Royal Military College Combat Weapons Team, An Open Letter

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Good Day,

The RMC Combat Weapons Team is seeking to include 2 members of the tactical shooting community in the Kingston and Ottawa areas. We are seeking highly experienced and qualified coaches to assist with the coaching and mentoring of young women and men in uniform.

The purpose of the Combat Weapons Team is to teach soldiers how to not just shoot but to fight with the Canadian Armed Forces’ service weapons. Members are taught basic to advanced fighting skills with the C8 FTHB carbine, Browning 9mm pistol, and Remington 12 gauge shotgun, and how to effectively coach other soldiers and sailors on these drills. The skills taught include various fighting stances, tactical reloading, weapon transitioning, and movement, and multiple target engagements.

The Combat Weapons Team is active in becoming involved in competitions that are held both within the Eastern Ontario area by civilian leagues, and competitions held internationally by the three United States Military Academies. The Team believes that these competitions are the best way to test what a soldier has learned, since they simulate the types of skills required in actual combat. Therefore, competing at a wide array of military-style competitions is an important part of the Team’s intent moving forward.

The CWT serves to benefit the Royal Military College’s image as a result of the professional training that it offers. Not only does it promote a higher standard of competence with weapons it also promotes the passing on of these skills. The Royal Military College is an institution that is designed to nurture and empower future leaders of the Canadian Armed Forces, and this overarching intent is matched by the Combat Weapons Team’s intent to coach and mentor not only members of the Team, but other members of the College as opportunities to do so present themselves.

Applicants should meet the following criteria:

a. Of strong character and able to pass a rudimentary police background check;
b. In possession of a valid PAL/RPAL;
c. Strong oral communication and teaching skills, bilingual preferred but not necessary;
d. Familiar with the functioning of AR pattern rifles and single action semi auto handguns;
c. Experienced in competition shooting and or tactical shooting;
e. Military or Law Enforcement experience is preferred;
f. Available on Tuesday and Thursday evenings in the Kingston area.

If you feel that you’re up to the challenge please send a current CV and an introductory paragraph to the following address:

Tom.Millar@RMC.ca

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~Stay low, shoot straight.
 
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Actually, it can as I'm one of them.

We're looking to expand contacts and add more people to our team in order to ensure that our people are receiving multiple viewpoints. For example, the West Point Weapons team has no military coaches, all civilian.
 
I am an instructor for a law enforcement agency and would like to apply. I'm near Kingston Ont. Sounds like most of the work will be in this area? Will each instructor be responsible for delivering material on all 3 of the platforms listed? Also, since I already instruct for employment, are you willing to work around a schedule? Let me know,

North
 
Sounds like you want someone who has the Small Arms Instructor qual code, but understands the principles are more important than the drills. Having the qual will be armour for your chain of command. Nothing like getting up on specific training.
 
Instinctive combat shooting (Point Shooting )
with a handgun can be taught to most shooters.
I believe Capt W.E Fairbairn and Capt E.A Sykes taught it first to Shanghai
police in 1930s . Improved police success in gunfights.
Only works at close range when most handgun fights happen
look up their book "Shooting to Live (with the one hand gun)"
I taught many police this skill when I was working
requires speed and accuracy at close ranges only
doesn't much involve sights, (maybe a Flash front sight )
more instinct but requires much practice.
wish I lived closer to Kinston id apply
 
I personally think shooting and tactical training should be independent of each other until the students are very good at shooting, if you are planning to have very good "operators", not just passable ones.

The best shooters come from the comp world. I would like to have the best comp shooting coach ( not shooter, good at shooting doesn't mean good at coaching ) just for teaching and coaching the shooting portion.

For the tactical technical part, that's when the other knowledges and experiences from other LE and different branches of mil should kick in.

In a nut shell, I personally will not prefer a lesser shooter to work as the "shooting coach" just because he or she has "mil/LE" background over a better shooter who only has pure comp experience. Vice Versa, I will prefer the " tactics" coach to have good knowledge and experience of tactics and operation, even though he or she may be less of a shooter than the other person who is a better shooter but less tactical knowledgeable.
 
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