A Real World Reminder Why Citizens Should Never Give Up Their Semi-Auto Rifles

December 18, 2022 by The Tactical Hermit in 2A News, Government Gangsters, Gun Laws, Gun Rights, Historical Study, History of Weapons, History Remembered, History Roundup, Homemade Weapons, Military Weapons History, Militias, Rifle Corner, Second Amendment Issues, Tales from the Battlefield, Warfare, Weapons & Ammo, World News and tagged 2A News, Gun Rights, Homemade Firearms, Impro Guns, Improvised Weapons, Militia, Myanmar Insurgency, Remembering the 2A, Rifle Corner, Second Amendment Issues, Semi-Auto Rifles, Tales from the Battlefield, World News

Myanmar Rebels Battle Government Junta Forces with Homemade Shotguns

The Video in the link above shows Myanmar Rebels armed with home made single shot shotguns fighting Govt. Military Forces armed with modern assault rifles.

The article does not say but I can almost promise you this fight did not end well for the rebels.

Going up against modern military rifles with single shot homemade shotguns from a fixed (entrenched) position is tactical suicide IMO but on the other hand I understand the rebels are desperate and do not have access to large quantities of military type rifles.

The rebels would have stood a better chance using molotov cocktails!

It’s both a Reminder as to why the Second Amendment Exist: So citizens can protect themselves from Government tyranny and an object lesson that we should NEVER willingly give up our guns, more especially our semi-automatic rifles!

Stay Armed and Prepare Accordingly.

Squad Organization

December 6, 2022 by The Tactical Hermit in Another Reason to Be Armed, Armed Citizen Corner, Asymmetrical Warfare, Citizen Action Groups, Civilian Operator 101, Guerilla Warfare, Military Manuals, Self-Defense Issues, Small Unit Tactics, Tactics and tagged Armed Citizen Corner, Asymmetrical Warfare, Citizen Action Groups, Civilian Operator 101, Guerilla Warfare, Military Manuals, Militia, Small Unit Tactics, Squad Organization, Tactics

Von Steuben Training & Consulting

One of my biggest goals for the classes that I teach and the articles that I write is to get patriotic Americans in the mindset of working with others in a team. A key element of this is learning how to task-organize a group into an effective squad, which is something I cover in the Team Leader Class. In this article I will discuss considerations for organizing a squad of volunteers, list some common billets for specialized roles and duties, and present my proposed “Jäger Squad” model for the modern American Minuteman.

Cognitive Load Theory (How Many Men can a Squad Leader Control?)

Our brains are like computers. A computer has a limited amount of processing power and can only handle so many tasks at once. If you overburden a computer with too many tasks, it will slow down considerably and do none of the tasks efficiently (or…

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