W. HOCK HOCHHEIM M A G A Z I N E

HANDSTICKKNIFEGUN

USA $6.95Canada $8.95

Plus…A Head Butting

ExperienceFight to the Death

Blind FaithDumping Mr. Wrong

The US Marine Corps

Black Belt Course

Blocking withImpact Weapons

Pirate Rules

BarSafePlus

The US Marine Corps

Black Belt Course

Blocking withImpact Weapons

Pirate Rules

BarSafePlus

Plus…A Head Butting

ExperienceFight to the Death

Blind FaithDumping Mr. Wrong

April / May 2001

ISSUE #6

0 774470 98545

04>

FeaturesBeyond The Mask of Killing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4By Publisher W. Hock Hochheim

Dispatches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5By Jane Eden and Staff

Impact Weapon Blocking . . . . . . . . . 7By W. Hock Hochheim

Pirates Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12BarSafe Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14By Mike Gillette

The 2001 U.S. Marine Black BeltCourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18By Jane Eden

The Squad RoomPolice Blotter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22True Cop Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Gotta Kill Me a Cop! By Connie Fletcher

Notes from the Citizens Self Defense League . . . . . . . . . . 27Ditching Mr. Wrong

Military BriefingScuttlebutt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Buffalo Nickels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Klingons, Ears and other Mysteries of the UniverseBattlefield Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Fighting Mad By Michael Calvert

World Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The ArenaStreet Fighter’s Training Notebook. . . . . . . . . 34The Survival Equation By Steve Krystek

Combat Calisthenics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Deep Squats By Trent Suzuki

BackCut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Close Quarter Combat Colonial StyleBy Dwight McLemore

More Low Rep Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38By Pavel Tsatsouline

True Paramedic Stories - Scoop & Run . . . . . 39“Butt - It’s your head!”By David “Smitty” Smith

The VanCook View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Blind FaithBy Jerry VanCook

The Bouncer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42How Much Force is too Much? By Damien Martin and Peter Rowe

PublisherW. Hock Hochheim

Editor-in-ChiefJane Eden

Contributing Editor(s)Lloyd & Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Graphic DesignLisa Blanks Ellis

PhotographyKeith Dempsey

SalesTammy Gillette

Contributing WritersMichael Calvert,

Connie Fletcher, Mike Gillette,Steve Krystek, Damien Martin,

Dwight McLemore, Buffalo Nickels,Pavel Tsatsouline,

Joseph Reyes, Jr., Peter Rowe,David “Smitty” Smith,

Trent Suzuki, Barry W. Szymanski,Jerry VanCook

Visit CQCMAG on the

World Wide Webwww.HocksCQC.com

E-mail us at LauricPres@aol.com

CQCMAG is published bimonthly by Lauric Enterprises, Inc. Back Issues $10.00in U.S.A. $20.00 overseas. Subscriptionrates per year are $30 U.S.; $50 Canada and$70 International. Manuscripts, illustrationsand/or photographs must be accompaniedby a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Thepublisher assumes no responsibility forunsolicited material. Copyright 2000 by Lauric Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.Reproduction in whole or in part withoutwritten permission is strictly prohibited.Printed in theUnitedStates.

LAURIC ENTERPRISES, Inc.P.O. Box 5372,

Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742Phone: (423) 400-9458

Fax: (706) 866-2657

April / May 2001 M A G A Z I N E

ABOUT THE COVERCaptain Maceo Franks locks up and chokes Cpl Daniel Finley. Caption Franks serves as commanding officer for Military Police Company, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Ca. He also serves as chief coordinator for the 1st

Marine Expeditionary Force’s Non-Lethal Weapons Course. His military certifications include defensive tactics instructor, non-lethal weapons instructor and primary marksmanship instructor. He is a graduate of the Army’sSpecial Reaction Team Course, the Marine Corps’ High Personnel Shooting Course, and the Georgia PSTI Executive Protection Course. With over 13 years of Martial Arts experience, he is a member of the Okinawa KonanryuKaratedo Kyokai and holds the rank of Shodan in Matsukazi-Ryu Jujutsu, 1st degree Black Belt in American Kenpo Karate. Additionally, he holds ranks in American Goju Ryu Karate, Hapkido and Judo. He is also a high-ranking

competitor in Sombo where he competed on the Quantico Judo/Sombo Team for three years. Capt Franks currently teaches Matsukazi-Ryu Jujutsu and Sombo aboard Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, Ca.

Rookies are always tugging on, re-adjusting and touching their guns.As a regular instructor in TexasPolice Academies, I would preachto the new recruits that eventually,

through their careers, carrying their gunswould feel like carrying their pens, in thatthey are tools and part of their uniform. Youneed a pen; you reach for it and pull it out.You need your gun. You reach for it and pullit out. This is a level of understanding andmaturity that comes with experience andenlightenment. It’s easy to preach. It’s easyto read here. It’s easy to nod your head inintellectual agreement. But it’s hard to passon to the soul. I have seen the noddingmasks of many a recruit, or martial stu-dents from similar lessons, but it is beyondtheir face and that mask that I really need-ed to reach, and touch maybe a bit south, totheir heart and soul.

I have been very close to death, seen it,smelled it, studied it, ducked it, andtouched it for three decades. I have pulledmy gun more times than I can remembersince 1974. I have never killed anyone. ButI have tried and missed. In my 23 years inlaw enforcement and three years in privateinvestigation in Oklahoma, South Koreaand Texas, I have been involved in severalgunfight exchanges and group shootings,disarmings, assorted vehicle and foot chas-es where rounds went off. Sometimes I

fired warning shots-whichare now so taboo—butthey so often worked.Quick draws saved my lifeand other’s lives by freez-ing the opponent. “Gettingthe drop” as we use to callit, has enforced the peace-

ful surrender of many. And in those years I have had situa-

tions where I could have legally killed peo-ple. Some of these were armed with knives,some with guns, even replicas. Somehow Isaw fit that I could handle the situation. Allthese are stories I hope to tell through theyears in this magazine and books, not justfor entertainment sake, but to pass on foreducation.

Often I would hear, “why didn’t yashoot em. Well, I’d just shoot him!” fromsomeone, usually a wanna-be tough-guyabout a threatening situation. It is verycommon for the ignorant and naïve to makesuch blurbs—even soldiers and cops. So illequipped are they to grasp the physical,mental and legal conundrums of such real-world action. But it sounds tough, doesn’tit.

Violence, you see, can be learned twomajor ways. One is from seeing and feelingviolence as a child. The other is to betrained for it. As our youth joins the armiesand police agencies of the world, as citizensarm themselves, as martial arts instructorsteach only the killer instinct, many havebeen weaned on action movies, books, vio-lent games, personal definitions of patriot-ism and justice. This can be a destructivecocktail. And secretly, in this confusingmix, some may wait anxiously for anyopportunity or any excuse to kill as if it

were a badge of courage, some ultimateexperience. Any excuse. Any reason. Iknow because I have wandered that darkroad myself. But it is wrong. Admit it. See it.Recognize it for wrong. Wrong. I, like somany, have been lucky.

I reached a point in my career and inmy adult life that when trying to shootthose that needed killing, coming so close,squeezing the trigger almost to that fatalexplosion, or actually cranking off roundsthat have missed, I knew that the actionwas justified, not just by some paranoidpolice policy or state law, but in my heart. Iknew that I would not suffer regret. Theaction was proper. The action was right. Onthe other hand, a mistaken killing would bean abusive violence that would haunt meterribly, forever. As well it should.

I am not a religious man. But I believein an organization and a karma to the uni-verse, and you MUST be on the good side. Ifyou do the right thing, you will know itbecause you will find solace and peace inthe action. This is what I hope and want foryou—the citizen in defense, the soldier andthe cop—this understanding, this maturity,this balance. You do what you have to dowith your hands, sticks, knives and guns,kill if need be, but for the right reasons. Dothe right thing.

On the do or die mask of the truly sea-soned veteran about to go into action, thisis the truth you will find beyond the mask,buried deep…and just a bit south. He’ll killya in a minute and won’t look back if it’sright. I can only hope that reading thisessay shortens the learning curve andkeeps you from wandering or staring at thatwrong, dark road. There is an awful lot atstake. ✪

BeyondThe Maskof KillingBy Publisher W. Hock Hochheim

4 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

LANDMAIL: I thought this magazine wasconservative and patriotic. Yet your recentglorification of the radical MarineSmedley Butler and his liberal ways con-fuses me and muddles your position. I amnot so sure I like it! —DM, Provo, Utah

REPLY: One thing you will never confuse isthis. I am in support of, in sympathy with,and in conspiracy with the soldier in thetrench, the sailor on the ship, the cop on thestreet, the citizen walking through life. Thatis where my loyalty lies, and these are theindividuals I wish to educate and arm. It isa tragedy when a soldier dies in combat. Itis an unfathomable tragedy when a soldierdies for a stupid cause, or mistake, or a liein combat. Smedley Butler has a messagefor us all, one well worth reviving fromtime-to-time and not just about business-men and politicians, but the upper brass.In the words of award winning, war histori-an Bruce Catton, “They were learning thereality of war, getting face-to-face with thesickening realization that men get killeduselessly because their generals are stupid,so that desperate encounters—where thelast drop of courage has been given— servethe country not at all and make a patriotlook like a fool.”

Civilizations, governments and mili-taries often rot from the top first on down,yet somehow we at the bottom are alwaysthe first to go face down. Hunt the truth. Bealways patriotic to the truth. When we fallfrom the truth, we lose it all. Now there’ssomething to muddle over.

LANDMAIL: Another three Marines aredead. This makes the death toll 30 fromaccidents involving the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. How many more Marineswill die before they pull the plug on thisaircraft? It has never worked since thefirst day it was tested. But with a poten-tial profit in the billions, the military war

machine contractors keep promising theycan fix the fatal errors. Their promiseswould seem funny except our young andbest are paying for those perspective prof-its with their lives. Remember also thesecrashes happened in ideal weather. But,unfortunately, wars are not fought inideal weather conditions. Sometimes itrains, it snows, the wind gusts, it freezes,there is fog. Sometimes the carrier deckpitches in high seas. Has anyone askedwhat will happen when Ospreys have tofly in the real world?In the meantime, our politicians look theother way because their states may sharein the profits earned from the airplane’sassembly. How many more will die beforesomebody stops this insanity? —AR,Atlantic Beach, FL

LANDMAIL: I read your headquartersmemo on simple, complicated and thor-ough systems. What do you think of grossmotor skills and the KISS (Keep it simplestupid) method? Isn’t simple better? —JO,West Virginia

REPLY: Remember when you study theKeep-It-Simple-Stupid Method…you’re stillstupid when you’re finished. The instructorstays stupid and gears the whole lessontoward stupidity. People are capable ofdoing all kinds of multi-task chores, likedriving cars and playing baseball and foot-ball that go well beyond gross motor skills.Yet when it comes to learning tactics manytrainers expect citizens, cops and soldiersto have all the developmental skills of aNeanderthal. They think if the tactic does-n’t resemble some gross, basic, motor skill,individuals won’t have the ability to learn it.The dumbing down of martial training dis-gusts me. It destroys our educational sys-tem. Don’t let me hear the excuse of “notime.” The challenge of professional train-ers is to identify better ways to teach in lim-

ited time and then campaign for more time.

Duck! Incoming! Shotgun Email

EMAIL: …really enjoyed your magazine,even though it seems to be more militarythan martial arts. That’s ok, but I wantyou to know. —LK, Scranton, PA

EMAIL: The real fighters today are in thearmed forces. Covering what they do andhow they think cuts to the quick. —AS,Corpus Christi, TX

EMAIL: …if you just remove all that mar-tial arts, karate junk, you would have abetter magazine. Too much Karate! Morereality . — JM, Santa Clara, CA

EMAIL: Too bad your magazine is toopolice oriented. It is interesting, but youneed to cut back on police science materi-als and add more martial arts. —GG,Columbus, Ohio

EMAIL: The answer to it all is BrazilianJiu-jitsu. —ME, El Paso, TX

EMAIL: The secret to close quarter battle isin the classics, hidden inside the Japaneseforms. Study the forms and learn. —LC,Omaha, NE

REPLY TO ALL: You know, sometimes it’shard to have a magazine on just plain, sim-ple fighting.

Dispatches

Send your email questions to

HockHoch@aol.com or land-mail to

Close Quarter Combat Mag, P.O.

Box 5372, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA 30742.

As Fox’s Bill O’Reilly would say,

“keep your comments pithy.”

April /May 2001 • 5

6 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

State of the Union“ T H E B U S I N E S S A N D N E W S O F S F C M E M B E R S H I P ”

By Jane Eden and Staff

THE CONGRESS KNIFECOURSE CHANGESHock created the knifecourse, once called theCongress of AmericanKnife Fighters, back inearly 1996. Then theCongress became internationaland he produced several othercourses, like the hand-to-handcourse. The old knife name no longerapplied. Thus, the name Knife/Counter-Knife Combatives title is now the officialcourse title, and we find it to be user-friendly to citizens, the military and thepolice. It also is a non-political name formartial artists to explore outside therealm of their sometimes, confining arts.Of course, individual school operatorsand teachers can still use whatevernames they chose for their classes andbusinesses as always. Along with thename change, through the last four yearsHock has improved several importantareas. Overall knife ranks have changedand are now much easier to identify.

The Journeyman Series Level 1Level 2Level 3 (upon completion-Journeyman Instructorship)

The Tradesman SeriesLevel 4Level 5Level 6 (upon completion-Tradesman Instructorship)

The Expert SeriesLevel 7Level 8Level 9 (upon completion-Expert Instructorship)

Master Level 10(upon completion-master instructorship)

If you have taken the extensive old Level6 Expert test already—Congratulations!You have taken your level 10 Knife

Masters test already! Now all you haveto do is cover the ranks through level 9and you will automatically be awarded.Also some of the material has beenmoved and revised for a better evolu-tion. “I first organized this progression

in 1996. Not only have I learnedmuch more since then, but I

have learned to becomea better teacher,organizer and have

better learned the needsand questions of students. This has

caused me to re-write and re-priorit ize material ,” Hock

explains.

All new knife manuals now reflectthese revisions. You have until June,2002, or some 15 months to comply withthese few changes. In the meantime, theold format and manual can also be used.Your current knife rank is transferableand will always remain the same. Alsoremember, each level requirement has alisting that says, “area instructor require-ments” that is where you, the regionalinstructor, can add what you wish atopthe listed requirements. You can stillteach the same way now. Just rememberthe combat skeleton.

****

Joe “The Bouncer” Reyesis hard at work constructing“Igodojo.com” Check it out.

****

Phony SEALS, POWs andHeroes Beware!New SFC members nowinclude the Prisoner of WarNETWORK, a group of con-cerned professionals, retiredmilitary whom exposephonies claiming to be bothPOWs and military vets likeS E A L S , G r e e n B e r e t s ,Gurkhas , Rangers, heroes,etc. Any questionable peopleyou want to check on? Simply

contact the Network atwww.Pownetwork.com. We will soon doa feature story on the POWNETWORKin an upcoming issue. Hock has beeninvited into the dedicated group and isalready involved in investigating someof the cases.

Attention: New England Region,USAWe are proud to announce that RaffiDerdarian, owner of Modern FightingSystems, 1010 Plainfield, Johnston,Rhode Island (very near Providence),long time colleague/student/friend ofHock’s will be open for instruction in theSFC courses along with his regularcourses. If you are in New England andseek SFC training and certification, con-tact the “Raffinator” at 401-946-0384 oremail Xraff@aol.com

By W. Hock Hochheim

An impact weapon has an aggressive name, butin theory half of its mission is defensive—toblock or deflect incoming attacks. No matterwhat your tool, martial art stick, umbrella, walk-ing cane, expandable baton, riot stick, rifle or

shotgun, you may use all to intercept, counter-attack andattack with one-hand or two-handed grips. The followingpictorial shows blocks broken down into quadrants ofnorth, south, east or west, or the unforgettable learningaid of using the clock points by way of 12, 3, 6 and 9o’clock positions (as referenced by the stick holder.) Usewhatever best suits your memory, or that of your students’.It is important to burn these movements into your musclememory by executing 3,000 to 5,000 repetitions. This photoseries shot on the rugged Pacific Coastline of New Zealand, dis-plays the basic long weapon blocks from the differing clock posi-tions, plus a few other miscellaneous positions.

Unsupported BlocksThese are the weakest of all blocks, unfortunately the one

practiced the most by martial artists, police and the military.These are for times of close quarter combat when you detect anincoming strike is not powerful enough to need full support. Thisblock will not stop the madman’s killer head bash because bothhis and your sticks will collapse on you. In unsupported block-ing, hammer a nail with the bottom of the handle or pommel ofyour stick. This hammering movement will place more blockinginertia into the shaft and offer a little more protection.

ImpactWeaponBlocking

April /May 2001 • 7

s Unsupported Blocks

s Supported Blocks. The support hand is low on the stick.

s Supported Blocks. The support hand is high on the stick.

s DMS Blocks or Two-Handed Blocks These may be executed with a rifle grip, which is one palm up, one palm down, or the stick grip both palms facing the same direction. Besure to leave space between the hands to ensure as much blocking surface as possible.

4

3 4

3

3 4

8 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

1 2

1 2

1 2

3

4

1 2

Impact Weapon

Blocking Consists of:

• Unsupported blocks

• Supported blocks

• DMS or two-handedgrip blocks

• Hybrid blocks

• All strikes mayserve as blocks too

1 2

3 4

s Here you see a problem-solving shield block.

s Batting Blocks

s This demonstrates a problem solving back block.

s All strikes may serve as blocks too.

April /May 2001 • 9

10 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

sThese blocks must be practiced while kneeling and flat on the ground. q

sThe flat hand support. Off a few degrees? This spells trouble. You may smash your hands and fin-gers, and your stick may slip off your hand into you! This constitutes a common martial artsy stickmistake.

Beware! The Flat Hand SupportSome practitioners use a flat open hand to support blocks. This

requires superior, exact position to save your fingers. The attacking strokemust stand a perfect 90 degrees into your block, or you will mash your hand,and/or your stick might glance off you flat hand and hit you. The hand orhands holding your impact weapon are always at risk. Try to maximize your safety with the best hand position.

Whether you are a police officer, security, a soldier, a martial artist, a business person, a hiker, a jogger, a walker, whatever and haveaccess to a long tool, practice these universal command and mastery blocking movements.

sCupped hand support. This provides little chance for a glancing blow. Lesschance for a broken hand.

sMany of these blocks may apply to the long guns of security,police, military and defending citizens.

Hybrid BlocksAre those unusual blocks

that problem-solve unusualattacks or help you find quickshelter from a previously diffi-cult position.

Beware! The SlashingBlock

If you always train with apartner who never really tar-gets your head, but rathermindlessly targets your stick,or one who never extends hiswrist upon delivery, the personon the receiving end may getaway with murder! Martialartists who live too long in thisunreal world may over-confi-dently slash back at an incom-ing attack, never really stop-ping true incoming energy. Since the trainer never penetrates any deeper anyway, itseems your pretty slashing block worked! Do that a few thousand times, and youhave terrible muscle memory against a real head basher. ✪

1 2

sThe umbrella appears less suspicious and more practical in dif-fering climates! You may use a sturdy custom-built umbrella as ablocking device in the same maneuvers. A young healthy man orwoman carrying a walking stick in an ordinary town likeChattanooga, TN, USA may seem suspicious or pretentious.However an older man or woman might carry a stick with somesuccess. These blocking strategies apply to such circumstancesregarding the cane.

rWhen you hike in places like the mountains of Georgia, USA,you may use a common walkingstick or cane to block attacks.

April /May 2001 • 11

Ever wonder how the predators of theseas, pirates, managed to stay on thoseships for so long and not just kill each otheroff? Pirate ships were often run more diplo-matically than strict military ships.Researchers have amassed a set of general“pirate’s rules,” obeyed and understood bymost.

• Every man shall obey Civil Command.The captain shall have one full shareand a half of all Prizes. (Usually thiswas actually a double share.)

• If any man shall offer to run away, orkeep any secret from the Company, heshall be maroon’d with one Bottle ofPowder, one Bottle of Water, one smallArm and shot.

• If any man shall steal any Thing in theCompany, or gain, to the value of aPiece of Eight, he shall be maroonedor shot.

• That man who shall strike anotherwhilst these Articles are in force shallreceive Moses Law (that is 40 stripeslacking 1 on the bare Back).

• That Man that shall snaph i s A r m s o r s m o a kTobacco in the Hold with-out a Cap to his pipe, orcarry a Candle lightedwithout a Lanthorn, shallsuffer the same Punishmentas in the former article.

• That Man that shall notkeep his Arms clean, fitfor an Engagement, orneglect his Business, shallbe cut off from his Shareand suffer such otherPunishment as the Captainand the Company shallthink fit.

• If any man shall lose a Jointin time of an Engagementhe shall have 400 Piecesof Eight; if a limb, 800.

• If at any time you meet with a prudentWoman that Man that offers to meddlewith her without her consent shall suf-fer present death.

With such rules the pirates went out tosearch for ships and treasure.

(Excerpt from Jolly Roger with an UZI by Jack A.Gottschalk and Brian P. Flanagan, published byNaval Institute Press (800) 233-8764. Reprintedwith permission.)

Pirates Rules

12 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

April /May 2001 • 13

Close Quarter Combat MagazineSubscribe to:Close Quarter Combat Magazinenow and receive your membership in the Scientific Fighting Congress for one year FREE! (Certificate available upon request)

Name _________________________________________________

Profession ______________________________________________

Address _______________________________________________ City_______________________________ State_____ ZIP__________

Phone No._____________________ MC/Visa/Discover/AmExpress No.__________________________________ Expiration Date_____/_____

Make checks payable to Lauric Enterprises, Inc., and mail subscription information to: Lauric Enterprises, Inc., P.O. Box5372, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA 30742 • phone (423) 400-9458 • fax (706) 866-2657 • e-mail LauricPres@aol.com

1 YEAR❏ USA $30❏ Canada $50❏ International $70

During my years as a law enforce-ment use-of-force officer, one par-ticular phenomena has drawn myattention repeatedly. It’s happenedso frequently, that I’ve given it a

name. I call it Incident-Driven Training.Incident-Driven Training often results

because a situation has ended badly eitherbecause it arrived unexpectedly or the offi-cer was not adequately prepared. The mag-nitude and ferocity of the riots that tookplace in Seattle during the World Trade

Organization conference took Seattlepolice by surprise. That event led to anintense examination of how the agencywould handle such incidents in the future.Subsequent training exercises took intoaccount the problems caused by a well pre-pared, trained and equipped group of agita-tors. This year when demonstrations werestaged to celebrate the one-year anniver-sary of the WTO, the Seattle PD providedan effective and efficient response.

Incident-Driven Training may occur in

a variety of contexts. Fire departments,hospitals and airports have all had toupgrade training and procedures inresponse to such events. There is also afinancial imperative to enhance readiness,as fines administered under the authority ofthe Occupational Safety and Health Actbecome increasingly common. Other finan-cial incentives can take the form of negli-gence lawsuits or higher insurance premi-ums. Increased incidents of workplace vio-lence have brought the same types ofscrutiny and sanctions to the private sector.

Unfortunately it seems that it nearlyalways takes a negative event to bringabout Incident-Driven Training.

One such event that brought muchneeded focus on a significant void in train-ing occurred on February 17, 2000. The set-ting was Des Moines, Iowa. The city itselfis widely recognized for being unremark-able. Many companies test-market newproducts in Des Moines because demo-graphic studies suggest it is the most typi-cal city in the United States.

The incident began in a nightclub oneevening in this typical city. There clubbouncers asked a certain young man toleave the premises because he violated theestablishment’s dress code. The man leftthe club but returned a short time later.What happened next is now the subject of acriminal trial and will be revisited in a civiltrial during 2001. When the man returned,there was an altercation in the club thatinvolved him and two bouncers. The bounc-ers eventually restrained the man on thefloor. A short time later, he died. His namewas Charles Lovelady, Jr.

Five days after Lovelady’s death, Ifound myself on the phone with PrestonDaniels, the Mayor of Des Moines. Danielshad an idea he hoped would prevent anoth-er incident like this one. He wanted todevelop a training program specifically fornightclub bouncers. Lovelady died tragical-ly, but there was another factor that keptthe event in the headlines. The two bounc-ers involved in the altercation were whitewhile Lovelady was an African-American.

During our phone conversation,Daniels asked me what I thought bouncers

BarSafe PlusBy Mike Gillette

“You’ve had too much to drink,” and “you must leavethe premises” are all in a night’s work for a bouncer.

14 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

should know to avoid an incident like thisone. I said the single most important taskfor anyone who deals with the public iseffective communications skills. This iseven more critical for bouncers who oftenhave to tell individuals what they do notwant to hear. “You’ve had too much todrink,” and “you must leave the premises”are all in a night’s work for a bouncer.These are the routine situations that, if mis-handled, can end badly for all concerned.

Prior to learning physical skills, anypublic-contact employee needs training tolearn how to deal with people in a way thatdecreases the likelihood of violence. Manypeople seem surprised when they hear mesay this. With my military, martial arts andlaw enforcement background, they mightassume that all I do is teach how to hurtpeople. As I explained to the mayor, “theonly fight you can win is the one you pre-vent.” Before we finished our conversa-tion, the mayor asked me to appear at a

press conference where he would detail hisplan to the public.

One month later the details for thetraining program were finalized. Bearingthe name “BarSafe Plus,” it is composed offour separate parts. In the program theseparts are called phases and are structuredas a three-phase response model. In theorder presented these phases are:

• Verbal Intervention • Physical Intervention, and

Self-Defense There is also a “pre-phase” component

to the course. Included in this segment arefoundation topics such as legal guidelinesfor the use of force, civil rights, responsiblealcohol service, altered ID’s and how to pre-pare an incident report.

While developing the course, I knewthe biggest limitation would be time. If thisprogram eventually became mandatorythroughout the state, the length of the classwould become an issue. In resolving this, I

s Position refers to where you place yourself in relation to another person.

s As the name would suggest, an attachment is the“where” you hold onto someone.

1

2

April /May 2001 • 15

16 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

worked with members of an organizationwho specialized in presenting training pro-grams for restaurants and nightclubs. TheIowa Hospitality Association partneredwith me in the development of the courseand provided such resources as coursehandbooks and scheduling assistance.Based on their feedback, the program wasconstructed around a four-hour time frame.

In an effort to maximize the informa-tion presented in the shortest amount oftime, I built the hands-on material aroundprinciples whenever possible. By teachingphysical principles instead of just individ-

ual techniques, learning time decreased.We combined this concept with the idea ofdeveloping a goal-oriented mind set. This isin contrast to the more common task-ori-ented teaching of physical skills. Policetrainer and martial artist Phil Messina firstchampioned this idea.

If we use the example of a bouncermaking contact with a nightclub patron,task thinking leads the bouncer to focussolely on the mechanics of a specific tech-nique. If the technique is notworking correctly, task thinkingstays focused on trying to make itwork. This creates tunnel vision,which, in this example could bedangerous. A goal orientationallows the bouncer to focus on hisoverall objective, the safe physicalcontrol of the patron.

During times of stress thebrain has difficulty processinginformation. Goal-oriented think-ing helps reduce clutter in themind. It becomes easier for thegoal-oriented person to achieve hisor her objective by thinking fur-ther ahead.

To illustrate how we presentthe physical principles, we take alook at how an escort techniquemay be broken down into separatecomponents.

The first component, which isalso the most essential quality ofany technique, is BALANCE.Balance is taught in terms of howto maintain your own and how tomanipulate the balance of others.Students learn how to assume astable position and to use thatposition as their primary posturewhen dealing with other people.They then develop the ability tosense when their own balancebecomes compromised.

POSITION refers to whereyou place yourself in relation toanother person. Factors such asdistance, direction and posture allrelate to this component. Studentslearn the safest way to achieve afavorable position in order to per-form the various escort methods.The relationship of distance andtime is also taught so students canbetter determine the threat poten-

tial of a subject.

An ATTACHMENT is the physicalcontact made with a person. As the namewould suggest, an attachment is the“where” you hold onto someone. This isthe critical stage of any contact and the onewhere most assaults occur. By watchingfor sudden movement and shifts in balance,students may learn to sense the intention ofa patron after an attachment is made.

s Double Escort

s Direction of force, depending on the type of technique,may be applied upward, downward, forward, rearwardor in a spiral.

1

2

1

2

Establishing LEVERAGE is the nextstep in the process and may be categorizedas either structural or postural. Structuralleverage occurs by manipulating a part ofthe body so the skeletal system becomestemporarily immobilized. Postural lever-age is based on the positional relationshipor placement of one body to another. Bothtypes of leverage are intended to reduce theneed for struggling with another person.The idea is to work smarter not harder.

The last component is DIRECTIONOF FORCE. Depending on the type oftechnique, force may be applied upward,downward, forward, rearward or in a spiral.When escorting a person, force is usuallydirected forward. The idea is to make iteasy for a person to move in the directionthat you want them to go. The methods

taught in the BarSafePlus program may beused to not onlytomove a person, butalso to direct that person to the ground ifthey try to assault the employee.

At the beginning of the programemployees learn that the goal of BarSafePlus is to resolve problems at the very firstphase, Verbal Intervention. Because this isnot always possible, they also receive asolid foundation of physical skills andstrategies. Other topics such as first-aid,crime scene preservation and advancedtactics are taught by request. Due to thetypes of circumstances that bouncers rou-tinely face, most people are surprised thatthis type of training has not been widelyavailable before now. That is the nature ofIncident-Driven Training. The necessity of

it only becomes obvious after the incidenthas occurred. ✪

Mike Gillette is Chief of Police for a city in Iowa.His experience spans more than 10 years in lawenforcement with an extensive military operationsbackground. Gillette worked various assignmentsas a Tactical Team Commander, Rangemaster,Patrol Supervisor and Field Training Officer. As aUse-of-Force Trainer, he taughtofficers and agents across thecountry. In the military heserved in the 82nd Airborneand the 194th Long RangeSurveillance Det. (Airborne).(515) 795-2149.

s Escourt turns to violence!

1 2

4

5

6

3

April /May 2001 • 17

18 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

When US Marine CommandantGeneral James L. Jones servedduring the Vietnam War he tooknotice that his Marines appearedto be intimidated by their allies,

the Republic of South Korea Marines,called informally by many as “Rock” (ROK)Marines. When questioned, the Americanssaid their Korean counterparts were allblack belts in Tae Kwon Do and werefeared by the NVA and Vietcong as ruthlesswarriors. General Jones recalls that “theROK was described as Attila the Hun. Ithought that even if it’s not true, what agood thing it is to be able to intimidate peo-ple that way.”

Once promoted to Marine CorpsCommandant, Gen. Jones began his list ofimprovements, and he ordered a seriousmartial arts initiative—“giving every gruntan opportunity to earn the equivalent of ablack belt.” He designed the course toteach their established military tactics,already a conglomeration of more than adozen systems, and augments materialfrom certain outside instructors with theproper experience, mindset and teachingabilities.

LINE–the Linear In-fighting NeuralOverride Engagement program is out! Ithas been out for four years now despitecivilian publishing houses, videos and mar-tial arts magazines misconceptions. In itsplace, the Marines adopted an extensiveand competent manual on the subject withno real flamboyant course title or acronym.With the new push from Gen. Jones, thismaterial evolved into the “Black Belt” pilotprogram, which kicked off 1 May 2000 with

The 2001U.S. Marine

Black BeltCourse

By Jane Eden

Non-lethal Weapons School Officer in ChargeCapt. Maceo Franks squeezes the consciousness

out of Cpl. Finley with a choke, supported by asleeve grab. Chokes and counters to chokes

are an important part of the course.

April /May 2001 • 19

Marines from the3rd Battalion, 4th Marine

Regiment at Twenty-NinePalms, Ca. From there, they reviewed andenhanced the system even more.

The US Marines define close quartercombat as the physical confrontationbetween two or more opponents, involvinglethal and non-lethal, unarmed and armedfighting techniques that range fromenforced compliance to deadly force. Withthis definition and these directives issued, adriving force and hands-on organizer of thisnew Black Belt course is Master GunnerySergeant Cardo Urso, the head of the CloseCombat School in Quantico. The quintes-sential Marine, Urso has vast experienceand multiple black belts in the combat arts.Urso works in the trenches running his out-fit, teaching and traveling. Master GunnyUrso and staff are creating the instructorswho spread the operation across the Corps,first solidified in the infantry, then to everyoccupational specialty.

“The new system went into full swing,the result of three years of hard work bymore than a dozen subject matter experts,”reports Urso. His outstanding work on the

material has notonly made for amore hard-core

approach, but alsoimproved safety by way of smarter train-ing methods. The levels are designated byt-shirt colors and the following are theactual physical and training time require-ments.

The Tan ShirtTo attend this training, the Marine

must complete basic training. • Fundamentals of fighting -1 hour• Punches -1.5 hours• Falls 2 -hours• Bayonet techniques -2 hours• Pugil sticks -6 hours• Upper body strikes -2 hours• Lower body strikes -2 hours • Throws -1.5 hours• Counters to strikes -1.5 hours• Counters to chokes and holds -1.5

hours• Unarmed restraints -1.5 hours• Armed manipulations -1 hour• Knife techniques -1 hour

• Introduction to weapons of opportu-nity -1 hour

• Total of 26 physical hours, plusclasses on structure and history ofthe martial arts program

• Responsible use of force• Warrior case studies • Reinforce core values and combat

leadership

The Gray ShirtTo attend this training, the Marine

must receive the recommendation ofreporting senior. Marine must complete theFundamentals of Marine Corps Leadershipcourse.

• Introduction to bayonet trainer -3hours

• Upper body strikes -2 hours• Lower body strikes -1.5 hours• Execute front choke -1 hour• Hip throw -1 hour• Counters to strikes -1 hour• Counters to chokes and holds

-2 hours• Unarmed restraints -1.5 hours• Armed manipulations -1 hour• Knife techniques -1.5 hours• Weapons of opportunity -1 hour• Ground fighting -1.5 hours• Repeat practice -8 hours• Skill sustainment and overall review

-14 hours

• Total of 40 physical hours plus• Martial culture study of the Raiders• Nutrition and lifestyle• Informal resolution system• Warrior case studies• Foundations of leadership• Professionalism

The Green ShirtTo attend this training, the Marine

must receive a recommendation from areporting senior.

• Must rank as a corporal or above.• Must have appropriate PME level

completed.• Blunt bayonet trainer –3 hours• Muscular gouging -0.5 hours• Side choke -1 hour• Shoulder throw -1 hour• Counters to strikes -1 hour• Unarmed restraints -1.5 hours

SSGT Sal Castilleja of theMEF Non-Lethal Weapons Course

at Pendleton plies a regulation arm bar on Cpl. Daniel Finley. q

The new system went into full swing, the result of three years of hard work by

more than a dozen subject matter experts.

20 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

• Weapons of opportunity -1 hour• Ground fighting -1.5 hours• Free sparring -2.5 hours• Repeat Green practice -14 hours• Skill sustainment and overall review 23 hours

• Total of 50 physical hours plus• Killology instructor course• Human dimensions instructor course• Components of cohesion course• Sustaining the transformation course• Martial culture study of the Spartans• Leadership roles training• Combat leadership training• Ethics and standards of conduct training

Brown Shirt LevelTo attend this training, the Marine must receive

a recommendation from a reporting senior. Mustrank corporal or above. Must have appropriate PMElevel completed.

• Bayonet trainer (multiple attackers) 2.5 hours• Ground fighting -2 hours• Ground chokes -1.5 hours• Unarmed vs. hand-held weapons -1.5 hours• Firearm retention -1 hour• Firearm disarmament -1 hour• Non-lethal baton -1.5 hours• Weapons of opportunity -1 hour• Free sparring -2 hours• Repeat Brown practice -19 hours• Skill sustainment and overall review 27 hours

• Total of 60 hours of physical hours plus• Anatomy and physiological effects• Killology advanced• Human dimensions advanced• First aid and medical response• USMC counseling• Developing subordinates• Martial culture study Apache• Mentoring program participation• Warrior as a gentleman training

Black Level ShirtTo attend this training the Marine must have

recommendation from a reporting senior, mustbe SGT of above, must have an appropriate PMElevel.

• Bayonet techniques -3 hours• Seeping hip throw -1 hour• Face rip -1 hour• Neck manipulation takedowns -0.5 hours• Triangle choke -1 hour• Rolling knee bar -1 hour• Straight-arm bar -1 hour• Bent arm bar -0.5 hours• Counter pistol top the head -0.5 hours• Striking techniques -1 hour• Knife vs. hand-held weapons -1 hour• Anatomy -2 hours• Free sparring -2 hours• Black material practice -25 hours

• Skill sustainment and overall review -30 hours

• Total of 70 physical hours plus• Anatomy advanced• Leadership training techniques• Martial culture study Zulu• Mentoring program participation• Core values training

Marine officers worry that their men andwomen might not have, or find the time away fromtheir regular duties for all these training courses.Then they worry about quality control. “Will theinstructors across the world understand and teachcorrectly?” Such is always the problem in large insti-tutionalized training programs. Other leadersexpress the common sense concerns of Marines get-ting rowdy at bars off hours and getting into fights.No matter what the military training, this is always aconcern solved by discipline and integrity. Thecourse generates great self-esteem, enthusiasm,morale and interest. Vocal members of the US Armyare jealous over the progress, “at least the Marinesare trying!” one G.I. says, comparing their lack ofsuch an initiative.

Civilian martial artists running schools in theUnited States wondered what will happen when aglut of these black belted Marines end their tour ofservice in the future and attempt to open schools intheir marketplaces.

These are not the overall concerns of GeneralJones who says, “Putting it in warrior like terms, Ihave no problem with Marine Expeditionary Units ordeployed battalions landing on some foreign shores,and I would like whoever it is that wishes us harm tothink every one of those Marines coming their way isa black belt.” ✪

s The one and only master Gunnery Sgt. Cardo Urso. (Right)

CLOSE QUARTER COMBAT MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB

Good to Go$5.95 plus $3 postage

W. Hock Hochheim’sKnife Fighting EncyclopediaThe Foundation$39.95 plus $6 postage

WE CAREFULLY SELECT THESE BOOKS WITH OUR READER’S SATISFACTION IN MIND.

Issue Six SPECIAL!

W. Hock Hochheim’sMilitary Knife Combat

$25 plus $6 postage

To order, send a check, money order or credit card information to Lauric Enterprises, Inc., P.O. Box5372, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA 30742. Call (706) 866-2656or visit our shopsite at www.HocksCQC.com

April /May 2001 • 21

22 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

Ambush/Assassination in GeorgiaAssassination is an appropriate label

for what happened,” says Mildred Jones,

a spokesperson for the Dekalb County Public Safety Department—the seco

nd

largest county in the state. Forty-six-year-old Derwin Brown, the new sher

iff-

elect and a 22-year police veteran of that County, was gunned down the ni

ght

of Friday December 15 in front of his home. Brown was shot multiple times

by

a large-caliber weapon. The prime suspects? Not some ex-con Brown caug

ht.

Brown was expected to turn the agency upside down, fire 10 employees and

rid

the agency of alleged corruption.

Police DutiesIn the United States, many police agen

cies are busy

organizing Easter egg hunts, block parties, cook

books and other community service, all officer

friendly chores better suited for unarmed,

untrained city and county personnel, not first

response emergency personnel like armed police

officers. But in many nations, like South Africa, the

Middle East and Europe, the standard issue is not

the pistol but the machine gun! In some of the

countries, after the daily squad meetings and brief-

ings, the officers must breakout from their police

buildings at a dead run, fanning across the area,

fearing as they sniper fire and ambush as they exit

the doors.

Kumbaya my DEA, KumbayaDEA vets are wondering about new

business cards

being printed and distributed. The cards read

“Intelligence Up Front” on one side. Then on the back

“Three Essential Thoughts.”

1) You are important.

2) What we are doing matters and makes a dif-

ference. 3) Together we can do the EXTRAOR

DINARY.

So far agents are described as somewhat shocked.

Says one narc, “You gotta be kidding.”

Police Blotter

The Squad Room, a place for briefings, training, coffee, war

stories, station-house gossip, and ass-chewings…

Serbian police patrol in Bujanovac after armed clashes.

A Palestinian policeman crawls for cover after a clash

with Israeli soldiers in Khan Younis.

Corruption WaiverL.A. Police Chief Bernard Park’s thinks he has a tool disclosure to fight police corruption. He andothers wish to have officers sign a narrowly tailored financial closure requirement that wouldallow the PD to investigate an officer’s private finances. Police unions argue this is an unfairintrusion. Rebounding off of the recent LAPD corruption charges (many of which have becomedifficult for prosecutors to prove in trials) very high officials inside Los Angeles tell CQCMAGhonest officers resent the intense scrutiny. They fear any aspect of doing their job beyond reporttaking will open them up to all kinds of civil rights violations, use of force investigations andsuch. The L.A. official reports, “this has caused kind of a slow-down. It hurts the citizens.”

Mothers in JailThe female population in US prisons has risen 650 percent in the past two decades. Of the morethan 149,000 women inmates, 70 percent have at least one child less than 18 years of age.

From Hollow Point to Hollow Threat 40 WeaponsThe St. Tammany Parish S.O. of Louisiana, USA introduced its new line of non-lethal weapons,one agency in a national movement to increase such technology. SWAT’s new pepper ball rifleshoots spray pellets upon contact. Stun guns were also purchased. Opponents argue that whenthe criminal only risks a shocking bruise from an officer’s rubber gun instead of death and/ordismemberment, offender resistance may increase. They use the rubber bullet versus rock anal-ogy of the Middle East conflict. Everyone knows that if the rock throwers knew they would behit by real bullets they would cease and desist. Meanwhile rubber bullets to the head do causedeath in the Middle East. The body count continues.

Texas Manhunt“You haven’t heard the last of us yet,” a note left atthe scene of a December prison break read.Statewide Texas police wore bulletproof vests andincreased their firepower for the biggest manhunt inthe state’s history. Seven escaped convicts amassedan arsenal of weapons stolen during their prisonbreak and during a robbery of a sporting goods storein Irving, Texas that resulted in the shooting death ofan Irving officer on Christmas Eve. Six of the sevenconvicts were captured six weeks later living at a

campground in Colorado. The seventh committed suicide to avoid capture. Prison officialsclaim guards failed to follow procedures, which lead to the break out. Some guards tellCQCMag low pay and poor working conditions make them hesitant to risk their lives to preventa break out. Currently top pay for Texas prison guards runs about $28K per year.

Casino RobberiesAs the movie industry remakes “Oceans Eleven” with George Clooney–the old Rat Pack caperinvolving heists at Vegas casinos–despite the heavy proliferation of armed guards and high-techsecurity systems, casino robberies continue to plague Las Vegas. LVPD LT. John Alamshaw saysit takes a combination of violence and arrogance to pull them off. Usually two robbers confronta cashier, leap over the counter and often attack the clerk. They steal the money and disappearinto the crowd. It takes only a minute. Last November at Treasure Island, a robber shot at andmissed two security guards. New customer friendly counters without cages create this opportu-

April /May 2001 • 23

24 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

nity. There are no plans to cage in the cashiers at this time

. Now that casinos are corporation

owned businesses, and not Mafia controlled, the fear of mob

retribution has declined.

More Attacks on Cops and Police Stations in South Africa

Two armed bandits held up the Groblershoop police station

in the Northern Cape region and

escaped with 370,000 of their dollars, called “rand.” The crim

inals locked up officers in a strong

room and fled the scene.

National Cop MuseumThe US House of Representativ

es has passed Bill 5.1438, which will establish a 50,000 square

foot

national Enforcement Museum in Washington DC. For a

dditional information visit: www.

Nleomf.com

No Two Trees are Alike!The Royal Canadian Mounted P

olice have developed DNA identification systems that allow th

em

to trace stolen trees back to their stumps. Stolen trees accou

nt for a loss of 20 million dollars a

year in Canada.

Father Thwarted in Abusive Traditional Practice

Earlier this year, a court in Kenya Africa ruled, for the first t

ime, that a father should not force

his daughters to undergo female genital mutilation.

Colombia Mayor KilledTwo men on a motorcycle —a

very common assassination team tactic in Colombia—condu

cted

a drive-by murder of Putumayo mayor Carlos Julio Rosas in

December 2000. The motive was to

terrorize and take revenge on politicians who support the US

backed drug crop eradication pro-

gram. In November the mayor of Sibundoy escaped a bomb

explosion that killed several police

officers and nearby civilians.

Errant Nuke MailingsThe US Energy Department,

already scarred with security problems now

acknowledges that 15 percent of classified documents m

ailed from three

nuclear weapons labs last year went to addresses not approv

ed to receive such

material such as unapproved civilian contractors.

Suicide, Korea and the Internet

Two people in Seoul, South Korea were arrested for a cont

ract murder and a

suicide pact arranged over the Internet. Authorities arrested

a 26-year-old man

last December for failing to prevent the suicides of two peop

le he met through

a suicide web site. There are two-dozen suicide sites in K

orea. Some offer

advice and support to prevent suicides, but others seem to a

dvocate and offer

tips on methods. About one-third of South Korea’s 47 milli

on people use the

Internet.

April /May 2001 • 25

Haiti becoming a “Narc State”In the past few years, cocaine transport from Colombia through Haiti has increased from 5 per-cent to 15 percent amounting to about six tons a month.

International Crime ReportWhat happens when you are stabbed in another country? New Zealander Wade Sim, age 31,

thought he had only been punched while hanging out in a bar in Thailand, until he saw his intes-tines hanging out.

Sim and his vacation partner Rachel Black went to a safe-looking Chiang Mai bar in the earlya.m. hours of 10 November. As he waited for his drink, he said a friendly “gidday mate” to anAmerican, an Anglo face in a foreign land. A close look at the mate revealed that he looked likeone of those society drop-out types. He acknowledged but seemed to look right through Sim. As they left, their paths crossed, and Wade says, “See ya later.” And the man, in a suddenblitz, attacked Sim from his side.

“I fell backward, and he went berserk. He was a very big guy, and I didn’t even get a chanceto react or to punch him back. I thought he was punching me.”Sims crawled back and escaped as witnesses dragged the American away. Sim got up andsaw a lot of blood.

“I thought that he’d been cut somehow!” says Rachel. “She yelled out that I had been cut,” says Sim. I looked down, and I could see my intestines.I stood there with them in my hand. I was lucky. I had a few drinks, so that probably helped mebecause I didn’t realize how bad it was. I was stabbed nine times, six in the back, twice in thethroat and once in the side.”

Black and some English backpackers they met earlier carried Sim to the street and hailed ataxi. Black and an English woman maintained pressure on the gaping abdominal wound and triedto stem the flow of blood from the throat. Sim went into shock during the ride. When they arrivedat a medical center five minutes away, the doctors refused to treat him. Black was screaming thatSim had lost a lot of blood, but later claimed she wasn’t sure that the doctors even knew what todo.

One of the backpackers held the taxi, and they got back in. By this time Sim was completelyunconscious, and they had to carry him. They drove to yet another hospital four or so minutesaway. This time the doctors went to work immediately and 65 stitches and a six-day stay laterSim made plans to leave the country.

Police arrested the American, shortly after he left the scene and charged him with attempt-ed murder. However, during Sim’s recovery his would-be assassin showed up at the hospital withflowers somehow evading the police guard posted at the door to Sim’s room.“I think he actually came to threaten us. He was supposed to remain in custody for a mini-mum of 12 days, but they let him out in six. I insisted he leave the room, and he did.”The Embassy suggested they attend a court hearing and then leave the city as quickly as pos-sible.

“The Embassy promised to keep watch on the proceedings,” reported Sim, who was off firstto Australia and then back to New Zealand. “There must be a lot of corruption over there. Howdid he know my name and what hospital I was in? Where was the guard?”

Squadroom Quote“I feel like I have a shotgun in my mouth, my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste ofmetal.”

—Actor Robert Downy Jr. to a criminal court judge.

26 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

Editor’s Note: The following excerpttaken from What Cops Know byConnie Fletcher presents an accuratehard-hitting picture of what a career inlaw enforcement may involve. Thebook is a must read for anyone con-sidering a career in law enforcement.Available through Villard Books, a divi-sion of Random house.

Iwas with two other traffic offi-cers, and we were on our wayto meet an informant that wasgoing to set up a drug buy withWillie “The Wimp” Stokes. I wasin the backseat, and my twopartners were in the front. I’mlooking out the back window,and there’s a car speeding upbehind us, the driver’s flashinghis lights at us, blowing the horn.It’s a male black driver, and he’sgot a little kid with him. Shouldwe stop? We don’t want to stop;We’re on the way to a drug buy.We’re in an undercover car, butit’s got identifiable plates, so ifwe don’t stop, we’ll be in trou-ble.

I exited the car andapproached the car behind us.Now this guy had done the per-fect police stop, it’s what theyteach you in the Academy: halfof his car, the passenger’s half,was lined up with the center ofour car. His right headlight wasdead center with the back of ourcar. A perfect police stop. Theyteach you never to pull directlybehind the car you’re stopping,but to park your car halfway onthe car you’re stopping so you give yourselfsome cover.

As I approached the car, I could seethis guy, and he’s holding a gun. Now,everything starts going through my mind;He’s got the gun because this kid tried torob him, or the kid’s a burglar he caught inhis house, or it’s his kid and he found himwith a gun—everything runs through mymind except what actually happened.

I go up to the man and tell him to putthe gun on the dashboard. I see it’s a .32Magnum. The guy says nothing. He startsfiring at my partners, who are coming outof the car; the way he had parked his car,my partners were in an awkward situation,

they were coming out of the car with theirbacks to the guy. I returned fire as I beganto run toward cover, toward this telephonepole. I hit the guy in the chest, so I thoughtI got him. That’s it. But he’s not dead. Heturns and shoots me twice; my partners arepinned in the car; they’re half in and halfout. He hit me in the groin; if he’d gottenme an inch lower, I’d be speaking a fewoctaves higher. It felt like someonepunched me real hard. I flipped in the airand landed on my back. When I was on theground, I felt the blood running down,trickling down between my legs on theright side of my body, but the pain was allon the left side, that’s where the bullet hit

bone. I could feel where one bul-let came through and hit mypelvis. It slid right around andalmost came out the upper thigh ofmy left leg. I kept shooting. Inever went unconscious. I contin-ued returning fire and eventuallykilled him.

One of my partners was onthe radio screaming, “10-One, 10-One!” He’s all excited. I couldhear the dispatcher asking him,“Where are you?” He looks at thelight pole on the corner and tellsdispatch, “I don’t know. Someonestole the street sign.” So I calledon my own radio—“I know whereI’m at, and I’m bleeding, and I wantto go to the hospital.” I was prettycalm. I remember thinking, I had-n’t done enough in my life to haveit end right here.

It seemed like it took 15 or 20minutes from start to finish, butactually from the time the guystopped us to the time I wasthrown in the back of the wagon,and I mean they took me andthrew me in there, it took all ofthree minutes.

The only time I felt reallyweird was in the wagon on theway to the hospital. I startedhyperventilating. One of thepolice officers with me raised mylegs up; he said it’d get more bloodto my brain. He said, “Stop breath-ing so hard.” It worked.

When we got to the hospital,I’m holding where I think I’m shot.It felt like a large knot. The docsaid, “No, you’re shot over here”—

on the other side—“You see the holes righthere?” It just didn’t hurt where I was shot.

Later on I talked to the youth officerthat interviewed the little kid. The kid toldhim that his father was very upset that day.He’d been stopped by some police earlier.The kid said, “My dad was really mad, andhe said he was going to kill some cops.”The kid said that when his dad saw our car,he said, “Those are policemen. I’m gonnakill them.” The amazing thing was, the kiddidn’t get a scratch. There were 20 bulletholes in that car, the glass was all broken,and the kid is totally okay. I found out hisdad was a security officer for the Board ofEducation. ✪

Gotta Kill Me a Cop!By Connie FletcherTrue Cop Stories

Reprinted with the permission of Tiffand Books

Editor’s Note: Everyone experiences fear; thesweaty palms and racing heart can get the bestof even the most confident person at times. Mostindividuals go to great lengths to hide their fear,sometimes failing to admit it even to themselves.However, according to Gavin DeBecker, fear canprotect you too. It warns you of hidden danger and allows you tosurvive. In The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us fromViolence, DeBecker explains the many faces of fear and outlines howto make fear a tool for good.

Looking for Mr. Right has taken on a far greater signifi-cance than getting rid of Mr. Wrong, so women are nottaught how to get out of relationships. That high schoolclass would stress the one rule that applies to all types ofunwanted pursuit; do not negotiate.

Once a woman has made the decision that she doesn’twant a relationship with a particular man, it needs to besaid one time, explicitly.

Almost any contact after that rejection will be seen asnegotiation. If a woman tells a man over and over againthat she doesn’t want to talk to him, that is talking to himand every time she does it, she betrays her resolve in thematter.

When a woman gets 30 messages from a pursuer anddoesn’t call him back, but then finally gives in and returnshis calls, no matter what she says, he learns that the costof reaching her is leaving 30 messages.

Of course, some victims are worried that by notresponding they’ll provoke him, so they try letting himdown easy. Often the result is that he believes she is con-flicted, uncertain, really likes him but just doesn’t know ityet.

When a woman rejects someone who has a crush onher and she says, “It’s just that I don’t want to be in a rela-tionship right now,” he hears only the words “right now.”

The rejection should be: “I don’t want to be in a rela-tionship with you.”

If she says, “You’re a great guy and you have a lot tooffer, but I’m not the one for you; my head’s just not in theright place these days,” he thinks: “She really likes me; it’sjust that she’s confused. I’ve got to prove to her that she’sthe one for me.”

Unwanted pursuers may escalate their behavior toinclude such things as persistent phone calls and mes-sages; showing up uninvited at a woman’s work, school, orhome; following her.

If any of these things happens, assuming that thewoman has communicated one explicit rejection, it is veryimportant that no further detectable response is given.

(Reprinted with permission from Little Brown Press.You may purchase Gift of Fear at all major bookstores.)

Notes from the Citizens Self Defense LeagueDitching Mr. Wrong

April /May 2001 • 27

Scuttlebutt

VotesBy far the biggest worldwide scuttlebuttCQCMAG hears is over the recent attempt-ed blocking of the absentee US presidentialelection ballots in Florida, many of whichwere submitted by members of the military.Enlisted and com-missioned alike directgreat venom towardAl Gore. They eitherbelieve he is thecause of the law-suits, or believe hel i e d a b o u t h i sinvolvement anddeceptively used aFlorida democrat asa front man to erasetheir predominatelyrepublican votes.M e a n w h i l e l a s tDecember, in the midst of the “every votemust count,” campaign, key democratsblocked legislation that would allow elec-tion polls on domestic and overseas US mil-itary bases-whose purpose is to make iteasier for uniformed personnel to vote. TheJacksonville, Florida Times-Union news-paper reports the Clinton Administrationasked Senate Democrats to put a hold onthe bills–a tactic used to kill bills.

Gulf War Nerve Gas AlertThe US Pentagon plans to notify 35,000Gulf War veterans they may have beenexposed to sarin gas after US troops blewup the Khamisiyah weapons facility insouthern Iraq March 10th 1991. Troopsinvolved include the demolition units andthose in the predicted gas plume roughly300 miles long and 30 miles wide south ofthe plant. The CIA believes there were 225rockets destroyed releasing approximately820 lbs. of sarin and cyclosarin. For moreinformation visit www.gulflink.osd.mil.

Shrinking the Size of GovernmentA soon-to-be retired naval officer stationedin Washington DC suggested CQCMAGlook past former Vice President Al Gore’s

claim that the Clinton administrationreduced the size of US government. Onemajor method used during the Clintonadministration to reduce the number of mil-itary personnel was to replace them withcontractors who are not officially listed asemployees. The officer reports, “I plan toretire and then returning to my exact samejob as a contractor, where I will receivetwice the pay for performing the same job.”

BeretsThe second biggest scuttle is the upcomingplans to issue black berets to all membersof the US Army instead of just to theRangers and a smattering of other units.Retired and active duty beret wearersobject in various letter and protest cam-paigns, including some heated correspon-dence to the US Congress. The Pentagon istrying to reassure the complainants that themove is not meant to “knock the Rangersdown a peg,” but rather to improve team-work and morale. Rangers come by thisconcern legitimately. Former SpecialForces vets reported to CQCMAG thatthey were assigned to military installationswhere the base commanders refused toallow them to wear their berets. “They werejealous. They would say things like, ‘I wearan Army hat so we all will wear an armyissue hat.’ So there I was, an AirborneRanger walking around in a ball cap.”

Hostage CoverDuring the 1950 Cuban Revolution, Castro’sguerrillas captured and held US Marineshostage at key places to discourage bomb-ing.

The SneezerOn 26 December, one Michael McDermottwalked into his place of employment atEdgewater Technology in Wakefield, MAwith an AK-47 rifle, a shotgun and a pistoland killed seven workers. His motive? IRSgarnished his wages for back taxes. In 1980he passed strin-gent psychologytests in the USNavy to serve onthe nuclear sub-marine the USSNarwhal. One ofh is crewmates

said that when somebody got into his per-sonal space, McDermott would sneeze rightinto that person’s face.

Excuse me, but could you pleasemove that aircraft carrier?Officials of the US Navy staff are chucklingat a White House staffer who asked them tomove the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrierso (then) President Clinton’s Cole disastermemorial service would have a clear seabehind him for better photographs.

Flea BombsThree days before the United Statesdropped two atomic bombs on Japan, itsImperial Air Force prepared to drop achemical bomb of the bubonic plague overSan Diego, CA. Small test runs were madeon China’s Manchuria, successfully infect-ing hundreds of unsuspecting Chinese.Following Nagasaki and Hiroshima andbefore Japan officially surrendered, itordered the destruction of the chemicalwarfare plant to hide its intentions. Years ofinterrogation and post war friendshipsbrought the plot to the attention of militaryintelligence but not to the media and theAmerican public. The bug bomb was a hugeceramic container of thousands and thou-sands of meticulously infected fleas sched-uled to drop on Southern California. IfPresident Truman had not acted when hedid, a bombing raid, the likes to overshad-ow Pearl Harbor, may have occurred.

Help the Gurkha FundThe Gurkha Welfare Trust was establishedin 1969 for the relief of poverty-strickenretired Gurkha soldiers and their depend-ents. It aims to provide financial, medicaland community aid and to alleviate hard-ship and distress among Gurkhas who livein conditions in Nepal that are unimagin-able to westerners. For more information,write The Gurkha Welfare Trust, ThirdFloor, 88 Baker Street, London WIM 2AX.

Tolerability of DeathWesterners have a low tolerance for causal-ities. In 1879 the British government andher people could lose 1,500 men in an hour

“Get the inside scuttle on the military,

from the decks of ships, the posts and

bases from around the world.”

Continued on page 35

28 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

April /May 2001 • 29

Star Trek Star Date Feb 2001. Ever imag-ine what a Klingon dick looks like? Imean, we have seen what his head lookslike. What about his dick? As a flaming het-erosexual, I don’t like the look of dicksanyway…but a Klingon’s?

Ever notice how now that all thesesatellites and shuttles are flying aroundmapping and observing every swinginginch of the Earth, and looking off intoplaces only Einstein dreamed of…there areno more UFO sightings? Have UFO’s beenscared off? Or have there ever really beenany? And why do UFO’s need lights any-way? What’s with having a light on your fly-ing saucer in outer space? ‘fraid of colli-sion? What? And now that we have satel-lites that can penetrate oceans and countthe scales on bottom dwellers…where thehell has the Loch Ness Monster gone?

If aliens are smart enough to penetratethe universe, don’t cha think they wouldhave an X-ray machine or an MRI to do thebody probing for them instead of thosestainless steel anus and skull drillsabductees like to whine about?

If God isn’t human then he’s—not ofthis earth, right? So is he or she an alien?Does this mean all these churches are real-ly worshiping an alien? So when is some-body going to get the balls to tell them?

How old is Willie Nelson?

If we can put a man on the moon,why can’t we do the following?

a) If democrats want to save theworld with more social programs andtaxes, why not have a check-off box on taxreturns that reads something like this…“Iam a democrat, and I hereby volunteer topay more taxes, so please accept an addi-tional 10 percent of my income to go formore social programs,” and leave the restof us and our money alone! Then, let’s seehow many of them check it off and send itin the cash.

b) Talk to Hitler? There’s an ESP guyon TV now that talks to dead people.Somebody in the audience mentions aname like Pete, and the ESP guy says, “Ohyeah, Pete. Pete died with red socks on.”The person in the crowd jumps up anddown and then cries. Sho-nuff, Pete had hisreds on the night of the head-on.

Another big fat woman on TV sits withLarry King and talks to dead people. Shedoesn’t even need to see the person on thephone asking her about certain dead guys.Just mention a name on the phone, and shestarts right in talking about that dead guy.In a second! She just picks up the ESP vibethrough Larry’s telephone. King sits therelike a big dumb-ass with his jaw hanging.King asks her a question about Heaven thatmy 3-year-old nephew would think of.

Why don’t they ask important shit? Areghosts wearing clothes? What’s the furni-ture like there? Are they all blurry blobs oflight? And why doesn’t the lady talk toHitler? Or Mother Teresa? What about Lee

Harvey Oswald? LeeHarvey could fill us in onthe Kennedy assassina-tion. I want to hear whatHitler has to say, don’tyou? Bring his ass up!Wouldn’t you like to tellHitler to get fucked! Everymurder victim could tellus who killed them! No!It’s always about shit like

colored socks. Fuck Pete’s socks! Whokilled Pete!

The Real Big Mystery Religious guys on TV see God all the

time, or at least they say they talk to him.But they must just be having a lot of busi-ness meetings with him because in the end,they always need more money. I think thatGod is an alien and he comes and goeswhen he feels like it. He is not the every-day, everywhere Big Daddy in the sky storythat has been around since Zeus.

Speaking of Zeus, I like him better. Atleast you know where you stood with Zeus.Zeus drank and would fuck with peoplejust cause he was bored. You knew this andexpected problems. It always hurts andsurprises you when God fucks with you. It’sso not like him!

I understand all this from looking atears. Yeah, ears. Ears are funny things.Funny looking, but all ears look a lot alike.White guy ears. Black guys ears. Asian ears.African ears. European ears. I have seenstrings of ears, ears on sticks, hung frombelts—dried ears strung into necklaces.

You see ears are trophies to some sol-diers, like a body count. Why? It’s anothermystery. They have to be all from one sideyou know. Say, all left ears. I mean, if youhad right and left ears that could be one killand your macho kill rate would be in ques-tion. Gotta be the same side ears. One nightI stuck my hand in the rucksack of a deadsoldier and found the ear of small child. Ithad an earring on the lobe. I guess it was agirl’s? I don’t know, but the ear was verysmall. That was the night I decided Godwas an alien who got this rocky yo-yo wecall Earth rolling and then bailed out to seeif he left his UFO lights on.

Will he be back? Hope so. He’d betternot crash out there! Better keep those UFOlights on! He ain’t dead! We know this fromthe fat lady on TV. She told Larry King thatGod was alive and well. Whew! Huh? Prayall you want, but we human folks have beenleft standing here on this strange alien land-scape, cause the Enterprise transporter isbroken, just broken down flat. Our mis-sion? To hang on to our ears as best we canuntil they fix it. Oh well, it all works out insome mysterious way, just ask the fat lady.

Oh, and watch out for those Klingons!Yeechh!

Bye Bye ✪

Klingons, Ears and otherMysteries of the Universe

“Buffalo Nickels is a retired US Army special forces operator who

does occasional consultant work and wishes to remain anonymous so he may put in his five cents worth on life, liberty and the

pursuit of whatever he sees fit.”

“Funny looking, but all ears look a lot alike.”

Buffalo Nickels

30 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

We were still several hundred miles fromthe border and the days of marchingthrough hot, sticky jungle were some of thetoughest I have ever experienced, comingas they did on top of weeks of strenuousaction. I can still feel the wonderful surgeof relief when we reacheda tributary of theChindwin and gazed at thecool, swirling water. Thetemptation was too hard toresist. We were not out ofdanger yet, but we all badlyneeded a soaking and wehad neither seen nor heardof any Japs in the past dayor two. I gave the order tostrip off for a bath. The mendidn’t need telling twice. Theriver was at its pre-monsoonlevel, with a swiftly flowingcurrent but nothing like theraging torrent it wouldbecome in a week or two. Atthis point there were littlepromontories of tree-coveredland nosing their way into thewater wi th sandy covesbetween them, like a coastlinein miniature. I undressed withthe men in one of the coves thenwandered off by myself. Lookingback I still can’t think exactlywhy I did so. Perhaps I felt that,although we got along well togeth-er, they might like a few minutesto themselves without an officerpresent. Or perhaps I needed amoment or two away from myresponsibilities.

I walked round a little head-land knee-deep in the deliciouslycool water then dived in and gotmyself wet all over before taking alook at my surroundings. I saw that Iwas in a cove similar to the one whereI could hear the men splashing aboutand shouting cheerfully to one another, but

slightly smaller. I also saw that I was notalone.

On the beach, as naked as I was, stooda Jap. A pile of clothes lay near his feet andin my first startled glance I

took in the insignia of anofficer on his bush shirt. It was the secondtime within a fortnight that I had come face-

to-face with the enemy at a completelyunexpected time and place, and for the sec-ond time we were both too startled tospeak. I wondered what he was doing alonein that little cove, and then I heard moresplashing and shouting from the other sideof the far promontory. This time the voiceswere Japanese.

Fantastic as it seemed I could onlyconclude that he was out with a patrol andhad made the same decision as I had,namely to wander off on his own while hismen went swimming. I watched him care-fully in case he dived for his gun, but heappeared to be listening for something.Then a strange gleam came into his nar-row eyes, and I realized he had heard mymen.

I was baffled. If I yelled for help, theJap patrol would hear me, as well as myown. There were 12 of us, but theremight be 20 or 30 of them; in that casetheir superior numbers would givethem the advantage if it came to an allout fight in the confined cove.

While I was still thinking hard, theJap officer stepped into the river andcame toward me. I think his mindmust have been working much likemine; he could see that I wasunarmed, but if he used his gun itwould bring both patrols running,and he did not know our strength.We were behind the main retreat,but for all he knew I may have col-lected a large band of stragglers.Anyway, he wasn’t taking anychances on an open fight, whichwould needlessly risk his men’slives. He preferred to tackle mewith his bare hands.

He knew his ju-jitsu and thewater on his body made him asslippery as an eel, but I was the

bigger and stronger. We fought in silenceexcept for an occasional grunt, and strug-gled and slipped and thrashed around untilwe were at times waist deep in the swirling

Fighting MadBy Michael Calvert

Battlefield Diary

(Reprinted with permission fro

m Bantam Books. Book cover

artwork by George Tsui.

For more information about b

ooks that feature real-life com

bat scenarios about

World War II, we recommend

Bantam’s War Series.)

April /May 2001 • 31

river. It was an ungainly fight, almost inslow motion, for it is extraordinarily diffi-cult to keep balance or move quickly andsurely in two or three feet of water. Ourbreathing became heavier and the Jap gotmore vicious as he jabbed his fingers at myface in an attempt to blind me. I think it wasnot until then that I fully realized this wouldhave to be a fight to the death.

I was a trained soldier, taught how tokill with a gun, or a bomb, or a bayonet oreven a knife in the thick of battle. Somehowthis seemed different, more personal, as thetwo of us, naked as we were, fought in thewater. Apart from anything else, I had cometo admire this game little Jap. He had all theguts in the world. He could so easily havecalled up his men and let them fight it out,but he had chosen to protect them by tak-ing me on alone.

Now he was putting up a tremendousshow, and I was hard put to it to hold him. Ipulled myself together. Brave or not, I hadto kill him. Or he would kill me. I wasthankful for one lesson I had learned: neverto take my bootsoff in the jungleouts ide camp.Other clothes canbe scrambled onin a moment butboots take time,and time can costl ives. Even onthis occasion Ihad stuck to my rule, which was just aswell. I managed to grab the Jap’s right wristand force his arm behind his back. And Iburied my face in his chest to stop himclawing my eyes out. Then, as he lashed outwith his left arm and both feet, I forced himgradually under water. My boots gave me afirm grip, and I shut my eyes and held himunder the surface. His struggles grew weak-er and weaker, flared again in franticdespair and then he went limp. I held on fora few seconds longer before releasing mygrip. Slowly I opened my eyes and for amoment could see nothing except theeddies of water caused by his final effortsto break free. Then his body emerged onthe surface a couple of yards away andfloated gently off downstream.

I watched it, fascinated as it bobbedalong, face upward, like a ghastly yellowOphelia. It seemed hours since I had left mymen and met up with this unfortunate Jap.Gradually the training and discipline andwill to survive took over in my mind and Iforced myself to think straight. How longwas it, in fact? Probably fifteen minutes.His men would miss him soon. There was

no time to be lost. I turned, waded onto thebeach and staggered round the headland.The desperate fight for my life had taken alot out of me, and I felt physically ill.

My men were mostly out of the waternow, lazing about in various stages ofundress. Two of them were singing “We dolike to be beside the seaside,” while the oth-ers laughed and joked about how good theweather was for this time of the year atBrighton.

Then my sergeant saw me and ran upto help. The singing and laughing faded outand the men stared in amazement. Theythought I had been bathing and resting andhere I was scratched and bruised all overand obviously exhausted.

“What happened, sir?” “Japs,” I croaked. “In the next cove but

one. They don’t know we’re here, but theywill in a moment ... I killed their officer. Getafter them now.”

They grabbed their guns and went offquickly and quietly. They found about 20Japs, took them completely by surprise and

killed thema l l . T h e r ewas no placefor prisonersat that time;we had littleenough foodand water asi t was , andin any case

guarding them on a 2 or 300-mile jungle trekwhen we might run into another Jap patrolat any moment would have been an impos-sible task. The sergeant told me later thatthey had only just made it in time. Soonafter they reached the Japs’ cover the offi-cer’s body floated past.

Left to myself on the beach, I was vio-lently sick. I had never felt so wretchedbefore. I told myself that this was war, andthe type of free-lance war I specialized incould be as nasty as the wholesale bombingof helpless civilians in a town. In fact thishad been a fair fight. The Jap had asked forno quarter and would certainly have givennone. I told myself all this, but it did nothelp much.

Some sensational press reports havesaid that I killed more Japanese single-handed during the war than any otherBritish or American soldier. I don’t know ifthis is true; but I do know that I felt like amurderer that afternoon over that particu-lar Jap.

Even now, so many years afterward,the memory of it is too clear and comesback to me too often. ✪

It was the second time within a fortnightthat I had come face-to-face with the

enemy at a completely unexpected timeand place, and for the second time we

were both too startled to speak.

Balkan Watch: British Jail for Serbs

Serbian war criminals, some of themost wanted men in the world, could beheld in British jails if found guilty of ethniccleansing. The cells offered to the UN wartribunals once housed IRA criminals andcould now be used for the Serbs such asSlobodan Milosevic and Ratko Mladic–menaccused of some of the worst ethnic cleans-ing since Hitler and Nazi Germany.

Congo CombatEconomists and military advisors

report that the war in Africa’s Congo is theworld’s largest, affecting at least 10 coun-tries and 16 million people. The UN reportdescribes Congo’s war as one of the worsthumanitarian crises in history. The fightingbetween differing, political factions of thesix neighbors, is all done by ill-trained sol-diers with small arms.

Europe Watch: Swiss Army “Keeps Their Knives”

Swiss voters have overwhelminglyrejected a move to slash their long cher-ished “civilian” army. In a nationwide refer-endum, 1.1 million voters, opposed by a 68-32 percent majority, rejected a proposal fora peacetime cutback of the military budgetby left wing humanitarian critics. With part-time military service required for eachSwiss man, the country has long prideditself on its militia system that stands readyto defend the Alps homeland. Citizens areissued and maintain heavy military equip-ment like machine guns in their homes.Critics declared that there is no obviousthreat to the neutral country. One Swiss

resident replied, “Allinvaded countries startout as neutral.”

Thailand Watch: Thai Commandos Shoot Straight

With precision shooting, lastNovember, a small squad of Thai comman-dos shot and killed nine Thai prisoninmates when they attempted to escape.The declared murderers and drug suspectstook and held three prison officials hostageduring an ambush as they attempted to fleeThailand. The armed escapees, originallyfrom neighboring Burma, obtained a cacheof guns during their incarceration andkilled a visiting Buddhist lecturing at thejail before they commandeered a pickuptruck and attempted to drive back to theirhomeland. The Commandos attacked thetruck near Burma. One hostage sustainedserious injuries from gunfire in the raid onthe vehicle and another suffered a minorstab wound from the inmates. A thirdhostage escaped unscathed. An investiga-

tion has begun to determine how theinmates obtained the weapons.

Middle East Watch: UN Uniforms Stolen

Hezbollah guerillas, disguised as UNpeacekeepers, seized three Israeli soldiersat the Lebanese border October 2000.

Archipelago Watch: Bullets vs. Arrows in Indonesia

In an effort to thwart an independencemovement not unlike one in East Timor,Indonesian President Wahid dispatchedthousands of heavily armed troops to thejungles of Irian Jaya– a province on thewestern half of the island of New Guineathat has about 2 million residents from var-ious cities and tribes. In December 2000this force opened fire on rebels while theytook down the Indonesian flag and tried tohoist a freedom banner. Some of the rebelsshot back with bows and arrows. Thisisland houses the world’s largest copper

CQCMAG stands watch where conflicts may begin and explains

why we must train to prepare for them.

World Watch

Reprinted with permission of Time Magazine.

32 • Close Quarter Combat Magazine

and gold mines, operated by United StatesCompany Freeport-McMorgan.

The Indo FlightAt least 163 people drowned when two

boats carrying illegal immigrants fromIndonesia san