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In Iraq’s Shadow
By Eric Schmitt
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“I recently read your webpage speeches on the problems with head butting. I work as a patrolman for a city in
the Midwest and have taken Jeet Kune Do. A few years ago I got into a scrap with a perpetrator in the middle of
the night. (We learned later he was a walk-around and look-out for two burglars inside a music store.) During
the confrontation, we grabbed each other, and I tried to throw him to the ground, but his footwork was fast. I
saw a chance to head butt him. I lowered my head, aiming for his nose, then lurched forward. When I woke up, I
was laying on the sidewalk, alone, my gun and badge gone! I had knocked myself out when I hit him. This was
very embarrassing, and members of my department still needle me about it. On one of my birthdays they gave
me a helmet as a present. There was a cartoon passed around that pictured officers shooting at a range and
me, down range, head butting the target with this helmet on. It’s funny but, I think I could have been killed.
Killed by my own pistol. I don’t like head butts either. And, despite all Mister JKD__________’s words, I would
never tell anyone to head butt.” —Name withheld by request.
In the martial arts article, she turned to run—but wait! Time
STAND DOWN ON THE HEAD BUTTS! for one more head butt! She stopped and without even
looking, knocked her head sideways into the side of the
By W. Hock Hochheim
attacker’s head, then she ran off. She was swinging her
head around as though it were an impact weapon! With
Two students charged and wrapped arms in the classic
“fighters clinch.” They crashed and both, independently,
decided to simulate head butts - just sudden, simulated
“The practice of striking the enemy with your
forehead smashes that were meant for the opposition’s
nose. The bad news was…they did them simultaneously, head in a butting fashion can be foolish, as
and for the first time in their lives actually cracked their you could well be stunned or fall uncon-
head against something. One wavered, while the other scious, either way subject to considerable
dropped to one knee! I weaved my way through the bat- enemy attack.”
tling groups in my 1989 Texas martial class over to the
duo.
“You alright?” I asked, and being young and tough,
articles like this, it is easy to see why so many are simulat-
they shook it off and continued. Both, however, had lost a
ing head butts in training. I myself can fake a darn good
few precious seconds. At session’s end, the topic came up
one, but honestly at times when doing so, I often feel a
in our parking lot gossip session.
second or two of dizziness. That is without any contact!
“Is that what can happen to you if you do a real head
Why the head butt craze? The head butt is often pro-
butt?” he asked. “Possibly,” was my answer, but now years
moted as some kind of easy, secret, dirty, tough-guy
later, I have a medical/scientific answer to that very ques-
weapon. Observing a simulated head butt is a very seduc-
tion. What I discovered many martial artists are just not
tive motion to the novice student seeking street creds.
going to like to hear. That answer is a very big, real “yes!”
Simulated! But vets tell a different tale. Worldwide, very
If indeed dangerous, why is the head butt so prolific
few military close combat battle manuals even mention
in the martial arts? Why, recently did a major, martial arts
head butts. Most soldiers are wearing helmets anyway, but
magazine run an article about a woman who, when
special operation personnel may not. One British commando
attacked by a man, demonstrates no less than five head
butts? First, came the usual groin kick, but next came a
series of head hammerings, which of course the acting
criminal reacted to with dramatic, thespian devastation.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently
issued a warning to all athletes to wear helmets in their
activities, telling them the light tap of a soccer ball should
be avoided. If the skull is so tough and resistant, how did
football players like Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman, their
heads ensconced in the latest padded, high-tech helmets,
suffer repeated knockouts and concussions? Because
their soft brains inside the hard skull, inside the helmet
still, freely splash and twist against the inside of the crani-
um.
manual warned, the brain are unable to regenerate. Repeated hits to the
“When you are stunned, or “Never do a head brain, even little ones, may result in a host of grave conse-
knocked unconscious, it’s butt.” Cautioned quences. Repeated injuries, even very minor ones have
from your brain splashing Dr. William Baker, been investigated. Some medical studies indicate prob-
a noted neuro-sur- lems like drug addiction, crime and other social misfit
against the inside of your geon. “But Doc,” I activity may result.
skull” have asked Baker
and so many other Sure, everyone has an anecdotal story about some Joe
MDs and EMTs, “what about using the harder parts of the who did a headbutt one night and survived, or we know of
skull to strike with, such as the crown-circling the top part a Neanderthal who has done several. Maybe Joe was
of your head?” This is often high-lighted by martial experts lucky. Maybe you should take a good look at Joe. Did Joe
as a so-called “safe” surface with which to head butt. finish high school?
Then other artists will tell you if you should head butt, try
to strike the nose of the enemy and there is much solace Do not misunderstand me. I am not telling you that you
in the collapsible nose giving way under such a hit. should never, ever, under any circumstances use a head
butt. There are rare times and positional situations when
“When you are stunned or knocked unconscious, it is that may be all you can do. In such a situation, steel your-
from your brain essentially splashing against the inside of self and do it! But first, tighten up your neck. If you are
your skull.” Dr Stephen Mendel told me. “If your brain holding the enemy’s head in your hands to try a nose
smashes up against one side, it will in most cases splash smash? Then you could and should probably hammer-fist
back, injuring the opposite side to a lesser degree.” the nose instead.
Unconsciousness also may result from your brain twist- Some of the biggest proponents of head butts have
ing-even ever-so-slightly-inside your cranium. At times with actually knocked themselves out when they have really
this twist, connectors can stretch or even rip free. It has done them in a fight! What I am warning you about is that
absolutely nothing to do with what part of your skull is you must not, cannot and should not build an entire fight-
thicker or harder and everything to do with the force that ing system around head butts. If you still disagree with
moves the brain inside the skull. “Another neurosurgeon, these brain surgeons, you may already be suffering from
Dr Kenneth Chen reports: the effects of one too many head butts!
Stand down on the head butts! God did not make your
“Sometimes the simplest bump on the head or a ding head to be an impact weapon!
from a fall could take away your sense of taste for life, or
your sense of smell, depending upon where the injury
occurs. You don’t want to risk these injuries.”
Still have
There are accelerated and decelerated brain injuries. If doubts? More
your head is hit from an outside force your brain is accel- brain ques-
erated inside your skull, hitting the far side of your skull. If tions? Below
your head travels to hit something, you experience a sud- are four of the
den stopping or deceleration of the brain. SPLASH! At best books
best, these splashes are also called—concussions! A con- I’ve ever read
cussion may result in temporary loss of brain function. on the brain.
There are three kinds of concussions. Read one or
more to gain
1) Mild - Confusion without amnesia. No loss of con- additional
sciousness. insight and
information.
2) Moderate - Confusion with amnesia. No loss of con-
sciousness.
In Iraq’s Shadow,
U.S. Snipers
By Eric Schmitt
“Properly employed, we can break the enemy’s back,” said “I shot one guy in the head,
Davis, 25, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. “Our main targets are
their main command and control elements, and other high-value and his head exploded.
targets.”
Usually, though, you just see
Soldiering is a violent business, and emotions in combat run a dust cloud pop up off their
high. But commanders say snipers are a different breed of war-
rior: Quiet, unflappable marksmen who bring a dispassionate clothes, and see a little blood
intensity to their deadly task.
“The good ones have to be calm, methodical and disci-
splatter come out the front.”
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“We try to get away from stereotypes Firearms are hardly new to most snipers — Davis and
Wilson grew up on farms, and both owned their first rifles
that you’re a psychotic gun nut, like before they were 10. They fondly remember hunting deer as
youngsters.
the guy in D.C.” Both men are married with children, but say they do not talk
much about their work outside their tight-knit clan.
The training paid off on Dec 18th. Dusk was setting in and
Davis was wrapping up a counter-sniper mission when he spot- “We try to get away from stereotypes that you’re a psychotic
ted an armed Iraqi on a rooftop about 300 meters away. He gun nut running around, like the guy in D.C., or like in the
said he knew the gunman was a sniper by the way he sneaked movies, a cool-guy assassin,” Davis said.
along the roofline to track a squad below Davis’s Unit - B
Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. There are not many targets these men dread, but in the
shifting battlefield that is Iraq, where seemingly everyone is
“The guy made a mistake, when he silhouetted himself armed, one candidate emerges. Would they ever shoot a child
against the rooftop,” said Davis, who has 20/10 vision. “He was who targeted them?
trying to look over to see where the guys were in the court-
yard.” “I couldn’t imagine that,” said Wilson, a father of five. But
Davis had a different view: “I’d shoot him, otherwise he’d shoot
Davis said that as the gunman rose from the shadows to fire, me. But I wouldn’t feel good about it.”
he saw his head and then the distinctive shape of a Dragonov
SVD Russian-made sniper rifle. Davis drew a bead on the
shooter with his weapon of hairs and a red aiming dot. Eric Schmitt works as a reporter for the New York Times cov-
“I went ahead and engaged him and shot him one time to the ering the Middle East.
chest,” Davis said, matter-of-factly. “I watched him kick back,
his rifle flew back, and I saw a little blood come out of his chest.
It was a good hit.” Three days earlier, B Company had walked
into an ambush in central Samarra. Gunmen on motorcycles
used children leaving school as cover to attack the patrol, Davis
said.
“I went ahead and engaged him
“We baby the hell out of them,” Davis said. They also carry his chest. It was a good hit.”
spotting scopes, laser rangefinders and barometers. Humid air
can alter a bullet’s course. Hot, dry air can cause a shot to fire
high.”
SQUAD ROOM
were women. More than half were white, one in three were
black, one in eight were Hispanic and 2 percent were of other
races.
About 75 percent of probationers were under active super- Moreover, the reports reveal that sexual slavery following
vision and were required to regularly report to a probation rape is also an ordinary occurrence. Stories abound of prison-
authority in person, by mail or by telephone. Half of all proba- ers who, once they are “turned out” (prison jargon for the ini-
tioners had been convicted of a felony, 49 percent of a misde- tial rape) become the rapists’ subordinates, forced to do
meanor and 1 percent of other infractions. Twenty-four per- menial jobs and sometimes “rented out” to other inmates to
cent had been convicted of a drug law violation and 17 per- satisfy their sexual needs. Prisoners face not only sexual
cent for driving while intoxicated or under the influence of assault from other inmates, but violence of all forms,
alcohol. often leading to horrific injuries and death.”
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time, target focus, and so on. In FOF training, we train people not
to enter this undesirable state. Therefore, we cannot claim that
because a technique holds up in minimum FOF training that it will
be reliable, or even possible, in a real-life encounter.
Hochheim Note: -To a SWAT team, it might mean raiding a shoot room
and having unruly occupants who will resist commands...
In Porterdale, GA, two, police officers received their -To a martial artist, it might mean punching and kicking
against a partner in a padded suit, who is kicking back...
walking papers because they were competing to see
who could write the most tickets in a single month. -To a stick fighter, it is stick sparring...
Erin Cox won the bet. He wrote 76 tickets. Frank -To a patrol officer, it might mean working a session on
pistol retention against a partner in a padded suit and hel-
Jackson wrote only 72. According to Mayor Paul met who is really trying to get the gun...
Oeland, the tickets were “petty in nature,”. He con-
-To a citizen, it might mean a Model Mugging Suit session
sidered the number of tickets “staggering” for part- battling an attacker...
time officers who only worked 16 hours per week. In summary, FOF training sessions are a loosely orches-
trated conflict with an enemy who resists to some degree.
“People were crammed into City Hall trying to pay,” Extra force is applied, and the intensity is notched up a few
clicks. FOF involves harder-core, interactive training with
Oeland says. “It all makes sense now. simulated weaponry and safety gear. And there you have
the FOF brain wrap! —W. Hock Hochheim
Mar 20 - 21 Elsmere, KY
Mar 27 - 28 Oreland/Philadelphia, PA
amid the dirt, mud and snow of Fort Campbell, Ky., that sucker did Sep 4-5 San Diego, CA
only one thing well: it jammed. Consistently. I reported back to Sep 9 - 12 Harvard MA: CQC Basic Instructor Camp t
Sep 18 - 19 Vero Beach, FL: PAC Seminar
Cassidy that — as opposed to the M-14, a first cousin to the reliable Sep 23 - 26 Kansas City, MO: Expert CQC Group Camp
M-1 rifle our soldiers packed for 20 years while punching holes in mil-
Oct 2-3 Chattanooga, TN: Special Street Ground Fighting
lions of Germans and Japanese, and Reds in Korea — the M-16 was Oct 9 - 10 Albuquerque, NM
a combat warrior’s biggest nightmare. Unless the rifle’s working parts Oct 16 - 17 Romeoville, IL: The CQC Group continues
Oct 23 - 24 Denver, CO: CQC Group continues
were surgically clean at all times, it misfired. Cassidy sent the jammer Oct 30 - 31 Florence, KY area
back to R&D and told them we’d be sticking with the M-14. But when
Nov 4-7 Valdosta, GA: Advanced CQC Group Camp
he left the 101st Airborne Division, he was replaced by one of the Nov 1 - 14 San Antonio, TX
forerunners of today’s Perfumed Princes. A year later, my 1/101st Nov 20 - 21 Los Angeles, CA
Nov 25 - 28 Melbourne, Australia
Brigade was ordered to Vietnam as one of the first units sent to that
swamp. And along with the deployment order came instructions to Dec 2 - 5 Capetown, South Africa
swap the rugged M-14 for the M-16 widow-maker. Dec 11 - 12 Madrid, Spain: Knife Seminar
Everyone fought this lousy order, from the brigade commanding For details, check www.HocksCQC.com or call 817-581-4021.
officer down, even though we didn’t have a prayer without a two-fisted
guy like Cassidy backing us up at the Head Shed. As anticipated, the
M-16 failed miserably. From 1965 to 1973, the Pentagon’s wonder
weapon was responsible for thousands of U.S. casualties in
Vietnam. And after 40 years of costly modifications, it’s still a jammer Hochheim Note:
the troops can’t count on in battle. Just ask our grunts in Iraq — who
Berlin: Cannibal gets off easy: Self-confessed cannibal
keep paying for it in blood and want it gone with a passion.
Armin Meiwes was cleared of murder recently and sen-
tenced instead to 8 1/2 years for manslaughter. Meiwes
Col. David H. Hackworth, author of his new killed Bernd Brandes—a man he met on the Internet after
best-selling Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts, as advertising for a willing victim— sauteed him in a bit of
well as Price of Honor and About Face, has
garlic, and washed him down with red wine. Judge
seen duty or reported as a sailor, soldier
Volker Mutze said the more serious murder charge was
and military correspondent in nearly a dozen
wars and conflicts from the end of World not appropriate because Brandes wanted to die and be
War II, Korea, Vietnam to the recent fights eaten. The two men were “psychologically sick people
against international terrorism. who found each other,” says the judge.
Have you heard of the Irish Whip? It is a classic grappling I may call it that, but many other systems like to use the same
move when an arm is grabbed and turned in revolutions so pow- root movements against a knife attacker. But, they always miss
erfully, a person either tumbles over, or experiences damage to two vital life-saving steps because they are attempting the move-
his shoulder. The name seems to come from “Catch-as-Catch ment against complying practice partners.
Can” wrestling. Well, I have adopted the root movement of this
technique and called it the Knifer’s Irish Whip. Here is how it is typically taught.
You interrupt a knife quick draw by charging forward dash and a two-handed grab.
Next, most systems dictate you go under and turn in...
...ramming the blade back into the attacker. A free hand often drives the blade home.
Then the average naive system ends the practice there.
ALWAYS ram a shoulder into the torso. Think football! ALWAYS finish the opponent. One stab does not a finish make.
There is isometric strength in that captured arm. Buckle it into a bend with a shoulder drive.
This breaks his isometric and opens the path to the stab.
pects crashed their getaway car in a wound to slow the bleeding until police
Sacramento, CA suburb and took off run- arrived. The suspect, Robert Lee Goode
ning to evade authorities. Ed Tippets was was taken to the hospital and later
in his backyard, watching several helicop- charged with second-degree burglary and
ters bearing down on his neighborhood, possession of burglar’s tools —The
Huntsville Times
obviously searching for someone, when
he noticed his dog, Charley, was acting
Justin Doyle was roused at 11 p.m. one
strange. “That’s when I decided to get
night by loud banging on his back door. In
armed,” he told authorities. Tippets
order to protect his pregnant wife and 19-
recalled that he went to the back of his
Jane Eden with Rudy Giulaini at a recent month-old child who were at home, Doyle
house to load his gun and then began
conference on Homeland Security. retrieved his rifle while his wife dialed 9-1-
searching room to room. Moving toward
1. Suddenly a glass door was smashed in
A Las Vegas, NV woman shot and the kitchen, Tippets noticed a shoulder in
with a cinder block and a man with a knife
killed her next-door-neighbor, whom she the doorway of his laundry room. “I saw a
burst into their home. Doyle shot the
had previously caught burglarizing her pistol pointing at me, so I started firing,”
home invader once in the torso, killing
home. Felipe Staks was trying to evade he said. The homeowner then ran outside
him. Police later identified the suspect as
police officers, who wanted him in connec- where he was ordered to the ground by
Manuel Villa. “The law allows citizens to
tion with a string of burglaries and a police. The suspect, later identified as
use deadly force to protect their homes,
parole violation, by using a crawl space Jermain Blair, fled the house and tried to
lives and property,” said police spokesman
above the two apartments. The woman escaping by jumping several fences. Blair
Jeff Arbogast. “Out of fear for his life, and
had just stepped out of her shower when confronted two police officers who had
the lives of his family, Mr. Doyle armed
Starks crashed through her ceiling.
Fearing for her life, she picked up a gun “The law allows citizens himself with a rifle and shot the intruder.
It’s a tragic event to have to go through.”
she had purchased after a burglary in to use deadly force to —Albuquerque Journal
April, and fired several shots at Starks, protect their homes,
who ran back into his apartment. Police
took him into custody, but he later died of
lives and property.” A 26-year-old Portsmouth, VA mother
had used her new .40-cal. pistol at the tar-
his wounds. Las Vegas homicide Lt. Tom get range for the first time and ended up
Monahan said it appeared the woman had given chase and was shot in the leg. A relying on it to defend her family from an
cause to fear for her life. “If a man fell police task force is investigating 13 other assailant the same night. Temesha
local bank robberies that may be linked to Greene was fearful of the increasing crime
through the ceiling right after you’re get-
rate in her community and had purchased
ting out of the shower—I’m told she had Blair. —The Sacramento Bee
the gun to protect her family. After learn-
just finished drying off—I think it’s reason- ing to shoot the gun at the range, she
able that you would be terrified,” he said. An Orem, Utah man nearly had his ticket went to a grocery store later that day with
punched when he attempted to rob a her boyfriend, and her two sons. Upon
—Las Vegas Review Journal
Greyhound bus station. The man handed returning home and while they were
the clerk at the station a note demanding unloading groceries from the car, Greene
James Carter became aware something money. The clerk, who has a CCW per- said a man got out of a van and
was not quite right when he noticed some- mit, drew a gun and held the would-be approached them in the driveway. Greene
one had damaged his front door. The robber at gunpoint until authorities arrived. and her boyfriend, Cedric Williams, asked
Augusta, GA homeowner told police he The suspect was charged with attempted the man who he was, but he did not
then heard a loud noise and that’s when robbery and public intoxication. —The respond. When Greene saw the man draw
he saw a man standing in his living room. Salt Lake Tribune a gun, she pulled her handgun and the
Carter aimed a .357 Mag. revolver at the two exchanged fire. Williams found cover
man and fired three shots, but the intruder In an odd turn of events, a Decatur, LA behind a tree and told the two boys to
escaped. Police investigating the break-in man shot an intruder and then adminis- duck down. Greene was not injured, but
recovered a gray jersey that may have tered first aid to the wounded suspect. managed to shoot the gunman later identi-
been left by the unwelcome visitor. —The Ronald Kirk was awakened just before fied as Emmitt Warren. —The Virginian-
dawn by an intruder. Kirk shot the would- Pilot
Augusta Chronicle
be burglar in the leg and dialed 9-1-1. The Reprinted w/permission of America’s 1st
A Bank robbery went awry when the sus- homeowner then applied pressure to the Freedom Magazine.
The
Back
Attack
By W. Hock Hochheim
corner of a building may break the Crashing the enemy into the sharp cor-
The enemy suddenly turns and runs! Your adrenaline erupts like a vol-
cano, and you are in the classic foot pursuit. If you’re a cop, you can bare-
ly report this on your portable radio between desperate breaths. If you’re a
soldier you might shout to your team. If you’re a citizen dedicated to stop-
ping a criminal, you probably are alone! Then...he turns back on you!
What’s in his hand now? Is that a set of keys? A gun? Do you draw and
shoot? Is he surrendering, or trying to kill you? He’s shooting back!
This is an all-to-common incident in the world of fighting crime and
terrorism. I have created this drill to enhance skills and promote vital,
simulated training experience. It must be run with simulated ammo and
appropriate safety gear. I prefer the battery-powered, so-called “electric guns,” because the pellet flies true with only a
slight sting. The runner needs a series of props in his pocket such as a pistol, a badge, keys, etc., to pull out.
1) Hock starts the run. Jeff “Rawhide” 2) Then Hock stops suddenly, turns... 3) ...and surrenders. Rawhide stops
Laun waits 5 seconds, then chases. and stands ready.
4) Rawhide initiates his arrest, 1) Another chase starts. 2) Hock turns on the run...
control and contain skills.