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Fresh off of our group training trip to Ben Franklin Range in Pennsylvania, I sit down with Blake Flannery of Orion Training Group and Maneuver Training Solutions, to talk about the work we did in the shoot house. Additionally, we dig into some of the concepts, as well as context, to structure clearance work and CQB in general. There's so much information and opinion floating around within the training community on this subject, it's hard to really grasp what can truly be called right and what really is wrong. To this end, we talked about some of the different and outdated systems and styles of CQB, the importance of initiative driven tactics, and make some parallel connections between infantry tactics, and structure clearance. This was a great opportunity to debrief after the trip, but also a fantastic discussion for those of you looking to lear ... 

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