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EDNEYVILLE N.C. – Soldiers assigned to Detachment One, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 151st Aviation Regiment, trained in the U.S. Army’s combative techniques during their annual training event at the North Carolina Western Justice Academy in Edneyville, N.C., June 4, 2015.
The combative course teaches a Soldier the fundamentals of hand-to-hand combat, which is one of the building blocks for training the modern Soldier.
Staff Sgt. Thomas Walls, a combative instructor assigned to Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group, taught the aviation Soldiers about the basic combative techniques.
Walls has an extensive background in martial arts and has been teaching the Army combative course for numerous years.
“I grew up watching Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris movies thinking, that is what I want to do,” said Walls.
During the combative training, soldiers learned basic striking techniques using their hands, feet, knees and elbows, as well as other basic concepts and principles of ground fighting.
“We’re trying to gravitate away from teaching a prescribed stimulus and a prescribed response. Instead offer enough techniques with a theory behind them, so that Soldiers can recognize the position they’re in and know what technique to apply that will work best in that specific situation,” said Walls.
During the training, Walls created an emphasis on awareness because soldiers may encounter dangerous circumstances on or off the battlefield.
“Soldiers have to understand it all begins with having the right mindset,” said Walls. “In those situations when something catches your attention, you’re not always going to have a weapon so you need to have some physical means of defending yourself.”
Combative techniques aren’t a focal point for Soldiers assigned to the detachment. The majority of the time these Soldiers are conducting operations above the ground, flying over an area trying to find someone needing assistance.
“The objective for today was to give these Soldiers an introduction to [Army] combative [training] that would build on what they already knew,” said Walls.
The detachment is authorized approximately forty-three Soldiers. The mission of the detachment is to provide assistance to local, county and state authorities in search and recovery operations.
| Date Taken: | 06.04.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 06.19.2015 09:22 |
| Story ID: | 167273 |
| Location: | EDNEYVILLE, NC, US |
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