow glad to hear they finally fixed it
@@Dom-py2ow that's good its terrible what 1 pointy piece of gravel can do to a kneecap..
Also dont skip leg day because muscle prevents injury and allows a nice snug fit for your knee pads to stay in place.
Thanks for the video, it's interesting to see that we have very similiar tactics here. Better than our trainers showed as they were either showed it too quickly or told us to do it until we got it right. Used to love training in snow as it helped the transitions to prone and was more pleasant to crawl than let's say autumn and spring mud.
Nice, I love hearing from grunts from other countries.
Thank you for these practical insights and techniques. This information will prove to be invaluable in an extreme SHTF environment.
Super helpful. I was already aware of hitting the ground when you come under fire, but I was never taught HOW to get there without slamming myself and my gear into the ground.
Now I've actually got techniques to try/use.
This is how I survive when my girlfriend is on her period.
Yes sir ... the Low Crawl :D
the lowest of crawls
Lol, lol.
Where is that little asshole...
AND WHY IS THERE A BUSH IN THE HOUSE!?
Lmfao! Good one!
An amazing video, they didn't teach us the method of using the M4 to assist in breaking the fall and neither the back crawl at Fort Benning; learned a lot from your Infantryman's Guide.
They did, you're just forgetting
Thanks for these! Just like I was taught at infantry osut many moons ago
going through civilian training in Ukraine, these videos are really awesome. Will definitely review and practice with my guys. Cheers.
Good Lord! How did this end up in my feed? Lol. Ok, I'll watch.
You're gonna learn today!
Better training film than the actual training films.
Ty
Nice to see the techniques I was taught in the 90's are still relevant !
I learned this in the '80's.
Outstanding Brent!
Brings back long lost memories!
Ty
JESUS CHRYSLER JEEP GRAN CHEROKEE! I never wanna run into this guy in the woods. Subscribed
Every time I was saying "ah but what about..." you covered it! A great refresher for old soldiers who should never forget their skills and drills and armed citizens who may be new to all this. In the British Army it's Advance to contact and Fire and manouver. The low crawl is called the leopard crawl and the high crawl the kitten crawl. Establishing a fire base with one team whilst the other zig zag rushes forward then switch and repeat is called Pepper potting. Excellent drills as always. Why did I hear Gunny Highway saying "Mr. I hate America who has been trained to kill you" during the initial scene? Lol. The time, energy and expense plus the freely given access to your expertise brings great credit to you and your team brother. Stay safe, stay low and God bless you and your family.
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Ngl Brent, Thank God your on our side because id hate to be your enemy 😳. There are a bunch of charlatans on youtube when it comes to combat but wisdom and IQ convince me you are the real deal. No gimmicks, just pure combat experience. Once again, thank you for your service and your videos. Things are getting bad and like a student of the game I am Zeroed in ALL of your knowledge. & btw I watch all of your ads to the end to help support your channel. 👍
Thanks, I'm from Poland so will probably need this in the near future :D :D
6:33 damn that's some camouflage
Always run in a serpentine fashion
Ok reporter
Chef boyorde, the master!
SteveVi0lence Eat, fuck, kill. All the same, right?
_"Reporter what the fuck is that ?"_
Reporter what-the FUCK was that?!
The Infantryman’s Guide videos are my favorite ones.
Ty
As a Marine this was the very basics of maneuvering techniques. Great video!
and remember, switching to your sidearm is always faster than reloading
of course that is not technically true!
That's video game crap. Most infantry soldiers don't even carry sidearm anymore. Usually only machine gunners and team leaders.
@@fujimi715 anyone who can get one will carry one- its just most armies don't allow soldiers not authorized to carry one. Pistols definitly can be good in sticky situations.
...and leaves you with two empty weapons ..
Super cool. I want to learn more war techniques, specifically guerrilla warfare.
Start doing area studies/IPB overlays.
Well it is true you can teach an old dog (me) new tricks. Alot has changed in 40 years. Thanks for the update.
essentially exactly what they taught us in Fort Riley back in '96
Seems like a great tutorial of basic individual movement techniques.
On the one hand, I can see how these techniques are useful in a combat scenario. On the other hand, the combat movements do seem a little bit outdated with modern military observation technologies like drones and such.
There's airsofters who are utilizing drones with glock airsoft pistols attached in their war games. I think the military is lacking in their use of technology, and especially in their combat doctrines. Concealment, surprise and assault is the most effective technique for winning battles.
While you might never be able to always have concealment or surprise, it seems very foolish in my opinion to break cover in an assault technique.
If the objective is to kill the enemy without being killed, breaking cover or concealment in an open field during an assault seems like a stupid idea. Ex, running in an open field directly towards fixed crucerve weapons placements. Its one thing to draw fire in order to create a distraction for a pincer movement from the sides...but it would seem stupid to rush a fixed position in a killing field.
Just my opinion tho.
As much as I can appreciate the usefulness and tactical capability of a semi and full auto platform for urban scenarios...
In a jungle or forest or wilderness tactical environment, with lots of cover and concealment, taking advantage of long ranged rifles with scopes for accurate aquisition and a much better chance of killing on the first shot would seem to be the more useful skill.
Not to say infantry don't have their place in combat. But in the long run, I think sharpshooters and snipers with defensive teams prove a more effective harassment to the enemy than infantry alone. Movement of multiple infantry in assault gives up the element of surprise, whereas a sniper team with multiple snipers can send a simultaneous, yet accurate volley without giving up their location, and infantry can defend against a counterattack, which gives everyone in the assault team the advantage of cover and surprise without exposure to enemy fire.
I love Tibosaurus Rex's sniper videos. Would love to see you guys work on a collaboration where you combine infantry assault tactics with sniper team tactics.
The future of warfare is concealment, surprise, and assault from fixed cover.
The days of rushing an enemy from an open field just seems like a foolish tactical decision. Like trench warfare of WW1. Rushing out the trenches and getting mowed down by a machine gun fire. A complete waste of the element of surprise and tactically foolish.
This is a long dead thread but:
Infantry are not outdated and IMTs serve the Warfighting mission. Infantry fill the gap to support Cavalry, Aviation, and Armor against enemy dismounted anti-tank/air elements and to act as Forward Observers of Artillery elements. Diluting the level of specialization by focusing on sniping specifically would take away from the volume of fire an infantry platoon is able to produce (especially in urban environments.) Snipers are the most conditioned fighters in our force. They need to be able to operate alone (your defensive team idea is just a security halt which would be an OPSEC risk for sniping.) That’s why a small contingent of SOF/SOCOM snipers exists while infantry bridge the gap with training for engagements at upwards of 800m using the weapons systems of the platoon sized element (squad serve MGs like the 240B, suppressing small arms fire with the M4 though less effective.) The purpose of IMTs is to prevent casualties for the infantry. Of course an asymmetric enemy can employ measures such as drones, which is why the US is developing handled ECM systems that jam radio signals and disrupt line of sight communications.
To your point check out the videos coming out of Ukraine of supposed trench assaults. It seems like a bit staged right? They’re shooting pows?
Question regarding the low crawl: When I was in, our mag pouches all had lids. With the more "modern" set up's, the pouches are usually open with no lid, usually a bungee securing the mag. With low crawl, do these open pouches load up with dirt and debris? Thanks.
LEO here, love seeing these vids, nice to get to see how the grunts do it, and you learn a thing or 2 for the streets
Ty
Spending my adult life in the Army Infantry, I have never seen a back crawl until this video. Of course we were taught to reduce wire and mined obstacles. I would have liked to have learned that when I was reducing one as getting under the wire to hold it and hand it to my partner who was cutting it would have made it easier to not entangle myself.
Thanks for watching and commenting brother.
I was Infantry also. And I promise you...30 years later I am still learning!
I'm irritated that I attempt to approach military history from the combat level (company to squad and team tactics) because they fascinate me almost as much as weapons design, only to be stifled by the intellectual "establishment" around the subject(s): endless chattering about massive divisions and the rear-area-dwelling politicians (flag officers) who are most focused on by historians/scholars.There is no such thing as "leading" a gigantic unit like a regiment or a division, it is more about giving actual leaders (from the Battalion or Company downwards) their objectives. I am sick and tired of people demanding that I conceptualize warfare in terms of divisions. To do so is impossible and wrong. A division is ~76 companies that may or may not fight together. Squad, Platoon, and Company. Everything "higher" is more of a geographic/organizational concept.
Now you're preaching to the choir, Reverend Parker. But preach on!
I am an author of The Small Unit Tactics SMARTbook (1st~3rd Editions) by The Lightning Press. This title is sold through AAFES and it is issued reading at the US Army JFK Special Warfare School as well as the Naval Special Warfare School. And the reason for this book? Almost exactly as you have described above.
When we (LTC Norm Wade and I) began this project back in late 2006, that was our point - "small unit" to us meant the absence of a battle staff in the command element! Fireteam Leader, Squad Leader, Platoon Leader, and Company Commander. What do they all have in common? No battle staff to support them! But a commander of a battalion, brigade, division, corps, army, or even joint task force all have enormous battle staffs that serve to help each commander make detailed plans and informed decisions. While I understand why the US Armed Forces insists on calling division, brigades, and battalions "tactical units," these large units are certainly NOT "small tactical units." And again, the defining characteristic of a small unit is the lack of a battle staff.
I was equally disappointed to learn that while a person may seek a graduate degree in military strategy, such as at the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA, or a graduate degree in military operations such as at the US Army Command & General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS - nowhere can a warrior earn an advanced degree in military tactics! Well...to hell with that! I know where you can get an education on this topic (outside a 20-year career in the US Armed Forces).
One Shepherd Leadership Institute offers a 42-day Warrior Leader Program that is divided into six separate 7-day semesters. Most of our warriors complete this program at a rate of two semesters per year over a 3-year period. Some have finished it quicker, and some deliberately slow it down to one semester per year over a 6-year period. But I promise you, it is an excellent school to learn command leadership of small tactical units conducting dismounted patrolling operations. This is small unit tactics! Join us.
Look up the books by John Stryker Meyer titled "Across the Fence" and "On The Ground". I love them, and can't recommend them enough to people with the same interests as you.
Christopher Larsen I was a Marine infantryman during the middle stage of OIF. We rarely saw the company commander, much less the BN commander. 98% of the time, corporal or sergeant were the highest ranks in your immediate vicinity. Everyone else was someone you could talk to on the radio, maybe. Looking back at 34 now, that was a lot of responsibility for a 21 year old me!
@@IrishPennant0311 - Agreed! Looking back at myself when I was a 20-year-old corporal and was seen as the epitome of wisdom and knowledge by my rifle squad of teenagers... well, it certainly gives meaning to the term "strategic corporal." Our decisions could have far reaching consequences in the geo-politics of the time!
That is why some military scholars insist the separation of strategic, operation, and tactic is an anachronism - because they are so compressed in todays instantaneous communicative media. But I say, rubbish! An understanding of how tactics impacts operations, and how operations impact strategy is more critical now than ever before. It is compressed in time and space. So, we better master it - not ignore it!
@@TheAKgunner: Yes, "Across The Fence" was awesome. ANyone wanting to actually "feel" what it was like across the border in the jungle in Laos, with a team of 3 Americans and about 6 Montagnards and NVA all over the place, plus special units dedicated to searching for MACV-SOG teams needs to read this...2 things that were kind've creepy in that book, 1) When they were camoflaged hidden that one time and the NVA soldier inadvertantly touched Meyer's jungle boot...and just kept on moving..I guess he didn't want to start something, and the time they spotted the enemy aircraft in Laos with the Red Star on it flying. Great stuff, and since they all signed a non-disclosure statement a lot of that stuff wasn't able to be talked or written about till the 1990s.
GTG Devil Dog! Keeping me motivated and reliving flashbacks as a USMC Riflemen and 75th Ranger Team Leader! Staff sucks hahah Semper FI!
S/F brother
I sat down to eat some chips and salsa and enjoy a video. Clicked start, looked away from the screen for a moment to go in for a salsa chip dip, and then all hell broke loose!
Man was I startled!
FIRST LESSON, ALWAYS BE PREPARED.
Boy, brings back memories when I was in Fort Knox in 1980.