[New] FIGHTING IN & AROUND VEHICLES

to see if the situation improves? (I held off/bottled it once and it almost ended badly for me - that was my mindset-change-wake-upcall moment.) How do you know when to bail? Who else is in your vehicle that you are responsible for? What kit/equipment, in your vehicle do you need to take with you? Who grabs it? This is a sore point with me, as too many people carry too much shit that they don't need and spread it around inside their vehicle like they're arranging their office desk. Once you bail, and you go noisy, how do you physically identify the other people in your team, in amongst a crowd of running, panicking, people?

How do you communicate with the other members of your team, when you cannot physically see them because of other vehicles, buildings, obstacles? All that needs to be trained in.

Our training is by no means perfect because there are no perfect options. Truth is they all might suck as much as the next one. Our training is not pretty or choreographed - it is messy and fluid. But what our training IS - is that's it's based on horrible, shitty realities of horrible shitty incidents.

Our Hard Extraction Level 1 - 3 and our Personal Defense (Vehicles) courses, respectively, address these horrible, shitty realities. Rigidity of thought and the rigid application of "drills" should be avoided at all costs. Both will kill you dead.

CAVEAT - It gives me no pleasure whatsoever, to use the Howes & Woods incident of 19 March 1988, in Northern Ireland, for explanatory purposes and for anyone that knew them personally. I hope I do not cause upset or offense by using, what happened to these guys, as a means to debunk some of the nonsensical statements being opined surrounding this kind of training and the face-palming offerings being delivered by some training providers in this subject.

Neil Davis was an undercover soldier with a British intelligence gathering organization in Northern Ireland and went on to work in a similar capacity in other parts of the world, before establishing Go Noisy, with his partner, Tsarina Youhnovska, in 2018.

By James Bore