Frag Out! Magazine
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ACCESSORIES I ncredibly charismatic people eve- rywhere. The lower the number on the ID card, the more experienced the soldier, meaning they'd been with "the company," as the unit was then called by its member, longer. A unique atmosphere... The air smelled different there. The prede- cessors had done a great job ma- king the "work environment" special. Amidst all this, I, getting to know this extraordinary world, was disco- vering the unit, drawing gear from armory, and preparing for the to- ughest, legendary course in the co- untry. As my close friend "Kula" (Bul- let) would say, my eyes were wide like a frog staring at a lawnmower… The basic training at JWG was divi- ded into two stages: the KDS (basic Special Operations Course) and the Combat Team Operators Course, collectively called the basic course within "the company." The unique nature of the unit, cre- ated and ready for the most dange- rous special operations, meant that a GROM operator had to be perfec- tly trained. Firearms training back then was top-tier in the country, and the instructors, under the guidance of the course leader and Head of the Training Department (ID #034), implemented very difficult, dyna- mic, and demanding shooting drills, which paid off in the HRO (Hostage Rescue Operations) that the unit specialized in. As one former com- mander, Col. Grzegorz Mikłusiak "Maken", used to say, "HR operation is the queen of tactics," and the unit was created precisely for this. Ac- cording to another former comman- der, Col. Piotr Gąstał: "There is Such a Force in Poland..." – a dedicated, specially equipped and trained for- mation, specializing in hostage re- scue both domestically and abroad. One such shooting training drills introduced by the instructor staff was the so-called "one to five," which involved firing 15 rounds at three targets in three seconds, with both rifle and pistol. I thought then that it would be great to have a muzzle device that would reduce recoil and muzzle flip, while also allowing for faster shooting. Passing this drill with 9mm HK USP with a standard trigger was particularly difficult, but not impossible. Everyone who com- pleted the course was able to beat this time, and the best was "Słowik" (Nightingale), who, when I asked him how he did it with such a fast trigger finger and sense of rhythm, would answer with a smile: Nintendo. Due to my many years of experience in martial arts before and during my service, as well as being an instruc- tor of the military martial arts pro- gram (WWBK) introduced into the army since 2005 by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Włodzimierz Kopeć (then a captain) – a former officer of Formoza naval special warfare unit and the AWL - the Land Forces Academy, whe- re I completed instructor courses – I connected the dots even more. During the course, I noticed that the WWBK system primarily focused on rifle use, for obvious reasons, and