Just a heads up, Coach. TexAgs doesn't take too kindly to just social post or stories without a summary posted. They have been deleting those kind of threads this year. Also, some of us are stuck on work computers that can't load social sites, but we all want to play.
Here is Coach's comment from Instagram for everyone. Congratulations to the young men who put in the time to do things at an exceptional level.
"In a week of exceptional firsts for CCMU, here is another very exceptional one…
The team was at their annual training at The Mid-South Shooting Institute this week. Mid-South, in operation since the late 80's is a facility that only caters to US and allied national-asset direct action units. (The ones you may have heard of are Delta Force, Team Six, British SAS, etc…you get the idea.)
The list is long, but very, very exclusive. Most of the teams there specialize in hostage rescue, which is to say close quarters shooting that MUST be fast and accurate. When there is no margin for error, you simply cannot make one.
Mid-South has a standard test known as Operator Standards. Think a shooting qualification, all timed, all requiring accuracy as well as speed. Fail to make time…Fail. Fail to get the hit…Fail. There is a portion involving multiple runs on steel plates, the rest are things like shots from the holster, shots from different rifle positions and it ends on a Check Drill (you can google it…its rifle/pistol and a reload. Not easy. At all.)
All units taking a course at Mid-South fire the Operator Standards for score. Let me repeat that…All Units.
Last year M-S created a board to which they add the unit name of every unit that scores 95% or better on the Operator Standards. Before this week there was exactly…one unit listed on that board. Now…there are two! 96% on Operator Standards for CCMU!
I can't wait to see what next week brings!
The second pic is a standard at Mid-South…every unit signs and decorates an ammunition box lid. It's hung up on the wall on site. I really wish I could show you the units that have theirs next to ours!"
ETA: Coach, can you at least tell us the country of the only other team up on the wall with yall?