PMCI - May 2021

their conference facilities where they welcome various regional and
international guests and allow them to try their hand in situ!
G&G recognise that changes in the way we live today, along
with advances in weapon technologies, mean that modern ground
encounters gradually progress from traditional field combat to urban
warfare, where there is more focus on faster reaction times, shorter
engagement ranges and rapid action in close quarter settings. They
also understand that tension and pressure in a current-day scenario
is far higher, and that this needs to be mitigated.
Corresponding to new combat situations, building a traditional
live-fire, or even simunitions, training facility will cost a huge amount
and place numerous challenges such as environmental protection,
loud noises, and even user-error on the staff. Also weapon control
procedures, security risks and personnel management create
challenges that make effective training more difficult to keep up
with when it’s all “live”.
G&G found that the Taiwanese National Defense units faced all
these challenges in training, so they learned from the West Point
Academy and the Swiss Police Department that using a “6MM”
option for some training could be safer but still efficacious. Their
advanced program can fully use any and all available space in any
facility and substantially lowers the training cost. “Airsoft” training
has now been proven to have beneficial result on improving muscle
memory, personal adherence to mission, combat process, entry
drills for room clearing and response to crisis.
Many Military Training Centres in Taiwan have now adopted
G&G Armament airsoft training platforms and their electronic
target system. Cadets must be trained with an airsoft platform for
a certain amount of hours before live round training commences,
and this advanced training program increases the training pattern
and lowers the security risk. Training facilities can be rearranged
or changed dependant on the purpose of the training or mission,
and this program improves Close Quarter combat skills and reaction
under pressure. Because of the durability, simulation capability and
high product quality, the cost for military training has been lowered
without any sacrifice in eventual performance.
Approved by military and law enforcement from many other
countries and field tested by the Taiwanese Army, and they
welcome all training facilities and organizations to contract them
for more information and let us help you build a more effective and
inexpensive training system.
FINAL THOUGHTS
So, by using G&G’s obvious success, not just in the business world,
but also in driving forward advancement in safe training processes,
it’s pretty clear to me that “6MM Training”, or airsoft, or whatever
clever name you might wish to use for essentially what is the same
thing, is with us to stay!
Trampas has illustrated in this very issue that with the current
ammunition situation we all need to be smart to keep our personal
training tempos up to speed, and coming from a country where I
can’t own a semi-auto rifle over .22 or a live-fire handgun in any
meaningful form, “6MM” is where it’s at for me a lot of the time
until I travel overseas.
Yes, I know after a lifetime of shooting the real thing that a
“BB Gun” ain’t gonna give me everything I need when it comes
to my personal shooting skills, but it will certainly help me in that
direction. Frankly, if it’s good enough for military and police units to
train with, then it’s certainly good enough for me!
With ongoing licencing arrangements with some well-known
firearms manufacturers and new developments in G&G’s own gas
MGCR “training rifle” technology on the table in addition to the
work they’ve already done with their growing range of handgun
models, sometimes it’s as easy as winding in our own egos and
accepting that something simple, safe, and relatively
cheap is going to actually prove beneficial. Thankfully
companies like G&G are there to help us when that
realisation finally dawns!
My sincere thanks go to my good friends in Taiwan,
Stu Mortimer for the insight, and Rick at G&G Armament
(www.guay2.com) for all their kind help in creating this
article.
TRAINING: 6MM
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