July-August - Air Defense Artillery School

Not civil war-merely realistic training,
If You Don't Know---
You Get Killed
By Lieutenant Donald A. Carlson, Coast Artillery Corps
"If You Don't Knuw-You Get Killed,"
That's the training slogan for hundreds of officers and
enlisted men at the Camp I-Iaan, California, Antiaircraft
Artillery Training Center, who are mastering a new type
of judo fighting designed to take care of Jap jiu jitsu ;n
fast and deadly fashion.
Lieutenant 'Leslie F. Lawrence and a civilian instructor,
Hobert \,V, Seeger, started with judo, overhauled it and
applied it to modern, hand-to-hand "quick death" fighting.
They teach the Camp Haan antiaircrafter how to defend
himself against bayonet, bolo, machete, knife, the twohanded
sword or whatever the enemy uses. Barehanded
he can render the Jap or Nazi unconscious in three seconds
-kill him in fifteen!
Evidence of its originality and the immediate attention
it commands have been the repeated visits of national newsreel
cameramen, Associated Press photographers and the
hearty approval of r.lajor General Joseph A. Green of the
Antiaircraft Command.
r.lr. Seeger picked up many jiu jitsu tricks in Borneo,
and after the first 'Vorld 'Var began trying variations of
fighting with knives and bolos, machetes and bayonets.
Consequently when "'orld \Var II began and the need for
such instruction was imperative, Seeger decided to interest
the \Var Department in his method of hand-to-hand fighting,
The AAATC Command at Camp Haan decided to
try it.
By extensive research and practice Lawrence and Seeger
developed a new and "fool proof" method of teaching a
Judo bayonet drill. By applying the deft footwork and
agility of Judo, they have devised a bayonet drill the
average soldier trainee can master within twelve hours. The
entire Judo training period is but twenty hours.
Built on precision fighting, it differs from nomlal ba\
onet fighting in that at all times the soldier is in a position
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Only one dummy in this picture.
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