At the Army Combatives School in Fort Benning, soldiers confront their greatest fear: hand-to-hand combat. They learn to fight for survival, not sport. The skills taught here go beyond the UFC. These are the brutal, unforgiving skills that can kill.
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Combat Forces - First Ten Combat Miss...
In Vietnam, the USAF found 90% of pilot losses happened in their first 10 missions. To counter this, they created a specialized training program replicating those critical initial combat missions. The results were dramatic, drastically increasing survival rates.
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Combat Forces - Fighter Pilots
New pilots master air combat at a massive international exercise. We join multinational crews learning essential survival skills in the sky. The mission: understand the fundamentals of aerial dogfighting. We also get an inside look at the advanced technology powering today's cutting-edge fighter ...