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History:
The US Army Combatives School was
founded in 2000 by then Sergeant First Class Matt Larsen
and is located at building 69, Fort Benning, Georgia.
After years of developing the elite 75th
Ranger Regiment's hand to hand program, Larsen was assigned to the
Ranger Training Brigade, the Combatives proponency at the time, to
rewrite the Field Manual FM 21-150. Upon finishing this, it was
published in 2002 as FM 3-25.150 (Combatives), he was asked by the 11th
Infantry Regiment (a TRADOC unit) to develop a training course for their
cadre. Proponency for Combatives doctrine was transferred to the 11th
Regiment to follow SFC Larsen. An old, disused warehouse in Fort Benning,
Georgia became the site of the school. Soon, units from around the Army
were sending Soldiers to this course. Over the next several years the
program was developed around the idea of building virtually self
sustaining Combatives programs within units by training indigenous
instructor cadre. With the continued success of this approach, the
school became the recognized source of instruction for the entire US
Army.
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