The first time I sat through a two-week Combat Hunter Course I was pissed. Don’t get me wrong, I thought the material in the classes was incredible, but I couldn’t stop asking myself why I hadn’t been through the course before my deployments. In 2010, something along the lines of 60-70% of all Americans killed and wounded in Afghanistan was the result of IEDs. We are hearing from Marines returning from overseas, and in overwhelming numbers, about how those skills kept them alive – how it helped them find IEDs before they were detonated, or how it helped them find the people who put the IED in the ground. But still today, not every Marine gets taught how to do this. As I sat through that first course, I realized that this is absolutely unacceptable.
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The first time I sat through a two-week Combat Hunter Course I was pissed. Don’t get me wrong, I thought the material in the classes was incredible, but I couldn’t stop asking myself why I hadn’t been through the course before my deployments. In 2010, something along the lines of 60-70% of all Americans killed and wounded in Afghanistan was the result of IEDs. We are hearing from Marines returning from overseas, and in overwhelming numbers, about how those skills kept them alive – how it helped them find IEDs before they were detonated, or how it helped them find the people who put the IED in the ground. But still today, not every Marine gets taught how to do this. As I sat through that first course, I realized that this is absolutely unacceptable.