Originally Posted by Switch

Well right at the moment I am in a reserve unit stationed out of Evanston Wy. But I am trying to get tranfered to one in Ft Collins. As far as active time Ft. Hood-Ft Stewart-Ft Hood.
I am not certified but I have several friends who are that I train with (or use to they all graduated from college last semester and my whole training team dissapaited). So I know about the levels and everything. I just disagree with alot of the stuff they are taught.
One example I will give you since you mentioned body position. You are in a full mount. The next move is you pop up (rise to your feet with a foot on both sides of the body) then slide off to your dominate side while pulling your opponents arm to full extension. Ending in an arm bar.
Why I don't like this: When you get to your feet it is instictive for your opponent to raise both knees up between your legs. From here they can a) rack the hell out of you b)sweep you c) if they simply stand up they can easily place you in to a full mount as you go to your back.
As far as Marines they teach some dumb stuff to but in general what I saw while I got to train with them was more battle focused rather then containment. I also like that they put the system into their regular pt program. If you ever see a marine without their uniform blouse on note the color of there belt. It tells you where they are at in their combat system. I don't know all the colors but it begins at white and ends at red, then their instructors get black slashes at the end of there belt to denote their rank.