The other day I was talking with a buddy of mine in the military. He is a high ranking officer I believe he is Menkyo in artillery and and a rokudan in missile tactics. Anyway he was telling about an assault on a Navy base that failed.
It appears that there was an initial assault by trained seals, they were to take out several ships with magnetic mines. This sandan ranked seal was really ticked. The problem was they had trained in a kata mining form only, when they went to attach the mines to the ships guess what? The ships (your not gonna believe this ) were actually "moving", they weren't sitting there waiting for the mining technique to be applied. So the seals couldn't apply correct mining technique. And the ships kept going...
Next thing you know the marines have to storm the beach. Almost all of them were trained in the Iai-m16-do and the Iai-45-do weapon drawing techniques. Once again a problem developed. It appears that once their weapons were actually drawn, several shot themselves with them, one cut his hand and everyone else didn't know how to use them... It seems that three of them (I think they were yondans and go dans) were really pissed at their instructors when they realized they didn't have a clue as to how to use the damn equipment once it was drawn. The godan was so pissed (having trained for 20 years in Iai 45-do), he drew his 45 in a perfect draw, to shoot his instructor for lying to him. It ended OK though. Naturally, he missed and shot his own foot.
Fortunately the other side had been trained in a philosophy based warrior art. When the marines stormed the beach and started shooting at them, they started twirling around and around and tripped on their hakamas and mostly all of them fell down in the sand.
At this point several of the Shihan ranked generals were disgusted they all sat down with both sides present and started yelling at the lower ranks for promoting iai people and mining theory people without the proper training. At this point a senior senior hanshi shihan guy that everyone loved cause of his white hair and beard just stood up and glared at everyone. He told them that the warrior arts were about loving each other and learning high moral standards by drawing the gun. He admonished them that they hadn't grown spiritually enough yet that they needed to draw the gun a few more times.
WHEW!!! At that point they all went back to shugyo and then drink beer. OH! my friend the high ranked guy ... He quit the military altogether. He is now the SOKE of his own military and is preparing for war.
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