Urban Combat Survival CQB and Room Clearing. Urban Survival Part 2

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Published 2022-07-31
The Basics of Clearing a Room and CQB is both deceptively simple and grossly complex. This video won't make you an expert or even a beginner. This video serves as a primer for follow on training in room clearing and CQB. I hope you enjoy today's Part 2 of Urban Survival. Room Clearing.

00:00 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB
2:11 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - Orion Training Group
4:00 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - Assessing the Doorway
8:05 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - Two man team
11:15 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - footwork
14:38 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - Three man team
16:00 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - Weapon / Rifle Manipulation
18:30 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - Corner fed room
20:33 Basics of Room Clearing and CQB - Night time / white light

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All Comments (21)
  • @KealeyOnCars
    I don’t know much about room clearing or CQB but one time my gold fish committed suicide by jumping out of his fish bowl & we gave it a funeral by flushing it down the toilet.
  • COD CQB training:
    -Sprint in
    -Slide
    -Jump to cancel slide
    -180 that camper
  • @arcana5335
    As someone on the spectrum, I really appreciate homie going through it step by step.
  • @feral664
    I don't plan on clearing an unknown house, but if there are signs someone is in my own house, you better believe I'm going room by room. I think this is more useful than people realize
  • Several things to say.
    1: please please please keep this series going, both urban and wilderness
    2: if you think someone is behind a door that you want to cross, you can peek between the door and the frame without exposing yourself.
    3: everyone in this video rocks
  • My time in the Infantry taught me a few things. People have hesitated or froze in the doorway. Most people will never overcome this fear no matter how much they train. Don't forget to train your mind for battle, tactics are only a fraction of it.
  • When I was in Fallujah in 2005 our Company Commander told us that in a CQB environment that we are in we can expect a 80% casualty potential
  • For people new to this, the examples he gives to every day, mundane situations like "Doritos speed", are incredibly helpful.
  • @ballerrdj
    Something I love about Garand thumb is that he’s always wary about the word usage that’s being said and always stops to explain things for the sake of truly teaching us
  • @Mendrawza24
    The footwork about 5 minutes in is gold. In Japanese taijutsu, that kind of walking/footwork was taught to samurai and shinobi in order to navigate around corners without telegraphing their positions with their swords sticking out of the doorway. In other words, there's nothing new under the sun. Old ninja CQB used similar movement patterns as modern CQB. Really cool and useful stuff y'all!
  • @pl_8404
    Just became a 1st time dad 2 weeks ago and I gotta say, Micah's advice was really eye opening and hit home. I was doing exactly what he said he did with his first. I gotta just enjoy him as he is now as much as I can because he's gonna grow up in a blink of an eye. Thanks for the dad advice Micah ❤
  • @herpderp1662
    In guam we used to play "my military unit" against the local swat team, and the defender having knowledge about room clearing is actually a HUGE disadvantage for those clearing the room. They are predictable, they follow their training to a T, and do very specific things. For example the left right left right entry, where they stand outside the rooms, and how they move around the kill cone. We very often could take out their entire team by taking advantage of that. 9 times out of every 10 if the room defender knows how to clear a room, the team CLEARING the room are always at a disadvantage with one exception, element of surprise. Now if your engaging a bunch of untrained terry morons? Sure, they will be completely overwhelmed and supressed by those clearing the room. Ive taken every possible CQB course the military offered, and several in the civi world, pro tip, dont "go through the motions" like a robot. Because if your enemy also knows the tactics used by a CQB combatant you WILL lose. So we had to actually stop using tactics vs tactics in the games, because almost every time the defenders would win. But if we used the CQB tactics against teams that DONT know what to do, the attacking team would almost always win.
  • Straight up Master class. Some things in here you'll only find in years of experience, and one of the biggest drops of info in like the first 3 min. "a lot of problems can be solved from outside".

    Some things I want to add is working in an urban environment is hard. Way harder than rucking mountains. I know here they are slick, but you won't be. Depending on support, you may be doing this with a small sustainment load. If you have to go from house to house to house, sprinting across streets, covering every door window and alley... you're going to be exhausted and you'll feel your techniques slipping. Fight the urge to get sloppy.

    Next, mobility is king. Be light, those haligan tools, cook sets, sleeping systems are going to feel like anchors. If you're doing more than just one building, consider your loadout and bring mission essential items ONLY. Stage the rest. One of the nice things about cities is there is an abundance of scavengeable items.
  • @Rakadis
    The problem with combat in an urban environment is that everyone underestimates how dangerous it is. Unless you have training and have drilled the needed techniques for hundreds of hours you will make mistakes and it will cost lives. I experienced this time and time in Afghanistan when supporting ANA (afghan national army) troops in the south when clearing villages close to Kabul in 2003/2004...
  • The dad advice at the end was spot on and an amazing way to top off on what was already such a valuable video!
  • Uvalde showed us many things and reinforced many lessons - including that you can spend all the money on gear but if you don't have the training or the mindset, you won't matter when it matters.
  • @sober4687
    I'd love to see a video on CQB where you show the challenges of tackling stair ways, rooms with multiple door ways and generally more challenging buildings to clear.
  • @fallenangel9424
    In OIF/OEF we always used a surprise bang or Surprise grenade prior to clearing any room. We made entry and there where two RPK's focused on the door and it got messy really quick! I hate CQB but it is a necessity if you live in an urban environment. Thank you very much for taking the time to show this because so many people will hear a bump in the night and try and clear their house. If someone out there does clear their house make sure you know exactly where your family members are in that house and positively identify the threat before squeezing that trigger! Semper Fi!
  • @mth303
    I absolutely LOVE to see this type of content. For too long there has been a ridiculous aversion to teaching civilians how to fight. This information being disseminated to We the People, on such a massive platform, signals a shift in mindset... and that's fantastic. Keep up the GREAT work!