Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
I guess my point is that I can't think of a better alternative. Remember that a Soldier is training to fight in body armor, wearing all kinds of gear, possibly with weapons near at hand. A few basic "Holy crap don't kill me" moves is all you need unless you want to make a hobby out of unarmed combat.
We used to spend a little more time and teach people more practical hand-to-hand combat/survival skills. Our guys learned enough to be effective and trained in combat gear.
Certain troops need to know more than others, but even the least trained should know at least basic h2h survival skills. The BJJ/GJJ "Holy crap don't kill me" moves you were talking about are counter-productive and will get people killed.

Even if not against our current enemies, in larger wars h2h fighting always becomes more important, and neutering our military's h2h combat tradition will make it much harder and more costly to adapt when we are faced with larger conflicts.

The fact is that the Gracies lied about their system and convinced our military to base their combatives on it, even though they had to know it could lead to people dying. And all so they could make more $$$$.

The Gracies are just trash.