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FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, Mongolia -- A hand grabs an arm from behind, another arm slips past the assailant’s throat. The arm slams back, forcing him backwards.
"Where the head goes the body goes," said Sgt. Ronnie Wilson, an instructor with Special Operations Training Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, as he explained the move to members of the Mongolian Armed Forces and Internal Forces, June 24.
The above scenario is just one of five steps of Mechanical Advantage Control Holds SOTG instructors demonstrated for 120 Mongolian Armed Forces members during the Non-Lethal Weapons Executive Seminar 2010.
"MACH is not breaking a limb, it’s about moving your subject from one end to another," said Sgt. Ricardo Narvaez, a SOTG instructor. "Like if you want to get them into a chair, you can use a MACH to get them into that chair."
Many of the Mongolian troops participating in the seminar are 22-24 years old, brand-new and straight out of their Non-commissioned Officer Academy, said Capt. Batbayar, military police company commander, Military Police Company, 022nd unit, Mongolian army.
"So for us the training gives a lot of knowledge of new things," he said.
MACH holds are techniques that use the person’s momentum and leverage to control them or take them down as necessary, said Sgt. Tabitha Golden, a SOTG instructor during NOLES-10.
The first hold of MACH is getting the person to go backwards. To accomplish this you hold one of the person’s arms and push their face backwards by pressing an arm to the front of their throat, said Narvaez.
"By pressing their neck and their face back, their body is going to want to go backwards," he said.
MACH 2 is to moving the person forward; this is accomplished by pushing their arm forward as you twist that arm in a forward direction with your other hand.
"Where the arm goes, the body is going to want to go as well," said Narvaez. "The body doesn’t want anything to get broken so that’s why it goes with the limb."
The third technique is lifting the arm up towards the person’s head and pulling backwards, forcing him to walk backwards or risk breaking his arm.
The fourth is pulling his arm forward, with enough force that if he doesn’t walk forward his arm is going to be pulled out of his shoulder, said Narvaez.
The last technique is twisting the wrist and arm in a backwards motion, again forcing the person to move backwards.
In addition to observing five MACH techniques, the service members also learned different pressure points to use to get the subject away from them or up from the ground where they would then use the MACH holds.
| Date Taken: | 07.16.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 07.26.2010 22:04 |
| Story ID: | 53430 |
| Location: | FIVE HILLS TRAINING AREA, MONGOLIA, OKINAWA, JP |
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