Squadron Officer School - Cogito Yearbook (Montgomery, AL)

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af' 1 - .I , 'I 4 .lI..s.II.- III' PHYSICAL CONDITIONING AND COMPETITIVE SPORTS In the future, if a conflict should arise, we will need men who want to win - second place will not be good enough. This recent quote by the Commandant of Squad- ron Officer School, pretty well sums up the spirit of the school's physical conditioning and competetive sports program. From the outside it may appear slightly incredulous to view the long line of cars loaded with students making their way to the school's physical conditioning fields. ln- credulous also is the sight of approximately 800 Air Force officers, dressed in distinctive athletic gear, pushing themsleves with determination to tone lazy muscles, or to learn or relearn physical conditioning drills and athletic skills. But the value gained from the program can only by de- termined through close observation of the change in at- titude on the part of the maiority of its participants. Posi- tive changes in attitude come faster and are retained longer when a pride of successful accomplishment is gained through competing in, and successfully completing something tough, and the physical conditioning and sports program is tough. The entire student body is divided as equally as possible into 64 sections. The officers who make up the athletic teams are the same I2 or I3 officers who form the individual study sections or seminars in the academic curriculum area. ln this manner each small group learns to work as a team to solve the problems it will encounter in this as well as in other areas. Thus we may say that the purpose of the field activi- ties program is to increase understanding of how physical conditioning and competitive sports are related to leader- ship and the development of esprit de corps, high morale, and dicipline. The objective of the physical conditioning phase is for the students to understand the importance and techniques of the Air Force SBX ffive basic exercisesl program, and to develop individual physical abilities. For nine consecutive weeks of the I4 week course, Wednesday of each week is referred to as games day. The various games test each team's ability to put into effect the principles of physical development, leadership, teamwork, organization, and the game strategies that they have developed. To prepare themselves physically for the competitive athletic program the students are given only physical con- ditioning exercises during the first two weeks. The teams are then given one week to prepare for the first competi- me-sis. -' I I. I II II ,,f. II I I , - ,,.. .III.III.,.I.,III. , I I ,, p. IIIMIIMII, I V M X53 H I ' I IWII NI x IIIQQIIH I 'IIII ,I '1IIf' IIHIIIILY.-, II I,' I , M I' V 9' II sIfs2I.e2I.sf, Im IQVIIIIVI I IEE II MINI' II II II 'III' Il' -QMAI, ..,... iz III '-I 'II I' - II II S KEHW I 'swam J , I' I e Ii

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UNARMED COMBATIVE MEASURES TRAINING Teaching pilots and navigators hand-to-hand combat might seem as useless as teaching infantrymen how to pilot bombers. But this isn't the feeling at the Squadron Qfficer School, a i4-week professional education course for Air Force captains and lieutenants. An increasing amount of time in the curriculum is being devoted to the study of insurgency, the Communists' latest technique for gaining world domination. President Kennedy has stressed the need for forces trained to fight potential enemy guerrilla forces, and Squadron Officer School students are trained in the role of the Air Force in an operation of this nature. This is a role that could very well require a knowledge of hand-to- hand combat if crews find themselves in an area of guer- rilla fighting, or have to fly their planes from runways threatened by this form of warfare. Thus in May, 1962, the school, in recognition of the value of unarmed combative measures training lUCMTl in a practical war situation, as well as its values as a con- fidence builder, borrowed seven outstanding UCMT and iudo instructors from the Strategic Air Command. Master Sergeant Harvey Jones iShodonl of Stead Air Force Base, Nevada, and Technical Sergeant Charles Brown fNidanl of MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, headed the team which thoroughly trained the faculty of the Squadron Officer School. Since the faculty were already in excellent physical condition as a result of the schoolis physical conditioning program, they were able to take an intensive and accelerated 50-hour course in two weeks. They learned the basic movements, methods for falling properly, and the throws of iudo in the comprehensive unarmed com- bative measures program. Sergeant Brown, past coach and manager of the Armed Forces iudo team in the i962 na- tional competition, was specially successful in demon- strating one of his specialties, karate. The Squadron Officer School faculty then took over and began teaching the student body. Over 800 first lieu- tenants and captains come to the school three times a year and are taught certain of the basic movements and principles of judo, karate, and aichido as they apply to unarmed combative measures. Since excellent physical condition results from the school's field activities pro- gram, the students also are able to proceed quickly to the more difficult techniques, such as gun and knife defense and disarming. ln the lO-hour course, the students learn choking tech- niques and defenses, some karate techniques involving the use of the feet and hands, pistol and knife offense and defense, as well as the proper method of searching an opponent. The value of proper falling ways was realized quickly when the number of iniuries from accidental fall- ing in the competitive games dropped following this training. 1, ,, i, .