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  • Aren't police given unarmed "combatives" training, and supposedly paid to take a few risks?

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • He took additional courses in Israeli hand-to-hand combatives and the Russian martial art known as Systema.

    Foreign Influence Brad Thor 2010

  • For evenings there was another hour of combatives.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • For evenings there was another hour of combatives.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Ranger units maintain a high state of physical fitness and often train in close quarters combatives.

    FM 7-85 Chapter 1 Introduction United States Army 1987

  • All depths of passion are stirred, and all combatives fire, down to their deep foundations.

    Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Paras. 100-125 1909

  • The intent of close quarters combat was for silent killing by covert forces, personal combatives by elite forces, and torture methodologies by interrogative forces.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks lovelylovely 2010

  • Everyone would believe that they knew, or even trained in, the Soviet combatives system; even the natives would be convinced by this official version of SAMBO.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks lovelylovely 2010

  • In addition to this, the field combatives taught to the Soviet military were labeled as SAMBO.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks lovelylovely 2010

  • Each of these individuals were assigned the vocation of combatives investigators and sent to travel to various countries to study the endemic, native combatives.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks lovelylovely 2010

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