Posted: 7/8/2008 3:26:37 PM EDT
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InSights Training Center Presents: RECONDO School This course will encompass how to patrol, recon, ambush, and raid, and will involve individual and small unit tactics, leadership, planning, operations orders, warning orders, and rehearsals. One of the ultimate expressions of this was done during the Vietnam War and was know as MACV-RECONDO school . This school was set up by Project Delta (yes, the guys who later founded Delta Force) and then turned over to 5th SFG. This was the basis for LRRP/Ranger type operations in Vietnam. This course will be modeled after that school but with a modern backdrop and modern planning procedures. There will be instructors from the actual Vietnam Recondo school along with modern experienced Rangers and Special Forces personnel. Outside of the military nothing like this has ever been offered before. Others have done fantasy camps, no one has run the real deal. Most active duty infantrymen never get a chance for this level of training! This course will be a 24/7 immersion conducted out of a "fire-base" with large military tents and cots, in a training area of more than 800 acres. Food will be provided. The missions will go from very small unit recons, to two-element ambushes, to multi-element raids, with QRF or "hatchet force" operations as well. Basically, 5-6 man to full-class operations. All students will be involved in leadership and planning. This class is not just about tactics-the leadership and planning portions are as important as tactics, as is working as a team. Stress will be induced through the rapid pace: this is a learning tool for leadership and teamwork that cannot be overemphasized. The course will have plenty of live role players to include "civilians" and each patrol will have an observer/controller/lane-grader with them at all times. Every student will have a chance to work in every role on a team and all of it will be "graded". This is not a "yell at you and do pushups" course, this is a professionally run course for people that want to learn real skills. Come push yourself and find your limits and what you are still capable of at the ends of your limits. This class will be physical but anyone of reasonable fitness is encouraged to attend. Each mission will include a mile or two total of movement in the woods. The intent is not to "smoke" you with physical skills but to give you enough that you can learn the lessons. Also anyone that needs to take a mission off or suffers some minor injury that does not allow them to continue a patrol will be working in the company HQ helping do the intel fusion, company-level planning, and giving OPORDs to the teams, a learning experience in and of itself. All-in-all over 120 hours of training! Topics Include: The concept and history of LRRPs Individual movement techniques Small unit tactics/battle drills Duties of the individual LRRP team members How to call for artillery fire How to call for air support Combat aid and casevac Area reconnaissance Point reconnaissance Ambush Prisoner snatch Heavy team raid Company raid Combat search and destroy Combat search and rescue Quick Reaction Force operations And much more than can be listed here! Aug 23-31 Continuous from 12p Saturday until 12p Sunday of the following week so people can fly without taking extra days off. Eight full days of training! $2,200.00 USD EQUIPMENT Basic field gear. Detailed list issued at registration. http://www.insightstraining.com/us/view_course.asp?courseID=143&categoryID=4 |
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The class is coming together well, great facility, OPFOR, etc. here are bios of a few of the people that will be involved in teaching, we also look forward to a few more very experienced veterans as guest instructors and company support. Greg Hamilton has served as an US Army Ranger and currently serves as a Special Forces soldier. Among other qualifications Greg is a Master Parachutist, Freefall Jumpmaster, Scout Swimmer Instructor, Special Forces Mountain Leader, and a Terminal Attack Controller. Greg has served with the Army’s most elite Reconnaissance unit to exist post-Vietnam, the 75th Ranger Regiments, Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment. Greg has served operationally in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Iraq. J.W. is a former Army Ranger, having served over 4 years with 2nd Ranger Battalion during GWOT. He has served over 17 months in Iraq and Afghanistan conducting combat operations, starting as a fireteam member (M203 gunner and M249 gunner), and serving three tours as a team leader (both as a M240 and Carl Gustav AT team leader). JW earned the SGM Robert Spencer Leadership Award from Ranger School, is a Combat Lifesaver and a Combat Tracker. JW is an experienced instructor and leader and is currently in his last year of ROTC and will be returning to the military. B.C. started his military career as a Force Recon Marine. As a Force Reconnaissance Team member he attended U.S.M.C. Amphibious Reconnaissance School, U.S. Army Parachutists School, U.S. Navy Dive School, U.S. Army Ranger School, and earned his Marine Corps Gold Wings. BC recently served a tour in Afghanistan as an 18B, Special Forces Weapons Sergeant, conducting and leading reconnaissance and combat patrols on the Afghan/Pakistan border in support of GWOT. The USMC Force Reconnaissance Company’s are the U.S. military’s only unbroken chain of recon knowledge and people from Vietnam to the present day. J.R. stared his military career as an Infantryman in the 101st Airborne in 1968, attended Airborne School, and was the honor graduate of the original RECONDO School started be Gen Westmoreland at Ft Campbell, he then served with the 101 in Phu Bai Vietnam, after his service in Vietnam, he attended ROTC and graduated Ranger School while earning his commission, JR returned to service in Asia where he served for over six months until injured and evacuated back to the States. He resumed Jump status with the 172nd In Alaska, and then he was assigned to the newly formed 2nd Ranger Battalion at Ft Lewis in 1976 and served until 1977 were injuries forced him to leave, He was then the Training Officer for 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Divisions RECONDO School until it closure in 1977. JR medically retired shortly thereafter. His awards include Awards include EIB, CIB, ABN, Ranger Tab, BS, DSM, LoM, 7 surgeries, and 23 casts. |
