MARSOC | Tactical Driving and Shooting Course

you're not only serving the american people but you're serving your team your team is your lifeline it's the most important thing to you downrange there's nothing more important to you in a hairy situation than your teammates there's no thanks in this line of work don't come here expecting someone to say thank you so much for what you're doing you'll get that from civilians walking on the side of the road just being the military here you do the mission you reconcile out again no one will know what you're doing no one will know where you are no one know what you're working in they're not going to know the context of your job you're going to be out there with your team when you leave that country come back home that's it caliber of people i work with is the highest the caliber they've been through assessment selection they've been deemed but ultimately their moral caliber and their ability to handle themselves as a normal person from their day-to-day life is the highest caliber of people i've ever worked with i would go anywhere and do anything with any one of these guys that i work with so our training that we're participating in here is designed to enhance the overall operator driving is always a plus having that advanced driving capability to recognize the road ahead of you identify dangers and avoid them is not only survivability stateside it's also increasing your survivability oconus undeployment learning to take vehicles to their threshold you're learning where that vehicle's breaking point is center of gravity is going to change the point that's dangerous for you and your team it's life-saving in the sense that if you're in a situation where you have to do evasive driving aggressive driving you know what that vehicle is capable of and how to use that vehicle to your advantage how to maneuver in traffic out of traffic get around vehicles get out of situations and always have a way out it just really teaches you how to manipulate your vehicle understand your vehicle just so if you're ever in that situation you have all the tools you need to be successful shooting is always a plus the ability to precisely put around where you need to greatly enhances the survivability of the team and reduces collateral damage and increases mission success the piece over being top to right range an average person's reaction time is a quarter of a second so when a target presents itself you have a quarter second you react to a change and act on it so you start at the low ready the target presents itself you have quarter second to get your sights on target and squeeze the trigger and make sure it's accurate and dead center in a vehicle getting out of a vehicle taking cover exchanging fire from that aspect versus standing online and just shooting paper targets all day i'm working on basic marksmanship skills most of the guys here have done that we're at that level and we're looking for the next level of training and that's absolutely what they're capturing for us here we're shooting in civilian attire where all we have is a concealed weapon and we have to react or we might be in a full kit as our training we're prepared to do anything that's required of us and anything that might be interesting to accomplish our adversaries overseas are learning our ways so we're having to shift and adjust our training and do things differently so every day is is learning you can never walk around and think that you have it all know it all the men to my left and right they have a sense of drive they have a sense of pride there's just something about him that you'll never find anywhere else somebody's thinking about marshall what i would say to him is go for it it never hurts to try the only thing that's ever going to hurt is your pride but just pick yourself up test yourself off and do it again you

Channel: Marines

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Id: a6-nuuRhOz0

Length: 3min 55sec (235 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 23 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Would come in handy when your trying to get off base at 1600 on Friday.

[u/tworkout]

This makes me want to re-enlist. Fuckin' Marine Corps and your stupid moto boner videos.

[u/bug_eyed_earl]

Rewatched Zero Dark Thirty last night and then this? How many more hours should I wait for this massive boner to subside before I call a doctor?

[u/kjlanno]

Bruhhhhhhh

[u/veritasserum]

I wanna go. You think they'll notice if I take 30 years off my Driver's License date?

[u/Roadivator]

MRW

[u/Usmc1stcivdiv]

Honestly I'd just want to be able to roll around rocking a glorious low reg.