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– TV screen, The TBS’s News23, 6th August 2007.

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Combatives expert passes skills onto 6-52 ADA Soldiers


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6-52 Air Defense Artillery

SUWON AIR BASE — Sergeant 1st Class Eric Roberts places his chest and arms firmly onto his opponent, applying pressure and spinning clockwise.
Roberts reminds students standing around him, “The key to this drill is to pin down your opponent with the maximum amount of force as you transition to a more advantageous position to defeat him.”
He warned his students that “if you release even a bit of pressure, your opponent will exploit your weakness to escape or, even worse, overtake you.”
Roberts was instructing his students as part of a monthly Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) held by the 6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery.
“Now everyone partner up, and start spinning,” Roberts told his students.
The Soldiers who graduate will become Army Combatives Level-I certified.
Roberts, who had been a senior instructor in the Army Combatives Program at Fort Bliss, Texas, for over three years before coming to Korea, carried with him a revolutionary concept in the training and execution of his unit’s MACP.
“What we are doing here is teaching the Soldiers what we called battlefield combatives back at Fort Bliss,” he said. “The concept was first devised by Eric Howard, a retired Special Forces lieutenant colonel and the current director of the Fort Bliss MACP.”
According to Roberts, Battlefield Combatives is a “Combatives training modular driven by real-world scenarios during which Soldiers could find him or herself involved in hand-to-hand combat with an enemy while on the ground or standing up.”
The objective for the fight, Roberts continued, “is to start the fight with the intent to kill utilizing all combatives technique in your arsenal … and the more you know the higher chance of your survivability. “Many people refrain from teaching advanced techniques in the level one course, but I like to do the exact opposite. I teach my students how to kick, punch, box, and use advanced judo or jujitsu submission techniques. After all, most of these Soldiers will be deployed downrange before they will attend advanced combatives training.”
Private First Class Jorge Delgado, a course student, seemed to really enjoy the training.
The medic, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 6-52 Air Defense Artillery, said, “I went through combatives training at Basic and Advanced Individual Training, but what separates this course from others is that it is more realistic and teaches us advanced techniques that could save our lives if we were involved in a life-threatening, hand-to hand-combat situation in the near future.”
One of the scenarios taught in Robert’s class was how to defeat an armed opponent. Students watched in awe as the instructors demonstrated the proper way to engage, block, disarm, and then finally take down the assailant.
“We course instructors strive to teach our students as many techniques as possible, in addition to the standard combatives level one drills,” Roberts explained. “In fact, we want to force our students to understand not only the how, but also the why, behind the drills.”
The purpose of the spinning drill, for example, is to teach Soldiers how to pin down enemies and prevent them from escaping while buying more time to execute the finishing technique.
Roberts became familiar with modern Army combatives in 1993 while deployed to Southwest Asia.
“At the time, I was looking for a new way to instill warrior spirit into my Soldiers,” Roberts recalled. “I thought to myself that we spent billions of dollars on enhancing the Soldier’s equipment but we spent significantly less in building the mental and physical toughness of its operators.”
Roberts immediately recognized the program’s potential. He went on to win the Fort Bliss Heavyweight Combatives Championship for three straight years, became the guest combatives instructor for 7th Special Forces Group, and served as senior instructor at the Relson Gracie Jujitsu School in El Paso, Texas.
“The only way you can build the fighting spirit in Soldiers is to take away their weapons, gears, and other protections, and force them to fight only with their body, intelligence, and heart,” Roberts said, “I think the students understand they are the real weapon, while everything else are merely tools to enhance their lethality.”

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