Oh yeah.
I think that clip it is on my SDMS stick page? Been awhile since I looked.
There were actually 300 MEU SOC Marines and they were phasing several sized groups in country and through this and other training. Pendleton cadre hired me to teach them impact weapons and riot control. Tom "The Arnold" Barnhart went with me and he filmed that clip segment. Maybe in 1999? 2000? Then 9-11 hit and all such training was over as the Marines soon went to war. I taught one more Marine unit, mostly close quarters handgun materials at 29 Palms in about 2003, but my old training schedule at Pendleton, Quantico and 29 Stumps disappeared with the wars.
That segment was right before lunch. I had about 15 minutes to kill and decided to do a massive Braveheart crash. On a whim. I put 150 Marines on one side of the football field, 150 on the other. I yelled attack and they charged each other and fought with the batons.
One gunny on the sidelines watched this 300 man dogfight mayhem and said,
"Fuck the rest of the training, let's let them do this all day."
Hock
(MEU SOC = Marine Expeditionary Unit, Special Operations Capable - for the great unwashed out there. Back then, if the SEALS or any SF unit could not be sent in on time in an emergency situation, and any MEU SOC were near? They were tasked with the operation - ergo the "Special Operations Capable" title.)
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