Several things to say. 1: please please please keep this series going, both urban and wilderness 2: if you think someone is behind a door that you want to cross, you can peek between the door and the frame without exposing yourself. 3: everyone in this video rocks
@@chasesmith5123 nah still depends where you at my door has this ledge, that you cant see past on both sides. And this is the only way i have seen doors and i live in arizona.
This is how I trained my US Navy Green Ranger Scout Coast Guard SEAL Paratactical Controller Recon EOD Delta Operators…it’s fool proof, I know, I was the enemy they killed😂😂
My time in the Infantry taught me a few things. People have hesitated or froze in the doorway. Most people will never overcome this fear no matter how much they train. Don't forget to train your mind for battle, tactics are only a fraction of it.
Straight up Master class. Some things in here you'll only find in years of experience, and one of the biggest drops of info in like the first 3 min. "a lot of problems can be solved from outside". Some things I want to add is working in an urban environment is hard. Way harder than rucking mountains. I know here they are slick, but you won't be. Depending on support, you may be doing this with a small sustainment load. If you have to go from house to house to house, sprinting across streets, covering every door window and alley... you're going to be exhausted and you'll feel your techniques slipping. Fight the urge to get sloppy. Next, mobility is king. Be light, those haligan tools, cook sets, sleeping systems are going to feel like anchors. If you're doing more than just one building, consider your loadout and bring mission essential items ONLY. Stage the rest. One of the nice things about cities is there is an abundance of scavengeable items.
Oh yeah, big time bro. Most of the time probably going to be going in full combat loadout with pouches all over your kit, plus the good old assault pack. Main pack will usually be staged at an area not too far away. General population tends to think you will survive an entire war with 4 mags and a 32oz hydro flask. When their ticket is called, they’re going to be very disappointed
Your gun will feel like an anchor depending on weight. Mine went from 9.1 to 7.2 lbs the week after I did an 8 hour non-stop CQB rifle course in an old school.
The footwork about 5 minutes in is gold. In Japanese taijutsu, that kind of walking/footwork was taught to samurai and shinobi in order to navigate around corners without telegraphing their positions with their swords sticking out of the doorway. In other words, there's nothing new under the sun. Old ninja CQB used similar movement patterns as modern CQB. Really cool and useful stuff y'all!
I absolutely LOVE to see this type of content. For too long there has been a ridiculous aversion to teaching civilians how to fight. This information being disseminated to We the People, on such a massive platform, signals a shift in mindset... and that's fantastic. Keep up the GREAT work!
@@Capt_McNugget that was my thought exactly. Hell, new special forces CQB guys probably got some kind of thermal radar they just point at the wall and know everything in the room/ house..
I don't understand vets that hate civilians with guns. From the BRCC to a couple of the dudes from GBRS group, they have said things that show clear contempt for civilians with weapons and seem like they would love to blow them away.
@@rodiculous9464 80% is a ratio. It's irrelevant if there's 100 casualties or 10,000 casualties. It just means a large chunk of casualties are probably from engagement in CQB.
@@rodiculous9464 every instance of Fallujah was a bloodbath for both sides. My uncle lost his entire team there and was the only one to survive during an entry. He was army and he even said what the Marines experienced there was true hell. I will always have the utmost respect for any man that willingly walked into Fallujah. The strays ate good for awhile.
I don’t know much about room clearing or CQB but one time my gold fish committed suicide by jumping out of his fish bowl & we gave it a funeral by flushing it down the toilet.
Uvalde showed us many things and reinforced many lessons - including that you can spend all the money on gear but if you don't have the training or the mindset, you won't matter when it matters.
The problem with combat in an urban environment is that everyone underestimates how _dangerous_ it is. Unless you have training and have drilled the needed techniques for _hundreds_ of hours you _will_ make mistakes and it _will_ cost lives. I experienced this time and time in Afghanistan when supporting ANA (afghan national army) troops in the south when clearing villages close to Kabul in 2003/2004...
Yeah the best way to conduct urban combat is don't. If you're the defender, you have to put up all kinds of defenses in order to deny ingress, and if you're the attacker, you have to deal with 360x360 sniper hides while negotiating the aforementioned field expedient defenses.
I don't plan on clearing an unknown house, but if there are signs someone is in my own house, you better believe I'm going room by room. I think this is more useful than people realize
@@RawDoggin_78 does anyone know what the guy with the helmet said around 8:25 when he said "unless you wanna be ******* and point the gun at the back of his head" i assume he said alec baldwin but do you happen to know?
This could’ve been 10 hours and I’d watch it multiple times, these are some of the best videos you’ve done. Keep up the good work and training material.
Been practicing this for almost 20 years (hundreds of hours), including some training with tier ones and swat and I consider myself "not too bad" level at most. You gotta practice 10000 hours to be good and even so unless you have 3-4 buddies that has same amount of practice as you, you can't do shit. Best advice they give is : looking for work. That's the polite version of : find something to fuck with. There's always some angle to cover, doors to check, corners to clear. If you stand there gun down, dick in hand, you're doing something wrong.
Something I love about Garand thumb is that he’s always wary about the word usage that’s being said and always stops to explain things for the sake of truly teaching us
I'd love to see a video on CQB where you show the challenges of tackling stair ways, rooms with multiple door ways and generally more challenging buildings to clear.
For those who don`t know (and a lot seem nt to know): Urban combat / movement / operations doesn`t have to mean CQB. CQB was invented for very specific situations. Originally hostage rescue scenarios but also "Police" operations in inhabited areas. Strongly based on and for the US tactics and experiences in the global war of/on terror and iraq. For example there are a bunch of very interesting videos on urban combat by John Spencer out there. As for ignoring/bypassing cities: What do you think happens if you cut the power and water supply to a city for lets say 6 weeks? What happens if you include food? Especially combined with a pandemic!? If you are interested in the result just take a look at Bergen Belsen when the uk army took it over at the end of ww2 and combine it with what happened in the countryside west of Berlin when/short before the red army took it.
GT, some time back you asked us what sort of content we wanted to see more of. At the time, I said I liked the gun reviews, because I appreciated your perspective and honesty. My feelings about that remain true. However, for reasons, this series has become my favorite content that you produce. This was an incredible video. I can't want to see the next one. Thanks so much for making this sort of thing available to so many people! Hopefully, none of us ever need it.
As someone who lives in MN that has both heavily urban and forested areas, this series and the RECCE series are both very informative. Thank you Garand Thumb for sharing your expertise on these subjects. Simple and informative and very easy to follow along.
@@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329 roughly 45 minutes southeast of St Cloud and I went to college 12 miles from the Canadian border. I spent a lot of time in the woods but my hometown is pretty urban.
@@arengreen8906 nice. I'm an hour and a half north of you rn at camp Ripley but I'm from southern MN. Yeah I know what you mean with both recee and urban survival being applicable here a lot. It's all woods and farm lands dotted with a lot of towns that have a lot of manufacturing areas in particular.
@@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329 sadly with how close I am to the cities we’re becoming more and more urban down here. A lot of construction companies have been buying up a lot of farmland and developing it into suburbs.
Just became a 1st time dad 2 weeks ago and I gotta say, Micah's advice was really eye opening and hit home. I was doing exactly what he said he did with his first. I gotta just enjoy him as he is now as much as I can because he's gonna grow up in a blink of an eye. Thanks for the dad advice Micah ❤
The lesson about information processing is so underappreciated when people learn clearing. I once had an instructor tell me while at an active shooter response class “You can’t drive faster then your headlights.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard a phrase so simple yet so detrimental.
@@metalmaster1224 got it, but in sentence it sounds like you're talking about the phrase and it sounds like you intended for the phrase to be simply and beneficial
I hope people realize the wealth of knowledge in this video that is being taught to you for free. Garland thumb you are the man for bringing these men in
Just to let everyone know the arc movement for the threshold evaluation does not work in compressed environments and tight hallways, especially if you have 1 or more men trying to cross angle cover or plate and cover, or working with a shield man. That is why teaching compressing the rifle, snapping to a threat and to take angles of the room in increments is important as to not telegraph your rifle. Very often you may not be able to arc across a doorframe. If you can learn everything with minimal room to manuever. Then when you are in more open environments everything else becomes easy, especially in regards to telegraphing and picking up other angles. Which allows the arc movement to work and to either look through or over your sights. Some people are making comments about being in the fatal funnel, "fallacy" or the door/ doorframe isn't cover. In regards to that, That is why you don't run right through the door unless your throwing bangs or grenades first. You can ask all the iraq Fallujah vets. They can tell you a thing about that. Everyone thought dynamic was the way to go until you run into a machine gun nest. In Iraq and Afghanistan those mud frames will definitely take up the rounds. In most modern urban buildings the frames are made up of metal and surrounded by cinder block, "not homes." If you keep your femoral and your center line behind that marginal cover, you can stop most pistol caliber rounds and possibly rifle rounds. Time and place for every tactic and manuever. Some are better then others to use at different times. You can have a right answer to a situation, but it may not be the A+ answer. You want to try to get the A+ answer as much as possible.
I've had no training what so ever but try to learn incase I ever have to deal with a home invasion. I've figured out what you said about no room to arc pan. I did notice the more I compress the rifle the more I can pan without crossing the threshold so I'm not seen. I think this could be scientifically attacked. It looks like the muzzle a foot off the threshold on a corner allows me to pan quite a bit. I'd like to see a protractor or someone with actual training and expertise break this down more for people like me. Could probably even weld something up with a protractor under it and how at certain distances you can pan more degrees. If everyone were to hold there muzzle about at the same and and a inch or so off the corner as well as the rifle vertical so you don't blast dry wall. Unless they had the rifle angled and were further off the wall, whichever. I just wouldn't mind even a ten min vid of a break down of what you said with a little geometry approach.
@@chrishall1479 easiest way to show you this is have a dark room and have a flashlight inside the room you are assaulting. Weather it is a person inside the room, most helpful, or place the flashlight on a stationary object pointed towards the doorway in your direction. You will see the shadow cascading off the frame at the angle the light is shining, simulated, "bad guy". From there you can see your footwork and your muzzle to see which hits the light first or not at all if you angle and distance correctly. It is helpful when you have someone inside the room and they either put the light directly under their chin or center chest to simulate their precise field of view and they can tell you when you telegraph as well as when you see light hit a portion of you or the weapon. After practice and reps you learn at what angle and distance approximately, or method of manipulating your weapon to use so you can stay concealed as much or as long as possible until you are ready to take the next angle or have as minimal exposure as possible. Other methods are taping up the floor at a 45, 90 and 135 degree angle off each door frame. Flashlight is easiest however. Even though ronin is not the originator of this he demonstrates it in an easier way to see and perform. Fast forward to 4:30 min. th-cam.com/video/qNPXSnT_p2k/w-d-xo.html Again to clarify ronin is demonstrating a technique that ufpro eli goes into depth on, which he has his own company project gecko. You can find project gecko also on Facebook. Cherry tactical has a different approach to telegraphing as he doesn't care because he assumes he is shooting everyone in the room. Both of them state this comes from the Israelie military but developed different methods of their own. You can now find people like warrior poet society, field craft survival and GBRS group, tactical rifleman all demonstrating different versions of this same modality of limited entry.
Totally agree, especially when you have kit on it’s a bitch. Running Sims at Swat school with LASD was the shit. Going through different structures at different speeds for multiple circs was really good training. I’m 6’0 240lbs athletic and going through hallways or tight spaces was a nightmare. 90 percent of the time I had to transition to pistol for any threat assessment from the doorway. Great comment 🤘🏽
The last couple sentences are the truth. Sometimes you can do everything 100% right and still get smoked. You can't prevent it, you can only try to put the odds in your favor.
Mike, Thank you for doing your part to help educate us. Because of you and others around me I got fit and train. I wear my kit and I'm working hard to not be a liability to those around me. It's inspired my children and drawn respect from my wife. Thank you for your encouragement and inspiration to everyday men who are capable of far more than they realize.
@@NamelessAndAlone137 I think most of us would go all Wolverines if shit hits the fan. Live up in the mountains and come into the urban centers to just cause havoc on the opfor.
This level of teaching on CQB hasn't been seen since the series done by UFPRO and Eli from project geko. But obviously this is for dynamic entries. Look forward to seeing more from both this and the wildness series.
@@callsignjoker2686 i agree. Especially depending on context. Taking elis course and good notes. Sets you up really well for understanding what clearing a room entails. And sets ypu up for working in a team dynamic.
Aaaaaaah, I still remember a few years back, when this Orion dude was trash talking as hell about Eli from Project Gecko in regards to his LP concept. Now it is the new hotness it seems, and he is all about it, a total ripoff, with a lot of mistakes. And what even is this Dorito concept? If any of you guys are serious about learning CQB, with an ever evolving and proven data record, attend a class from Eli and you will be humbled.
Was about to say, Eli's methods - especially footwork - are on a different level compared to these guys. The whole arcing around the door with feet moving sideways compared to the direction of the barrel doesn't seem right at all. Coincidentally, Eli has a video on why this is bad form and how to actually pan a room without projecting your position to anyone inside.
Amazing video that actually gave great things to train with vs a lot of other videos being tacticool and rushing, this is legit guys who use this and teach it. Have a very good family friend who was a special operator did this a million times and was still shot and wounded clearing a house in Iraq but the fluid movement of his team saved his life neutralizing the threat so there’s no guarantee you’ll make it out no matter how proficient you are and people need to realize that
Best 30 minutes of my life. Thank you for teaching me room clearing in a way that I can actually understand it, and thank you for being the first people I've actually seen talk about corner entry rooms. Please do more Urban survival training.
these guys are the shit! he almost lost me when he said "it seems self explanatory" but when he followed up with "is that why we're doing a video?" I was back in it. great humor. Exactly the kind of presentation style that keeps me locked in
Ok, Mike keeping a side profile to the camera at the beginning of the night vision segment then turning to the camera to reveal he's wearing GPNVGs was definitely a flex.
Way things are headed, information like this is becoming more prescient by the day. It's good to have people willing to put this out there for noobs like myself to learn from.
I'm form Germany and I love this series of you - I laugh so much with you and also like to learn basics and training methods about the american military service and system and their including knowledge. CQB is a big theme and there is so much to teach about - its dangerous in all ways. I'm curious for next coming videos and appreciate those types. Thanks man and grand thumb up for you. ✌🤜🤛
@@garand_chad6731 aus'm schönen BW - viel Fläche und Raum um zum Beispiel außer tourigen trainings durch führen zu können, ohne das dich jeder befragt, weil die Thematik Waffen in Deutschland ja leider so verschrieen ist.
I just did the Lead Faucet CQB Instructor course and it was a great experience. Learned a ton while having fun. Dan and his team are very knowledgeable in this field. I highly recommend getting out there and getting the training because if you don’t know what you are doing and you do it for the first time you will absolutely die. Stay hungry men.
I love this series so much for all of the knowledge bombs that Garand Thumb drops on us, especially for those that don't have nearly as much experience as him
One point on the forearm grip they keep showing: this is one of the most tiring ways of holding your rifle and you will gradually adjust down to basically a mag hold or just in front as you tire. You may want to train that hold from the beginning because if you do this for long, or start out sucking from the infil, your grip length will be according to your arm stamina anyway. I was nothing fancy, just Infantry, so sharing is caring!
I also discovered that how I gripped the fore end changed slightly the position of my shoulder joint and that affected how fast I could position my rifle and how long I could hold it.
I’ve heard many people say this. Can confirm just from dry drilling that holding the gun like an “operator” gets tiring. My support elbow will go from being more parallel with the ground to sagging down more and I’ve kinda just adapted a more middle position.
Just an average joe that larps in the basement here. But that cool guy c clamp is gona start to suck real hard after about the 5-10 mins. Especially with the amount of crap I see on rifles
The footwork bit is super important and i love the attention to detail they give it here. I also really enjoyed the weapon manipulation bit - I prefer 14.5" barrels so seeing ways to work around the extra length when maneuvering in CQB is always refreshing to see rather than just seeing people only using 10.5" barrels.
First time I ever cleared a room I took 2 rounds to the chest. So I loaded the last save check point and cleared it flawlessly after throwing all 4 frags and quick saving
Can I just say, I absolutely love these videos. As someone with no military experience, having exposure to your thought processes and tactics is awesome. As much as I hope I will never have to be in this situation, as a man you SHOULD be ready if you do...
Very much appreciate the introduction to concepts. Yes, it takes years to properly master, but seeing it done properly (rather than the movies) is a good foundation that more of us need.
@johngallagher3732 Navy's training is not something to laugh at I was in myself in 2020 and it wasn't that much of a joke, they also overhauled their training to 13 weeks similar to the marines instead of 8 weeks. They don't hand you your phone at all until after you leave RTC regardless if you quit or because of medical or you graduated unlike apparently the army now. RDC's weren't very soft far from it the card system gets a lot of laughs but I have seen P-day recruits black carded and its relentless many would break bones some couldn't even restart after it healed because it shattered and they had to wait a year or two to heal enough to be sent home for and then given surgery to usually replace with a rod. Others are 4-6 months out and so on. So while I use to laugh about how easy basic was going to be. I can promise they pulled no punches. The only thing I didn't see happen was manhandling recruits outside of one because for some reason that insane kid kept starting fights and kept getting his ass beat at that. RDC's were definitely not kind to him. Another I watched get thrown out of his rack and then held until MP arrived kid was crazy. For how much we love to laugh at different branches the navy's basic is far from easy but it's a ton of fun at the same time. PT tests sure were definitely easier. 1.5 miles in 8-9 minutes which if you run at all shouldn't be hard to complete that should be a bit above average for a normal kid anyone who has ran cross country or track easily would pass that. It's based on age so the younger recruits had a bit harder time than those of us a couple years older but it wasn't a massive difference. They changed situps for a 1.5 minute plank to pass and most of us found that even with minimal core training you could go 3-5 minutes by a number of methods that wouldn't fail you. Because you had to have a standard plank form but by tightening and clenching your ass cheeks you can usually go double to many times above 1.5 minutes. Ah the gallery yeah eating was dependent on how fast you got your food, those at the front had more time to eat than others. Talking was a big no you'd lose your ability to eat by talking at all. Those at the back maybe got 5 minutes and some days you had a minute or two to eat. Battle stations you have to pass before graduation and it's the most fun you'll ever have....long as you don't mind eating one meal and don't sleep for I think it was 48 hours but it may have only been 24 hours and it's straight through in numerous tests as if you were on a ship for a plethora of scenarios and after that you don't sleep so I think battle stations is 24 hours and then its another 24 with no sleep though that varied for us it was a full 48 hours... other divisions may have gotten 4-6 hours of rest. There's no stress cards btw unlike again with the army. I also believe the whole point of the 13 weeks was to expand upon hand to hand combat firefighting and other schools since RDCs do act as babysitters up until week 2-3 where if your division figures its shit out you basically have it much easier. Watches were generally much shorter about 2-4 hours per watch with a couple times at 8 hours and during battle stations to after could be a 12-24 hour watch.
This was my most underdeveloped skill as an infantryman. When GT was saying it takes years of training with one team to be proficient he wasn’t kidding. Military or civilian; grunt or POG-don’t underestimate how hard this is.
No kidding. I got a week at the old UWC with my squad before deploying. Clearly not enough to be any use to the 11B's we were supporting. Funny thing though, people think I was some kind of Delta Force commando when playing Insurgency Sandstorm. HaHa!!
I remember training for months straight, prepping for live fires just practicing day in and day out everyday. It takes that long to become efficient, and even when you are proficient, you still need to practice to keep that rust off. Even on the day of live fires we are practicing up until it was our turn. You can never train enough, always be looking to improve.
I took my first CQB class last week; never got any of it in the Army. We used the Mantis Blackbeard system and it was highly informative. There is a shoot house that uses UTM, airsoft, or lasers to deliver a ton of reps at a variety of price points. This laser class was only $100 and extremely informative with tons of practice reps. Luckily I have a readiness group in my neighborhood and will be taking my squad here to do more reps, since the shoot house is only 10 min from my house and always changing configurations
In OIF/OEF we always used a surprise bang or Surprise grenade prior to clearing any room. We made entry and there where two RPK's focused on the door and it got messy really quick! I hate CQB but it is a necessity if you live in an urban environment. Thank you very much for taking the time to show this because so many people will hear a bump in the night and try and clear their house. If someone out there does clear their house make sure you know exactly where your family members are in that house and positively identify the threat before squeezing that trigger! Semper Fi!
I just wanna say I love that people like you want to give the common people the tools they need to train at the same level the military does. Normal citizens with the capabilities of a military force could mean the difference between occupation and liberation. I'm glad you're out here providing resources for people to start their journey to becoming a fighting force. Bless you!
In guam we used to play "my military unit" against the local swat team, and the defender having knowledge about room clearing is actually a HUGE disadvantage for those clearing the room. They are predictable, they follow their training to a T, and do very specific things. For example the left right left right entry, where they stand outside the rooms, and how they move around the kill cone. We very often could take out their entire team by taking advantage of that. 9 times out of every 10 if the room defender knows how to clear a room, the team CLEARING the room are always at a disadvantage with one exception, element of surprise. Now if your engaging a bunch of untrained terry morons? Sure, they will be completely overwhelmed and supressed by those clearing the room. Ive taken every possible CQB course the military offered, and several in the civi world, pro tip, dont "go through the motions" like a robot. Because if your enemy also knows the tactics used by a CQB combatant you WILL lose. So we had to actually stop using tactics vs tactics in the games, because almost every time the defenders would win. But if we used the CQB tactics against teams that DONT know what to do, the attacking team would almost always win.
CQB works best with overwhelming numbers flooding the structure almost simultaneously the speed and flow overwhelming. Small teams doing predictable corner digging against a motivated one or two guys willing to die are going to take 80 percent casualties on average in the CQB meatgrinder I agree with you fully spent years in 2nd Force Recon This shows civilians just enough to get killed
@@kovona are you speaking in terms of airsoft? Or real life. Because in real life they are WAY easier to beat if you know what the tactics are and how they work, the routines they use, the "motions" they go through, and how their going to react to certain things in response to you. For example. Breaching always has the team all packed into one area, usually all facing the same way except for the rear guard, and all on one side of a hall, or against a wall so they can maximize speed and efficiency while entering. Each going in to cover their designated sweeping area. Each person that goes in has a "section" of the room they look too first to clear. The following person will always choose the opposite area to the previous etc. But lets pretend for a moment they attacked my home. You know your home best. They generally try to do home raids at times when your asleep so you cant b3 waiting for them, and heres the MAIN reason why. Just about every rifle round that exists will wizz right through an entire house like a wet paper bag. So if you were prepared and waiting, the most effective method is knowing where they are and simply firing through the walls. I have survailance that is solar powered to a LAN network, so they cant just chop my power and barge in. I would know exactly where they were at all times. And just wait for them to attempt a breach. Very rarely do they do that window bullshit, that requires a helocopter and or easy QUIET roof access. Thats mainly hollywood nonsense. My house is hardened specifically against these types of techniques. Reinforced doors that REQUIRE a blast charge, shatter proof film on the windows, and "surprises" placed under the siding on the house near entry points, triggered remotelly. I have better gear now than I ever did in the military, so if they made a single oopsy poopsy and didnt manage to get a perfect surprise drop its all staged in the house to be equiped in a couple minutes. Full armor, gas mask, choice of NVG or Thermals, helmet, peltier muffs. Hell I could pop smoke in the basement and make it hell for them. Most swat teams dont carry thermal, only NVG. NVG doesnt work in smoke. Teargas, wont work. Flashbang. Wont work. When you have your gear on they can go off a foot from you and it does nothing. I could prattle all day, but moral of the story is these tactics rely MAINLY on stealth and speed. If they are faced with direct opposition, or worse..... someone who is literally WAITING for them, they get massacred. Read up on anti ambush tactics, how guys were trained in places like mountain areas in iraq, dealing with squads are similar to that. These things are very rock paper scissors when face to face, but its heavily dependent on situation. Who got the drop on who, and who reacts in the right way the fastest. And a bit of luck. All it takes is for the rookie of their squad to have a negligent discharge into your house and it just so happens to fly through the house and hit you in the eye in your well prepared defense possition by pure luck. When going up against someone who knows what your going to do next, you have to either be better than them, or switch it up. I know whos comming into the room, which way their rifles will be pointed, which way they walk and turn, which way the next guys looking, how many stay behind, why their out there, and most importantly what they do in response to a direct threat. What they do in response to an overwhelming threat. What they do in case of man down, or squad down etc etc. Think of it this way. Its like hunting, and im leading the target. An untrained person is trailing the target. A trained person is on target. A trained person who knows exactly what your about to do next is leading the target. Best methods. Entry points are "killzones" they will avoid being in them at all costs. Try to get in close, and always try to be at an angle so not the entire squad can engage you at once. Danger close causes confusion and hesitation, the equipment they have on doesnt make them invincible. Shotguns, or anything with a high rate of fire is best here. Remember their legs, crotch, feet and arms arent protected, nor is the face. Goggles and gas masks dont stop rounds. So dont be like the dumb bad guys hidden behind a couch well within the room. Pre emptive attacks are best, but if your on defense then getting as close as possible is best. Deny access to the room if possible and keep them bunched up. Most people dont have explosives but here is where they end the conflict effectivelly. Like i said we can speculate, but unless you gave me a scenario with exact perameters I cant tell you how every situation would go down or what best to do. Train. Run courses. Get familiar with CQC. Personally im the Jerry Miculek type, I can hit 6 tiny targets before most people even got the gun out of their holster. But heres probably the best advice of all. Just dont be the guy whos on their radar to raid and you will never have to test whos better.
I love CQB videos, Mike Glover has one of my favorites on 1 man CQB(Because unfortunately you don’t have trained team members on your six 24/7)It’s great information for people who have not been formally trained by the government, but have the desire to learn and understand these techniques… Great video.
@@aaronlee2371 I took one of their classes, instructor didn't feel like coming so his assistant, some random Miami swat douche, filled in and it sucked ass. he ran out of ideas halfway through so he just had us mag-dumping for no reason in the middle of the ammo shortage of 2020. 10/10 would avoid giving him more money.
I think I found my new place on TH-cam and my new favorite channel. 👍🏽 I love the adult humor on this channel and the fact they don’t stray away from cursing or saying whatever is on their minds. Keep it up because our citizens need this information brother 🤙🏽
That’s the best dad advice I’ve seen on this channel 😂 (This comment is not at all intended to criticize or belittle any other dad advice on this channel 😁)
Toss a frag before entering a building, learned that in the beginning of the GWOT. Also, if they play dead, shoot 'em in the face so you know they aren't suffering, and can't shoot. Much love ;-) Thanks for the videos, super informative.
So cool, and coming from actual Service men. As a firefighter I love to see the experienced teaching what they have learned to keep the new and inexperienced safe. keep up the good work.
Been looking forward to this series returning. All the videos from rifle setup, to basic pack setup, now training/clearing. I like where it's going and I honestly don't think you can ever do too much in this series. It might be a bit odd and maybe you could find a better real world place, but there are a ton of paintball parks around with full on "cities" and stuff and it would be cool to see you do a scenario where you're a survivalist just trying to make it through or around the place, maybe trying to get into a store for some snacks and back out.
Awesome content! Now do a video for the express purpose of countering and disrupting those room clearing tactics. If you’re on the other side of the door from one of those teams what can you do to protect yourself from those tactics? A family member of mine in Guatemala stopped an entire team with caltrops, spike pits, wasps, and something to do with a volleyball net “impregnated” with large treble hooks. The team was not law enforcement fyi.
Wow, thanks to all as this is one of GTs best videos ever IMO. Room clearing techniques have changed dramatically since this old 11B received his first training at Fort Lewis in 1980-81.
Bravo!! Please keep these up, this is the kind of information that is going to save someone's life one day. Whether that is stacking up for the Super Mutant hideout, or avoiding that single man CQB
Bro dont ever stop making videos!!! There awesome and ive learned alot as a new shooter!! Thank you for your service and teaching ppl how to protect themselves and others. Great job dont ever stop
I had a cqb instructor who used to say “sometimes you realize you got a shit sandwich, and the only thing you can do is just decide how big of a bite you’re gonna take out of it”. I think that’s good advice.
Played paintball for years, then airsoft , I know it's not the same but it does teach you basics of room and building clearing because after you have been shot with a paintball from only a couple feet away you learn pretty quick how to do things better, it can sting quite a bit and even hurt pretty good sometimes lol , I've talked about this with my buddies before we all came to the same consensus that if we could help it we would not want to be in that situation with real firearms if we can help it,
Its not the best but it is one of the only ways to practice the moving through a hostile building against other people especially if players take it seriously
Speaking as a member of a regional tac team for a statewide agency, I will say that unless you put in reps day after day, week after week, month after month, and think about these things even when you aren’t training…you’re gonna have a bad time. My current team have only been training together for a year and we are just now getting that N*Sync vibe. Stay righteous, safe, and dangerous folks.
If you practice a lot you become pretty good at it. The footwork and everything so you feel confident. And then the instructors fire some shots in the building and immediately you get tunnel vision then you realise it is only the beginning of your training. Everyone in your videos are always very good at explaining how and why to do things. This is the best CQB video I have seen so far.
As a cop whose only CQB training was a couple of days in the academy where the instructors just kind of half-assed it and messed around, thank you. So far in sim training I’ve done since then it’s been enough but I still don’t have a lot of faith in myself
When I was a firefighter, I agreed to be the “bad guy” in our PD’s “kill house” (a repossessed drug home). The level of training I’m seeing here and there is night and day. I once got domed while I had my hands up and I was on my knees. The trainer’s experience was being a paratrooper in Iraq. Nobody else on the SWAT team had any real combat experience and it showed. What both of these really show me is how fucking dangerous a prepared firing position is when it comes to entering a room or building. When we were allowed to do whatever we wanted, outside of a script, it was always cake to defend the home if we knew and were allowed to react to the entry point.
@@PhilosoraptorXJ yeah our department’s SWAT team has nobody with combat experience except for one dude that did some a couple deployments as a Ranger and he hasn’t been through SWAT school yet so he’s not technically even on the team. And it’ll be years before they actually take the time to get him through. The joys of working for a suburban PD that would rather prioritize big ticket numbers than officer safety and appropriate training
I trained a lot with 2nd recon in my time in the Marines. Some of that still sticks with me. One day when my wife and I got home from shopping we smelled cigarette smoke in the house and she got scared by the potential intruder. I cleared every room in the house like this. Anyways it was just a ghost
Dang...591,319 views and 41k likes on August 4, 2022 being having been a July 31, 2022 release. Respect. This is doctorate level CQB having been a Marine, SERT, and narcotics entry trained. Truly amazing to get this level of talent, methodology, and lesson plan in one video.
Very great video Mike, I think this video and Mike Glovers video of clearing rooms is great and teaches a lot of A. If you can, have multiple people with you and B. It’s not theatrics, everything done is entirely deliberate and meant to not expose yourself too early.
I cant thank you enough for these videos as somebody who lives in a country with 84 murders a day this type of info is priceless especially for firearm owners. Most people in my country get firearms and thats it they hardly train or even get information like this. Eternally grateful 🙏😎💪
Another takeaway from this: Avoid situations where you have to defend a room. There are a lot of well trained people and there's a lot of good information out there for free.
@@Opsgermanysoldier yeah and this is a great video on room clearing but they did not go over booby traps or trip wires at all. and if you're assaulting someone who is a little more serious about their security then you should expect to encounter all manners of fuck your day up that you will never see coming. all in all assaulting a building is an ordeal of extreme risk and whatever you're going in there for better be damn worth it.
0:40 That video was of extreme importance to me. My room was a bit dusty so i took my broom and went to sweep it and I guarantee I almost died at least 37 times. This video saved my life, thanks GarandMan!
@@oriontraininggroupllc2782 do you guys just strong wall every room? No points of domination? Also. Flying your gun on entry. What if someone is by the door? Are you going to shoot them bazooka style on entry? Or worse, have to throw them to the center of the room while holding your rifle like a bazooka?
Hello from Russia)). I want to share two cases: the 1st case is when you go to the address and the body is sitting and waiting for you. Believe me, he will see you first and will pour you so much rice that you will stop loving sushi. the 2nd case is when they pour rice to you right away, and you haven't even entered the house yet and haven't said hello. All this looks beautiful, but in real life, there will be no such grace. There will be: tra ta ta ta ta. Good luck and love life. You r Awesome
Having cleared mom's basement multiple times, I've come to a startling conclusion: Really need to clean. Also, CQB would most likely result in my totally timely death. Stuff's scary. Nothing but respect for people who do that professionally.
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Garand Thumb literally recommended Airsoft for CQB training like a couple videos again So tell me you don't listen to his content without telling me you don't listen to his content
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz If you play Airsoft, sure, most fields have people running around like headless chickens. If you use airsoft guns to train with a group of people with the same goal in mind (recreating a real CQB scenario), it is a valid and - relatively - cheap solution to put training to test.
Great channel mate , very professional with humour, nailed it ! Keep up the good work, helping civilians with tactical knowledge. I love watching all your different episodes with different subject matter
1. Priorities of work: while entering a space. Dead, Room, Living..... 2. Threat priorities: Armed person, open door, unarmed person, closed door. Good videos.
Crazy amount of information to work on, thanks for bringing these dudes on, they are based and help in explaining a very dangerous and complicated thing to do. One thing I am hoping you do for this urban survival series is to cover approach to a AO or building, we always talk about cqb but for one to even get to that appoint you have to get to the objective or building, what does it look like to make your approach on a building that is defended. As if things do get bad there's plenty of buildings that you may need to end up getting to.
I actually watched the video slowly multiple times and did this all in my own home multiple times and now i feel like the toss i take clearing out rooms is more in my favor. Thank you for this really well made and laugh full video. Everything said here felt like it was years of experience worth in just about half an hour.
No it takes a lot of practice. Combatants, booby traps, random shit falling, Incoming grenades, being not in the perfect mind set, the knowing your coming and being able to hide well. You possibly being out of shape (not a marathon runner). You gotta train for all these and then some. Even still you could just die.
@@zacharywilburn7253 Of course, all those things come to play i agree, thus i said the coin toss. You just never know what's on the other side of that door.
Very good and simple breakdown of the basics of CQB. I enjoyed that you included night vision and IR lasers as many people outside the military have probably not used them. CQB is definitely a terrifying thing that you must train thoroughly on but this video provides a good core base to work off of. Thank you and keep these urban survival videos coming! They are the best!
Several things to say.
1: please please please keep this series going, both urban and wilderness
2: if you think someone is behind a door that you want to cross, you can peek between the door and the frame without exposing yourself.
3: everyone in this video rocks
2: if you think somebody is behind the door, dump a whole mag thrue it and the walls around it..last thing in life I wanna do is shoot, not peek
@@chasesmith5123 nah still depends where you at my door has this ledge, that you cant see past on both sides. And this is the only way i have seen doors and i live in arizona.
Tactical FACT right hurrrr
Milspec Mojo can out shoot all of these guys
@@overall3307 totally agree man
COD CQB training:
-Sprint in
-Slide
-Jump to cancel slide
-180 that camper
replace the jump to cancel with, turn around immediatelty since jumpt to cancel wont work in mw2
@@juliangriffiths9583 bunny hop around corners that will do it
This is how I trained my US Navy Green Ranger Scout Coast Guard SEAL Paratactical Controller Recon EOD Delta Operators…it’s fool proof, I know, I was the enemy they killed😂😂
Just use frags galore 😊😅😅
Ay bro 😂
My time in the Infantry taught me a few things. People have hesitated or froze in the doorway. Most people will never overcome this fear no matter how much they train. Don't forget to train your mind for battle, tactics are only a fraction of it.
i was told that its similar to jumping, the scariest part is leaving the plane
The second guy can just push the fucker in.
That's why #2 man is right behind you to shove you in the door so everybody doesn't die in the fatal funnel.
and trust the guys coming in with your to make that entry and get your back
This is why the 2nd man is usually the team leader and most experienced one so they can push the first guy through if need be and keep things flowing.
As someone on the spectrum, I really appreciate homie going through it step by step.
"we'll go through it one more time just incase you are retarded" he really was looking out for you!
90% of the dod is on the spectrum this is how it’s explained to everyone haha
@@nicholaslangdon6384 why I think I might fit in lmao
Spectrum😂
@@nicholaslangdon6384 I am the f&*King spectrum.
Straight up Master class. Some things in here you'll only find in years of experience, and one of the biggest drops of info in like the first 3 min. "a lot of problems can be solved from outside".
Some things I want to add is working in an urban environment is hard. Way harder than rucking mountains. I know here they are slick, but you won't be. Depending on support, you may be doing this with a small sustainment load. If you have to go from house to house to house, sprinting across streets, covering every door window and alley... you're going to be exhausted and you'll feel your techniques slipping. Fight the urge to get sloppy.
Next, mobility is king. Be light, those haligan tools, cook sets, sleeping systems are going to feel like anchors. If you're doing more than just one building, consider your loadout and bring mission essential items ONLY. Stage the rest. One of the nice things about cities is there is an abundance of scavengeable items.
Oh yeah, big time bro. Most of the time probably going to be going in full combat loadout with pouches all over your kit, plus the good old assault pack. Main pack will usually be staged at an area not too far away. General population tends to think you will survive an entire war with 4 mags and a 32oz hydro flask. When their ticket is called, they’re going to be very disappointed
Ounces equals pounds……..pounds equals pain
Well I would hope in a certain scenario you would have explosives to just fight or down the whole house if it's a guaranteed battle or shoot house.
Your gun will feel like an anchor depending on weight. Mine went from 9.1 to 7.2 lbs the week after I did an 8 hour non-stop CQB rifle course in an old school.
@@Apolloneek sometimes your family is in the house
The footwork about 5 minutes in is gold. In Japanese taijutsu, that kind of walking/footwork was taught to samurai and shinobi in order to navigate around corners without telegraphing their positions with their swords sticking out of the doorway. In other words, there's nothing new under the sun. Old ninja CQB used similar movement patterns as modern CQB. Really cool and useful stuff y'all!
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Why the fuck would samurai room clear like that?
@@mikeking3400 I heard it’s in order to navigate around corners without telegraphing their positions with their swords sticking out of the doorway.
It's almost like we're rediscovering how to fight to win. So much was lost when european war tactics became the norm.
@@thedeathchimera lol
I absolutely LOVE to see this type of content. For too long there has been a ridiculous aversion to teaching civilians how to fight. This information being disseminated to We the People, on such a massive platform, signals a shift in mindset... and that's fantastic. Keep up the GREAT work!
Enemies are watching this also
@@Capt_McNugget that was my thought exactly. Hell, new special forces CQB guys probably got some kind of thermal radar they just point at the wall and know everything in the room/ house..
@@meanmadmonkey7762 lol yea exactly like they couldn't afford FLIR. Good old Garand Thumb uses thermal just larping airsoft
I don't understand vets that hate civilians with guns. From the BRCC to a couple of the dudes from GBRS group, they have said things that show clear contempt for civilians with weapons and seem like they would love to blow them away.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972 I've shot with some ex mil guys ex cops. Not all of them are great at shooting
When I was in Fallujah in 2005 our Company Commander told us that in a CQB environment that we are in we can expect a 80% casualty potential
cqb is the most dangerous thing
USMC basic expectations
Did you really suffer that many casualties? It seems like the US military doesnt really take too many casualties in general.
@@rodiculous9464 80% is a ratio. It's irrelevant if there's 100 casualties or 10,000 casualties. It just means a large chunk of casualties are probably from engagement in CQB.
@@rodiculous9464 every instance of Fallujah was a bloodbath for both sides. My uncle lost his entire team there and was the only one to survive during an entry. He was army and he even said what the Marines experienced there was true hell.
I will always have the utmost respect for any man that willingly walked into Fallujah. The strays ate good for awhile.
I don’t know much about room clearing or CQB but one time my gold fish committed suicide by jumping out of his fish bowl & we gave it a funeral by flushing it down the toilet.
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Uvalde showed us many things and reinforced many lessons - including that you can spend all the money on gear but if you don't have the training or the mindset, you won't matter when it matters.
Exactly..
Especially the mindset.
Their mindset was to let students/staff die and arrest anyone trying to interfere.
And exposed c o r r u p t i o n, high to low.
Yup I mean what was that SAS soldier on vacay in Africa? And he went in with just basic gear and saved a lot of folks? Just him and mind set.
The problem with combat in an urban environment is that everyone underestimates how _dangerous_ it is. Unless you have training and have drilled the needed techniques for _hundreds_ of hours you _will_ make mistakes and it _will_ cost lives. I experienced this time and time in Afghanistan when supporting ANA (afghan national army) troops in the south when clearing villages close to Kabul in 2003/2004...
Well in call of duty I just spam slide/cancel and 360 no scope everything in the room. EZ
That’s only because you have a ROE, if you just grenade spam every room it’s Pretty simple
@@Squimd based
Good to know 20 year old deployment keeps your up to par 😂 I bet you were a fobbit
Yeah the best way to conduct urban combat is don't. If you're the defender, you have to put up all kinds of defenses in order to deny ingress, and if you're the attacker, you have to deal with 360x360 sniper hides while negotiating the aforementioned field expedient defenses.
I don't plan on clearing an unknown house, but if there are signs someone is in my own house, you better believe I'm going room by room. I think this is more useful than people realize
@@DeeboComing fed detected opinion rejected
@@GTAVALE the oompa loompa with uzi
@@RawDoggin_78 does anyone know what the guy with the helmet said around 8:25 when he said "unless you wanna be ******* and point the gun at the back of his head" i assume he said alec baldwin but do you happen to know?
@@DeeboComing idgaf
Me and my brother had to clear our house after a home evasion with knives after school. Anything can happen for sure
This could’ve been 10 hours and I’d watch it multiple times, these are some of the best videos you’ve done. Keep up the good work and training material.
A forty hour course would just about scratch the surface
Been practicing this for almost 20 years (hundreds of hours), including some training with tier ones and swat and I consider myself "not too bad" level at most.
You gotta practice 10000 hours to be good and even so unless you have 3-4 buddies that has same amount of practice as you, you can't do shit.
Best advice they give is : looking for work. That's the polite version of : find something to fuck with.
There's always some angle to cover, doors to check, corners to clear. If you stand there gun down, dick in hand, you're doing something wrong.
Something I love about Garand thumb is that he’s always wary about the word usage that’s being said and always stops to explain things for the sake of truly teaching us
He's a dad, he wants to make sure the dad knowledge sinks-in properly.
Agreed, im glad i know Jared wears a size 2 small crye pants
I'd love to see a video on CQB where you show the challenges of tackling stair ways, rooms with multiple door ways and generally more challenging buildings to clear.
For those who don`t know (and a lot seem nt to know):
Urban combat / movement / operations doesn`t have to mean CQB.
CQB was invented for very specific situations. Originally hostage rescue scenarios but also "Police" operations in inhabited areas.
Strongly based on and for the US tactics and experiences in the global war of/on terror and iraq.
For example there are a bunch of very interesting videos on urban combat by John Spencer out there.
As for ignoring/bypassing cities:
What do you think happens if you cut the power and water supply to a city for lets say 6 weeks?
What happens if you include food?
Especially combined with a pandemic!?
If you are interested in the result just take a look at Bergen Belsen when the uk army took it over at the end of ww2 and combine it with what happened in the countryside west of Berlin when/short before the red army took it.
Totally agree just commented that!! Cause an open door is easy but when it’s closed or when you have to tackle stairs ways. It’s a lot different
Enlist cant give all the secrets away.....
Multi room is not difficult with a good team... stairwells are 4uck3d... for many reasons
There are other good videos here on TH-cam that cover these scenarios. Take in all the information while we still can.
For people new to this, the examples he gives to every day, mundane situations like "Doritos speed", are incredibly helpful.
The amount of helpful content mixed with hilarious humor was amazing and a joy to watch. Thank you!
GT, some time back you asked us what sort of content we wanted to see more of. At the time, I said I liked the gun reviews, because I appreciated your perspective and honesty. My feelings about that remain true. However, for reasons, this series has become my favorite content that you produce. This was an incredible video. I can't want to see the next one. Thanks so much for making this sort of thing available to so many people! Hopefully, none of us ever need it.
yeah I don't even waste my time with gun reviews anymore. its all tactics now.
@@nunya1877-p4f Yeah and it's not yeah and its
@@RandomVidsforthought Was that a 'tactical' grammar correction? XD
@@eljefeamericano4308 I'm helping you
@@RandomVidsforthought Oh, I'm not saying otherwise. I'm just entertained by the whole thing.
As someone who lives in MN that has both heavily urban and forested areas, this series and the RECCE series are both very informative. Thank you Garand Thumb for sharing your expertise on these subjects. Simple and informative and very easy to follow along.
Where from in MN?
@@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329 roughly 45 minutes southeast of St Cloud and I went to college 12 miles from the Canadian border. I spent a lot of time in the woods but my hometown is pretty urban.
@@arengreen8906 nice. I'm an hour and a half north of you rn at camp Ripley but I'm from southern MN. Yeah I know what you mean with both recee and urban survival being applicable here a lot. It's all woods and farm lands dotted with a lot of towns that have a lot of manufacturing areas in particular.
@@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329 sadly with how close I am to the cities we’re becoming more and more urban down here. A lot of construction companies have been buying up a lot of farmland and developing it into suburbs.
Mn represent
Just became a 1st time dad 2 weeks ago and I gotta say, Micah's advice was really eye opening and hit home. I was doing exactly what he said he did with his first. I gotta just enjoy him as he is now as much as I can because he's gonna grow up in a blink of an eye. Thanks for the dad advice Micah ❤
The lesson about information processing is so underappreciated when people learn clearing. I once had an instructor tell me while at an active shooter response class “You can’t drive faster then your headlights.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard a phrase so simple yet so detrimental.
Did you mean to say "detrimental" or something like "beneficial" instead?
@@simonedaniel Thats what i was thinking?
@@simonedaniel overthinking a situation faster than you’re processing information can have pretty detrimental effects to a mission.
@@metalmaster1224 got it, but in sentence it sounds like you're talking about the phrase and it sounds like you intended for the phrase to be simply and beneficial
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
I hope people realize the wealth of knowledge in this video that is being taught to you for free. Garland thumb you are the man for bringing these men in
This information is very basic and outdated. Also there was nothing survival in the vid.
@@akatoshmorgul9367 I guess not being killed while clearing rooms in an urban environment isn't surviving, who knew...
Garland
@@akatoshmorgul9367 its presentation and ease to understand the information plus its accessibility makes it not outdated, and not "basic".
G D Garland!
Some of the best dad advice I've heard in a while there at the end. Truly based, thank you.
I agree 150% thank God that dude said that hopefully that cuts to people's souls. I've been free from pornography for about 6 years now
100%. Was already thinking about taking a course from them. That sent it home.
The dad advice at the end was spot on and an amazing way to top off on what was already such a valuable video!
Just to let everyone know the arc movement for the threshold evaluation does not work in compressed environments and tight hallways, especially if you have 1 or more men trying to cross angle cover or plate and cover, or working with a shield man. That is why teaching compressing the rifle, snapping to a threat and to take angles of the room in increments is important as to not telegraph your rifle. Very often you may not be able to arc across a doorframe. If you can learn everything with minimal room to manuever. Then when you are in more open environments everything else becomes easy, especially in regards to telegraphing and picking up other angles. Which allows the arc movement to work and to either look through or over your sights.
Some people are making comments about being in the fatal funnel, "fallacy" or the door/ doorframe isn't cover.
In regards to that, That is why you don't run right through the door unless your throwing bangs or grenades first. You can ask all the iraq Fallujah vets. They can tell you a thing about that. Everyone thought dynamic was the way to go until you run into a machine gun nest. In Iraq and Afghanistan those mud frames will definitely take up the rounds. In most modern urban buildings the frames are made up of metal and surrounded by cinder block, "not homes." If you keep your femoral and your center line behind that marginal cover, you can stop most pistol caliber rounds and possibly rifle rounds. Time and place for every tactic and manuever. Some are better then others to use at different times. You can have a right answer to a situation, but it may not be the A+ answer. You want to try to get the A+ answer as much as possible.
Golden comment right here... should be pinned.
I've had no training what so ever but try to learn incase I ever have to deal with a home invasion. I've figured out what you said about no room to arc pan. I did notice the more I compress the rifle the more I can pan without crossing the threshold so I'm not seen. I think this could be scientifically attacked. It looks like the muzzle a foot off the threshold on a corner allows me to pan quite a bit. I'd like to see a protractor or someone with actual training and expertise break this down more for people like me. Could probably even weld something up with a protractor under it and how at certain distances you can pan more degrees. If everyone were to hold there muzzle about at the same and and a inch or so off the corner as well as the rifle vertical so you don't blast dry wall. Unless they had the rifle angled and were further off the wall, whichever. I just wouldn't mind even a ten min vid of a break down of what you said with a little geometry approach.
@@chrishall1479 easiest way to show you this is have a dark room and have a flashlight inside the room you are assaulting. Weather it is a person inside the room, most helpful, or place the flashlight on a stationary object pointed towards the doorway in your direction. You will see the shadow cascading off the frame at the angle the light is shining, simulated, "bad guy". From there you can see your footwork and your muzzle to see which hits the light first or not at all if you angle and distance correctly. It is helpful when you have someone inside the room and they either put the light directly under their chin or center chest to simulate their precise field of view and they can tell you when you telegraph as well as when you see light hit a portion of you or the weapon. After practice and reps you learn at what angle and distance approximately, or method of manipulating your weapon to use so you can stay concealed as much or as long as possible until you are ready to take the next angle or have as minimal exposure as possible. Other methods are taping up the floor at a 45, 90 and 135 degree angle off each door frame. Flashlight is easiest however.
Even though ronin is not the originator of this he demonstrates it in an easier way to see and perform. Fast forward to 4:30 min. th-cam.com/video/qNPXSnT_p2k/w-d-xo.html
Again to clarify ronin is demonstrating a technique that ufpro eli goes into depth on, which he has his own company project gecko. You can find project gecko also on Facebook. Cherry tactical has a different approach to telegraphing as he doesn't care because he assumes he is shooting everyone in the room. Both of them state this comes from the Israelie military but developed different methods of their own. You can now find people like warrior poet society, field craft survival and GBRS group, tactical rifleman all demonstrating different versions of this same modality of limited entry.
Totally agree, especially when you have kit on it’s a bitch. Running Sims at Swat school with LASD was the shit. Going through different structures at different speeds for multiple circs was really good training. I’m 6’0 240lbs athletic and going through hallways or tight spaces was a nightmare. 90 percent of the time I had to transition to pistol for any threat assessment from the doorway. Great comment 🤘🏽
The last couple sentences are the truth. Sometimes you can do everything 100% right and still get smoked. You can't prevent it, you can only try to put the odds in your favor.
As an old time SWAT guy,this info was great!During the day,we had no experienced pros.Great video!
Man it must be fun, I'm currently working to be in the SWAT @ 19 years old
I ran into the same problem as a corrections swat guy. I had to quit due to the embarrassment.
If you quit any kind of special forces from embarrassment you were never gonna make the cut bud
Mike, Thank you for doing your part to help educate us. Because of you and others around me I got fit and train. I wear my kit and I'm working hard to not be a liability to those around me. It's inspired my children and drawn respect from my wife.
Thank you for your encouragement and inspiration to everyday men who are capable of far more than they realize.
Real man right there, well done brother👍
Thank you for this! Glad the urban survival videos are still coming! Please do more as well as RECCE/desert and mountain fighting!
Yes, RECCE!
+1 on the Mountain fighting
@@kevinwood8916 thats very good as well. Perfect for where I live.
Absolutely on the mountain fighting. I live in Utah and if something happens I wanna be able to evade to the mountains and be safe.
@@NamelessAndAlone137 I think most of us would go all Wolverines if shit hits the fan. Live up in the mountains and come into the urban centers to just cause havoc on the opfor.
This level of teaching on CQB hasn't been seen since the series done by UFPRO and Eli from project geko. But obviously this is for dynamic entries. Look forward to seeing more from both this and the wildness series.
@@callsignjoker2686 i agree. Especially depending on context.
Taking elis course and good notes. Sets you up really well for understanding what clearing a room entails. And sets ypu up for working in a team dynamic.
Aaaaaaah, I still remember a few years back, when this Orion dude was trash talking as hell about Eli from Project Gecko in regards to his LP concept.
Now it is the new hotness it seems, and he is all about it, a total ripoff, with a lot of mistakes.
And what even is this Dorito concept?
If any of you guys are serious about learning CQB, with an ever evolving and proven data record, attend a class from Eli and you will be humbled.
This is all very basic and those guys are not masters at it.
Was about to say, Eli's methods - especially footwork - are on a different level compared to these guys. The whole arcing around the door with feet moving sideways compared to the direction of the barrel doesn't seem right at all. Coincidentally, Eli has a video on why this is bad form and how to actually pan a room without projecting your position to anyone inside.
@@dingusmcgringle9741 dynamic being violent? Yes. If you're not in actual cqb then you don't.
This is why I love GT's channel. He drops valuable knowledge and also knows when to have fun with silly videos.
Some might say...he's based
Amazing video that actually gave great things to train with vs a lot of other videos being tacticool and rushing, this is legit guys who use this and teach it. Have a very good family friend who was a special operator did this a million times and was still shot and wounded clearing a house in Iraq but the fluid movement of his team saved his life neutralizing the threat so there’s no guarantee you’ll make it out no matter how proficient you are and people need to realize that
Best 30 minutes of my life. Thank you for teaching me room clearing in a way that I can actually understand it, and thank you for being the first people I've actually seen talk about corner entry rooms. Please do more Urban survival training.
these guys are the shit! he almost lost me when he said "it seems self explanatory" but when he followed up with "is that why we're doing a video?" I was back in it. great humor. Exactly the kind of presentation style that keeps me locked in
Ok, Mike keeping a side profile to the camera at the beginning of the night vision segment then turning to the camera to reveal he's wearing GPNVGs was definitely a flex.
It would be interesting to see a video where you go over how to defend a building against an enemy room clearing
Way things are headed, information like this is becoming more prescient by the day. It's good to have people willing to put this out there for noobs like myself to learn from.
Stick to the topic and be respectful.
Just who the fuck do you think you will be fighting?
If a fool can learn, it means a criminal can do it easily.
If students learn... a terrible result
Great comment and very true.
I'm form Germany and I love this series of you - I laugh so much with you and also like to learn basics and training methods about the american military service and system and their including knowledge. CQB is a big theme and there is so much to teach about - its dangerous in all ways. I'm curious for next coming videos and appreciate those types. Thanks man and grand thumb up for you. ✌🤜🤛
Danke mien brüder
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Sehr lobenswert
Aus welchem Bundesland bist du?
Komme aus Hessen
@@garand_chad6731 aus'm schönen BW - viel Fläche und Raum um zum Beispiel außer tourigen trainings durch führen zu können, ohne das dich jeder befragt, weil die Thematik Waffen in Deutschland ja leider so verschrieen ist.
@@Josh-jp4kh Mit airsofts nehme ich an?
The ending is legit the best I've ever seen on this channel. Please do more work with Orion Training Group in the near future.
I just did the Lead Faucet CQB Instructor course and it was a great experience. Learned a ton while having fun. Dan and his team are very knowledgeable in this field. I highly recommend getting out there and getting the training because if you don’t know what you are doing and you do it for the first time you will absolutely die. Stay hungry men.
I love this series so much for all of the knowledge bombs that Garand Thumb drops on us, especially for those that don't have nearly as much experience as him
One point on the forearm grip they keep showing: this is one of the most tiring ways of holding your rifle and you will gradually adjust down to basically a mag hold or just in front as you tire. You may want to train that hold from the beginning because if you do this for long, or start out sucking from the infil, your grip length will be according to your arm stamina anyway. I was nothing fancy, just Infantry, so sharing is caring!
I also discovered that how I gripped the fore end changed slightly the position of my shoulder joint and that affected how fast I could position my rifle and how long I could hold it.
I’ve heard many people say this. Can confirm just from dry drilling that holding the gun like an “operator” gets tiring. My support elbow will go from being more parallel with the ground to sagging down more and I’ve kinda just adapted a more middle position.
Train. Then train more.
Just an average joe that larps in the basement here. But that cool guy c clamp is gona start to suck real hard after about the 5-10 mins. Especially with the amount of crap I see on rifles
Just train more. It’s not that difficult… especially when your life depends on it. Great point on cqb from an infantry man though…🥴😂
The footwork bit is super important and i love the attention to detail they give it here. I also really enjoyed the weapon manipulation bit - I prefer 14.5" barrels so seeing ways to work around the extra length when maneuvering in CQB is always refreshing to see rather than just seeing people only using 10.5" barrels.
Did not expect that the Gospel to be spoken at the end of this show. That was pretty awesome!
First time I ever cleared a room I took 2 rounds to the chest. So I loaded the last save check point and cleared it flawlessly after throwing all 4 frags and quick saving
I was lucky, I found the hidden armor and med packs in the previous level, so I didn't need to re-load.
Thats pretty lucky. I used to be like you but then I took an arrow to the knee....
Pfft. I have plot armor. I roll into rooms and flick headshot everyone like Shroud
And here @CalebFarris, *clinking metal* is your Purple Heart. Thank you for serving our country with Valor.
This is why we stand 😤
Can I just say, I absolutely love these videos. As someone with no military experience, having exposure to your thought processes and tactics is awesome. As much as I hope I will never have to be in this situation, as a man you SHOULD be ready if you do...
Very much appreciate the introduction to concepts. Yes, it takes years to properly master, but seeing it done properly (rather than the movies) is a good foundation that more of us need.
The stuff they say here is exactly what I’ve learned in the Navy, glad to see that we are up to date in some areas
Go update your nfaas
@johngallagher3732 Navy's training is not something to laugh at I was in myself in 2020 and it wasn't that much of a joke, they also overhauled their training to 13 weeks similar to the marines instead of 8 weeks. They don't hand you your phone at all until after you leave RTC regardless if you quit or because of medical or you graduated unlike apparently the army now. RDC's weren't very soft far from it the card system gets a lot of laughs but I have seen P-day recruits black carded and its relentless many would break bones some couldn't even restart after it healed because it shattered and they had to wait a year or two to heal enough to be sent home for and then given surgery to usually replace with a rod.
Others are 4-6 months out and so on. So while I use to laugh about how easy basic was going to be. I can promise they pulled no punches. The only thing I didn't see happen was manhandling recruits outside of one because for some reason that insane kid kept starting fights and kept getting his ass beat at that. RDC's were definitely not kind to him. Another I watched get thrown out of his rack and then held until MP arrived kid was crazy.
For how much we love to laugh at different branches the navy's basic is far from easy but it's a ton of fun at the same time. PT tests sure were definitely easier. 1.5 miles in 8-9 minutes which if you run at all shouldn't be hard to complete that should be a bit above average for a normal kid anyone who has ran cross country or track easily would pass that. It's based on age so the younger recruits had a bit harder time than those of us a couple years older but it wasn't a massive difference. They changed situps for a 1.5 minute plank to pass and most of us found that even with minimal core training you could go 3-5 minutes by a number of methods that wouldn't fail you. Because you had to have a standard plank form but by tightening and clenching your ass cheeks you can usually go double to many times above 1.5 minutes. Ah the gallery yeah eating was dependent on how fast you got your food, those at the front had more time to eat than others. Talking was a big no you'd lose your ability to eat by talking at all. Those at the back maybe got 5 minutes and some days you had a minute or two to eat.
Battle stations you have to pass before graduation and it's the most fun you'll ever have....long as you don't mind eating one meal and don't sleep for I think it was 48 hours but it may have only been 24 hours and it's straight through in numerous tests as if you were on a ship for a plethora of scenarios and after that you don't sleep so I think battle stations is 24 hours and then its another 24 with no sleep though that varied for us it was a full 48 hours... other divisions may have gotten 4-6 hours of rest.
There's no stress cards btw unlike again with the army.
I also believe the whole point of the 13 weeks was to expand upon hand to hand combat firefighting and other schools since RDCs do act as babysitters up until week 2-3 where if your division figures its shit out you basically have it much easier. Watches were generally much shorter about 2-4 hours per watch with a couple times at 8 hours and during battle stations to after could be a 12-24 hour watch.
@johngallagher3732Navy has VBSS and quite a few other tactical response type deals outside of SW.
This was my most underdeveloped skill as an infantryman. When GT was saying it takes years of training with one team to be proficient he wasn’t kidding. Military or civilian; grunt or POG-don’t underestimate how hard this is.
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No kidding.
I got a week at the old UWC with my squad before deploying.
Clearly not enough to be any use to the 11B's we were supporting.
Funny thing though, people think I was some kind of Delta Force commando when playing Insurgency Sandstorm.
HaHa!!
I was very very fortunate to be attached with 2nd recon on a MEU. They taught us a TON of CQB
I remember training for months straight, prepping for live fires just practicing day in and day out everyday. It takes that long to become efficient, and even when you are proficient, you still need to practice to keep that rust off. Even on the day of live fires we are practicing up until it was our turn. You can never train enough, always be looking to improve.
I took my first CQB class last week; never got any of it in the Army. We used the Mantis Blackbeard system and it was highly informative. There is a shoot house that uses UTM, airsoft, or lasers to deliver a ton of reps at a variety of price points. This laser class was only $100 and extremely informative with tons of practice reps. Luckily I have a readiness group in my neighborhood and will be taking my squad here to do more reps, since the shoot house is only 10 min from my house and always changing configurations
What and where is this shoot house? Sounds neat.
@@rickyricardo5441 it's in eastern Washington state
@@Paintplayer1 Name of facility?
@@rickyricardo5441 defensive action center
@@Paintplayer1 Awesome looking place. Thanks for sharing.
In OIF/OEF we always used a surprise bang or Surprise grenade prior to clearing any room. We made entry and there where two RPK's focused on the door and it got messy really quick! I hate CQB but it is a necessity if you live in an urban environment. Thank you very much for taking the time to show this because so many people will hear a bump in the night and try and clear their house. If someone out there does clear their house make sure you know exactly where your family members are in that house and positively identify the threat before squeezing that trigger! Semper Fi!
I love that Lucas gets so much credit for his skill set. Kudos.
I just wanna say I love that people like you want to give the common people the tools they need to train at the same level the military does. Normal citizens with the capabilities of a military force could mean the difference between occupation and liberation. I'm glad you're out here providing resources for people to start their journey to becoming a fighting force. Bless you!
These boots on the ground lessons and examples are miles above your usual monologues at the range in terms of educational content. Great work
That was the most epic “Dad advice” yet! Great vid guys super interesting!
In guam we used to play "my military unit" against the local swat team, and the defender having knowledge about room clearing is actually a HUGE disadvantage for those clearing the room. They are predictable, they follow their training to a T, and do very specific things. For example the left right left right entry, where they stand outside the rooms, and how they move around the kill cone. We very often could take out their entire team by taking advantage of that. 9 times out of every 10 if the room defender knows how to clear a room, the team CLEARING the room are always at a disadvantage with one exception, element of surprise. Now if your engaging a bunch of untrained terry morons? Sure, they will be completely overwhelmed and supressed by those clearing the room. Ive taken every possible CQB course the military offered, and several in the civi world, pro tip, dont "go through the motions" like a robot. Because if your enemy also knows the tactics used by a CQB combatant you WILL lose. So we had to actually stop using tactics vs tactics in the games, because almost every time the defenders would win. But if we used the CQB tactics against teams that DONT know what to do, the attacking team would almost always win.
CQB works best with overwhelming numbers flooding the structure almost simultaneously the speed and flow overwhelming. Small teams doing predictable corner digging against a motivated one or two guys willing to die are going to take 80 percent casualties on average in the CQB meatgrinder
I agree with you fully spent years in 2nd Force Recon
This shows civilians just enough to get killed
So how did you vary it up?
@@ShadowReaper-pu2hxthey took a bird to safety and nuked the site from orbit.
So what's the basic idea when defending against these sort of CBQ tactics? Just always cover a doorway from the right side of the attackers?
@@kovona are you speaking in terms of airsoft? Or real life. Because in real life they are WAY easier to beat if you know what the tactics are and how they work, the routines they use, the "motions" they go through, and how their going to react to certain things in response to you. For example. Breaching always has the team all packed into one area, usually all facing the same way except for the rear guard, and all on one side of a hall, or against a wall so they can maximize speed and efficiency while entering. Each going in to cover their designated sweeping area. Each person that goes in has a "section" of the room they look too first to clear. The following person will always choose the opposite area to the previous etc. But lets pretend for a moment they attacked my home. You know your home best. They generally try to do home raids at times when your asleep so you cant b3 waiting for them, and heres the MAIN reason why. Just about every rifle round that exists will wizz right through an entire house like a wet paper bag. So if you were prepared and waiting, the most effective method is knowing where they are and simply firing through the walls. I have survailance that is solar powered to a LAN network, so they cant just chop my power and barge in. I would know exactly where they were at all times. And just wait for them to attempt a breach. Very rarely do they do that window bullshit, that requires a helocopter and or easy QUIET roof access. Thats mainly hollywood nonsense. My house is hardened specifically against these types of techniques. Reinforced doors that REQUIRE a blast charge, shatter proof film on the windows, and "surprises" placed under the siding on the house near entry points, triggered remotelly. I have better gear now than I ever did in the military, so if they made a single oopsy poopsy and didnt manage to get a perfect surprise drop its all staged in the house to be equiped in a couple minutes. Full armor, gas mask, choice of NVG or Thermals, helmet, peltier muffs. Hell I could pop smoke in the basement and make it hell for them. Most swat teams dont carry thermal, only NVG. NVG doesnt work in smoke. Teargas, wont work. Flashbang. Wont work. When you have your gear on they can go off a foot from you and it does nothing. I could prattle all day, but moral of the story is these tactics rely MAINLY on stealth and speed. If they are faced with direct opposition, or worse..... someone who is literally WAITING for them, they get massacred. Read up on anti ambush tactics, how guys were trained in places like mountain areas in iraq, dealing with squads are similar to that. These things are very rock paper scissors when face to face, but its heavily dependent on situation. Who got the drop on who, and who reacts in the right way the fastest. And a bit of luck. All it takes is for the rookie of their squad to have a negligent discharge into your house and it just so happens to fly through the house and hit you in the eye in your well prepared defense possition by pure luck. When going up against someone who knows what your going to do next, you have to either be better than them, or switch it up. I know whos comming into the room, which way their rifles will be pointed, which way they walk and turn, which way the next guys looking, how many stay behind, why their out there, and most importantly what they do in response to a direct threat. What they do in response to an overwhelming threat. What they do in case of man down, or squad down etc etc. Think of it this way. Its like hunting, and im leading the target. An untrained person is trailing the target. A trained person is on target. A trained person who knows exactly what your about to do next is leading the target. Best methods. Entry points are "killzones" they will avoid being in them at all costs. Try to get in close, and always try to be at an angle so not the entire squad can engage you at once. Danger close causes confusion and hesitation, the equipment they have on doesnt make them invincible. Shotguns, or anything with a high rate of fire is best here. Remember their legs, crotch, feet and arms arent protected, nor is the face. Goggles and gas masks dont stop rounds. So dont be like the dumb bad guys hidden behind a couch well within the room. Pre emptive attacks are best, but if your on defense then getting as close as possible is best. Deny access to the room if possible and keep them bunched up. Most people dont have explosives but here is where they end the conflict effectivelly. Like i said we can speculate, but unless you gave me a scenario with exact perameters I cant tell you how every situation would go down or what best to do. Train. Run courses. Get familiar with CQC. Personally im the Jerry Miculek type, I can hit 6 tiny targets before most people even got the gun out of their holster. But heres probably the best advice of all. Just dont be the guy whos on their radar to raid and you will never have to test whos better.
One of the best GT videos yet. I love all the content, but these training videos have got to be some of the most valuable ones out there.
I love CQB videos, Mike Glover has one of my favorites on 1 man CQB(Because unfortunately you don’t have trained team members on your six 24/7)It’s great information for people who have not been formally trained by the government, but have the desire to learn and understand these techniques… Great video.
Mike and fieldcraft survival are definitely worth checking out... after this video, of course.
@@aaronlee2371 I took one of their classes, instructor didn't feel like coming so his assistant, some random Miami swat douche, filled in and it sucked ass. he ran out of ideas halfway through so he just had us mag-dumping for no reason in the middle of the ammo shortage of 2020. 10/10 would avoid giving him more money.
@@Eisernkreuz I've heard tons of stuff like this about their training. Subpar for the cost etc
You can't clear a building on your own.
@@TackJorrance no, you can’t. You can search a building alone, but can’t clear it.
I think I found my new place on TH-cam and my new favorite channel. 👍🏽 I love the adult humor on this channel and the fact they don’t stray away from cursing or saying whatever is on their minds. Keep it up because our citizens need this information brother 🤙🏽
That’s the best dad advice I’ve seen on this channel 😂
(This comment is not at all intended to criticize or belittle any other dad advice on this channel 😁)
Toss a frag before entering a building, learned that in the beginning of the GWOT. Also, if they play dead, shoot 'em in the face so you know they aren't suffering, and can't shoot. Much love ;-) Thanks for the videos, super informative.
So cool, and coming from actual Service men. As a firefighter I love to see the experienced teaching what they have learned to keep the new and inexperienced safe. keep up the good work.
Smashed the speck on the cameras tube thinking it was a bug as hard as the like button. Great video! Don’t stop making this series, you’re killing it.
This may be the coolest thing I've ever seen on TH-cam.
Been looking forward to this series returning. All the videos from rifle setup, to basic pack setup, now training/clearing. I like where it's going and I honestly don't think you can ever do too much in this series. It might be a bit odd and maybe you could find a better real world place, but there are a ton of paintball parks around with full on "cities" and stuff and it would be cool to see you do a scenario where you're a survivalist just trying to make it through or around the place, maybe trying to get into a store for some snacks and back out.
Awesome content! Now do a video for the express purpose of countering and disrupting those room clearing tactics. If you’re on the other side of the door from one of those teams what can you do to protect yourself from those tactics? A family member of mine in Guatemala stopped an entire team with caltrops, spike pits, wasps, and something to do with a volleyball net “impregnated” with large treble hooks. The team was not law enforcement fyi.
100%
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Grenades and Molotovs are the best way to counter a stack
Good comment. You might not be the one doing the clearing in an engagement...
@@nono-jj9rr They are very good for solving from the outside as well as the inside.
Interesting how something simple as clearing a room can have such science to do it correctly. Thanks for the content Garand Thumb
Wow, thanks to all as this is one of GTs best videos ever IMO. Room clearing techniques have changed dramatically since this old 11B received his first training at Fort Lewis in 1980-81.
Bravo!! Please keep these up, this is the kind of information that is going to save someone's life one day. Whether that is stacking up for the Super Mutant hideout, or avoiding that single man CQB
So far the best Dad advise put out by a Garand Thumb Guest. 💯
Agreed
Bro dont ever stop making videos!!! There awesome and ive learned alot as a new shooter!! Thank you for your service and teaching ppl how to protect themselves and others. Great job dont ever stop
I had a cqb instructor who used to say “sometimes you realize you got a shit sandwich, and the only thing you can do is just decide how big of a bite you’re gonna take out of it”. I think that’s good advice.
I would like to see a video on urban scavenging, like getting safe water, determining suitable shelter, things like that.
He covered a lot of that in the first urban survival video
Good idea mate, a lot of urban survival provides a lot of those things but shelter and storage should really be covered.
Played paintball for years, then airsoft , I know it's not the same but it does teach you basics of room and building clearing because after you have been shot with a paintball from only a couple feet away you learn pretty quick how to do things better, it can sting quite a bit and even hurt pretty good sometimes lol , I've talked about this with my buddies before we all came to the same consensus that if we could help it we would not want to be in that situation with real firearms if we can help it,
Its not the best but it is one of the only ways to practice the moving through a hostile building against other people especially if players take it seriously
Paintballs hurt especially frozen ones
Jared’s dad advice at the end was an amazing ending to a great learning video. Love the content GT.
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Loved this video! Keep ‘em coming. The dad advice rocked! It’s the one thing you need should room clearing goes wrong and you wake up in eternity 😊
Speaking as a member of a regional tac team for a statewide agency, I will say that unless you put in reps day after day, week after week, month after month, and think about these things even when you aren’t training…you’re gonna have a bad time. My current team have only been training together for a year and we are just now getting that N*Sync vibe. Stay righteous, safe, and dangerous folks.
Make sure you get the right address first
Good intel is paramount fo sho, whether you’re defending your own home, serving warrants, or taking assets in a post-apocalyptic urban environment.
@@GeauxRussGeaux Yeah, but you tier one dropouts who get to play Navy SEAL with your local SD/PD still can't figure that out
@@jasonm949 Show em how it's done bro.
@@ajr6288 Not my monkey, not my circus any more. Deal.
If you practice a lot you become pretty good at it. The footwork and everything so you feel confident. And then the instructors fire some shots in the building and immediately you get tunnel vision then you realise it is only the beginning of your training. Everyone in your videos are always very good at explaining how and why to do things. This is the best CQB video I have seen so far.
As a cop whose only CQB training was a couple of days in the academy where the instructors just kind of half-assed it and messed around, thank you. So far in sim training I’ve done since then it’s been enough but I still don’t have a lot of faith in myself
Same
When I was a firefighter, I agreed to be the “bad guy” in our PD’s “kill house” (a repossessed drug home). The level of training I’m seeing here and there is night and day. I once got domed while I had my hands up and I was on my knees. The trainer’s experience was being a paratrooper in Iraq. Nobody else on the SWAT team had any real combat experience and it showed.
What both of these really show me is how fucking dangerous a prepared firing position is when it comes to entering a room or building. When we were allowed to do whatever we wanted, outside of a script, it was always cake to defend the home if we knew and were allowed to react to the entry point.
@@PhilosoraptorXJ yeah our department’s SWAT team has nobody with combat experience except for one dude that did some a couple deployments as a Ranger and he hasn’t been through SWAT school yet so he’s not technically even on the team. And it’ll be years before they actually take the time to get him through. The joys of working for a suburban PD that would rather prioritize big ticket numbers than officer safety and appropriate training
Man thats every department. I feel ya
@@jwilliams3170 I would be interested to hear your stance on the oath to the Constitution.
Great advice. I clear my house like this everyday after coming home from work.
Did you check inside your walls?
@@slm8328 could be a classic cat in the wall situation. Slipped in at a seam
I trained a lot with 2nd recon in my time in the Marines. Some of that still sticks with me. One day when my wife and I got home from shopping we smelled cigarette smoke in the house and she got scared by the potential intruder. I cleared every room in the house like this. Anyways it was just a ghost
Super hyped for the continuation of this series
Wholesome, informative, necessary. 10/10
Dang...591,319 views and 41k likes on August 4, 2022 being having been a July 31, 2022 release. Respect. This is doctorate level CQB having been a Marine, SERT, and narcotics entry trained. Truly amazing to get this level of talent, methodology, and lesson plan in one video.
Very great video Mike, I think this video and Mike Glovers video of clearing rooms is great and teaches a lot of A. If you can, have multiple people with you and B. It’s not theatrics, everything done is entirely deliberate and meant to not expose yourself too early.
Jordan Peterson's law:
"Clean your room."
Garand Thumb's parable:
"Clear your room."
Both being based and nodpilled.
I cant thank you enough for these videos as somebody who lives in a country with 84 murders a day this type of info is priceless especially for firearm owners. Most people in my country get firearms and thats it they hardly train or even get information like this. Eternally grateful 🙏😎💪
Another takeaway from this:
Avoid situations where you have to defend a room. There are a lot of well trained people and there's a lot of good information out there for free.
I would rather defend a room than clear one
Be wary of surprise grenades.
@@Opsgermanysoldier yeah and this is a great video on room clearing but they did not go over booby traps or trip wires at all. and if you're assaulting someone who is a little more serious about their security then you should expect to encounter all manners of fuck your day up that you will never see coming. all in all assaulting a building is an ordeal of extreme risk and whatever you're going in there for better be damn worth it.
@@Opsgermanysoldier same, unless the enemy can use grenades or something
but maybe the same can be said in reverse with booby traps
@@shoyupacket5572 So....JDAM the building?
0:40 That video was of extreme importance to me.
My room was a bit dusty so i took my broom and went to sweep it and I guarantee I almost died at least 37 times. This video saved my life, thanks GarandMan!
Probably one of the best CQB vids I’ve ever seen. Awesome job by the instructors
Thanks!
@@oriontraininggroupllc2782 do you guys just strong wall every room? No points of domination? Also. Flying your gun on entry. What if someone is by the door? Are you going to shoot them bazooka style on entry? Or worse, have to throw them to the center of the room while holding your rifle like a bazooka?
@@Adventure-us this
Hello from Russia)).
I want to share two cases: the 1st case is when you go to the address and the body is sitting and waiting for you. Believe me, he will see you first and will pour you so much rice that you will stop loving sushi. the 2nd case is when they pour rice to you right away, and you haven't even entered the house yet and haven't said hello. All this looks beautiful, but in real life, there will be no such grace. There will be: tra ta ta ta ta. Good luck and love life. You r Awesome
Having cleared mom's basement multiple times, I've come to a startling conclusion:
Really need to clean. Also, CQB would most likely result in my totally timely death.
Stuff's scary. Nothing but respect for people who do that professionally.
This is a good scenario to practice with airsoft. Still allows you to get hit with familiar style weapons. Great video - thank you.
Airsoft teaches mistakes that non-force on force training cant teach.
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz okay let's practice room clearing with a live enemy combatant with live rounds. you must be a genius.
@@theastuteangler and you have the reading comprehension of a toddler.
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Garand Thumb literally recommended Airsoft for CQB training like a couple videos again
So tell me you don't listen to his content without telling me you don't listen to his content
@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz If you play Airsoft, sure, most fields have people running around like headless chickens. If you use airsoft guns to train with a group of people with the same goal in mind (recreating a real CQB scenario), it is a valid and - relatively - cheap solution to put training to test.
I love that they remind us this is about surviving every chance they get!
Remember don’t die this is about survival!
Great channel mate , very professional with humour, nailed it ! Keep up the good work, helping civilians with tactical knowledge. I love watching all your different episodes with different subject matter
Solid Dad advice. Thanks for the accountability.
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Great dad advice this episode, also very informative, I’m going to have to watch this one again a few times to get it all so much info
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1. Priorities of work: while entering a space.
Dead, Room, Living.....
2. Threat priorities:
Armed person, open door, unarmed person, closed door.
Good videos.
Crazy amount of information to work on, thanks for bringing these dudes on, they are based and help in explaining a very dangerous and complicated thing to do. One thing I am hoping you do for this urban survival series is to cover approach to a AO or building, we always talk about cqb but for one to even get to that appoint you have to get to the objective or building, what does it look like to make your approach on a building that is defended. As if things do get bad there's plenty of buildings that you may need to end up getting to.
I actually watched the video slowly multiple times and did this all in my own home multiple times and now i feel like the toss i take clearing out rooms is more in my favor. Thank you for this really well made and laugh full video. Everything said here felt like it was years of experience worth in just about half an hour.
No it takes a lot of practice. Combatants, booby traps, random shit falling, Incoming grenades, being not in the perfect mind set, the knowing your coming and being able to hide well. You possibly being out of shape (not a marathon runner). You gotta train for all these and then some. Even still you could just die.
@@zacharywilburn7253 Of course, all those things come to play i agree, thus i said the coin toss. You just never know what's on the other side of that door.
Very good and simple breakdown of the basics of CQB. I enjoyed that you included night vision and IR lasers as many people outside the military have probably not used them. CQB is definitely a terrifying thing that you must train thoroughly on but this video provides a good core base to work off of. Thank you and keep these urban survival videos coming! They are the best!