Frag Out! Magazine
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Day 1 We meet in the abandoned plant in northern Warsaw, where a team slowly prepares to the training. We began, as befits a professional training, from introducing an instructor and a short lecture. And it was a first surprise, since Eli earnestly told us whom he was and what had been his experience. He did not talk baloney "that he had served in the secret unit and could not tell us details, and if he had told us about the missions which he had realized, he would have to kill us". Some people use such tricks in order to build their position on the monosyllables, understatements and general claptrap. Eli, as every Israeli, did his duty with IDF, and in detail in the Sayeret Tzanhanim (paratroopers) for four years. It is not an impressive career and experience, so at this very moment I started to have doubts, but I just thought that if I were there so maybe he was worth giving him a chance. After a short introduction, Eli showed us a short 1-minute video clip from the operation of the American special forces in the CQB environment. The movie was intended to attune us to operate and start a discussion directed towards the topics which we were supposed to raise in the further part of the training. We moved smoothly to an overview of the fundamental CQB principles, types of rooms and a theory of entering the rooms. What deserves to pay a special attention – a trainer all the time encouraged to asking questions and was not afraid to answer them – he responded to all of them, even the most stupid ones. This what pleased me was a statement that a technique of entering a room is selected with regard to the task and there is no universal method which solves all problems. We received TRAINING