Hallways & Intersections | Pro's Guide to Team CQB

[Music] [Applause] Welcome to episode 4 of the Pro's Guide to Team CQB. In this episode, we'll cover hallways and intersections in great detail.

Hallways, like I said in the last episode, are probably the most dangerous place to be in a CQB environment. Why? Because it's a choke point; it's a narrow path with nowhere else to go. And we all know that bullets love to travel down walls; they ricochet. You're pretty much a bullet sponge the longer you stay in the hallway. So a hallway is a part of the structure that we need to address, but it's also where we want to emphasize a little bit of speed and not take our time. Hallways can lead us to doors—the doors that are closed and open doorways—and we'll talk about how to take open doors and closed doors out of a hallway and also exiting into a hallway from one of those rooms. But then we'll go into intersections, and we'll talk about everything from a dog leg, which is a hard 90-90° turn to the left or right, a T-section, and then all the way up to a four-way intersection and how to negotiate that with just four assaulters.

When traveling down hallways, we need to assume hallway posture. All this simply means is that we have an equal number of men or assaulters on both sides of the hallway. Even if it's four guys, you'll have two and two, with the lead men on each side kind of using cross coverage so that he can have the best view of the doors and whatever else is coming up on his side of the hallway. And then this guy can have the best view of the opposite side for those open and closed doors and other dog legs that may pop up. So they have cross coverage, with the number two men behind them basically acting as number two men. And if there is an open door or a closed door that gets called out on approach, where the number two man now gives that squeeze and release en route, and the number one man can go ahead and take that room without having to stop or stack on the doorway.

When it comes to a dog leg left or a dog leg right, we simply just treat it like a corner-fed room; it becomes very easy that way, and we have continuity. When it comes to T-sections, that comes down to the cell leader, if there is one present; he's going to make that directional call. Same thing with four-way intersections. While maintaining security the entire time, we still have to maintain the direction of travel and still be able to have guns in those directions that we are not traveling, also taking mental notes of what we see down those hallways in case we need to go back down there, but also for situational awareness.

When it comes to hallways themselves again, knowing that this hallway is a choke point, we may speed up our speed of movement and footwork, as long as we get to that next door. We won't take our time there with how we make entry, especially if it's an open door; we basically just make entry on approach. If it's a closed door, it's a momentary pause with a lot of security and the directions that we need to pull security in with. Now the breacher comes up, and then as soon as that door gets breached, we make entry that way. All right, hallways. So I had previously mentioned that hallways are the least favorable position and probably the most dangerous place in a structure to be—a natural choke point. We can't go anywhere else; we can't duck in anywhere. If we do start getting shot at, security has to be very switched on at this point. That's why we have traditional kind of split stack in this case, and both of these men are not just watching the front, but they're also kind of pulling cross coverage because he has the best angle of this side, and he has the best angle of this side. So that's why they're calling out closed doors, open doors, anything else they see; they're calling those out also as they're scanning back from the 12 to whichever side that their respectable side is. Meanwhile, three and four men, we're just following in trace; we're listening to what they're giving us, and we're basically just getting ready to—for example, if they call out an open door to the left, then I'm getting ready to give Damon a squeeze and release en route so that we don't have to make a stop at the door. In this case, we have two closed doors, so we would have to make a quick little stop, and that's why, again, security is very paramount in a hallway. But if we can, we want to avoid being in a hallway for longer than we need to, and that's why we come up with a rolling squeeze or how we come up with a quick kind of closed-door entry. In this case, we're going to leave the doors alone in a hallway. If you do see a closed door, we always bypass closed doors; we address open doors first. We annotate closed doors that way we can come back to them later, but open doors take priority over closed doors in all CQB scenarios.

For this particular run, we're just going to do a split stack, cross coverage. Myself and the four man here will be in trace, and we're just going to move down this hallway. However, we're going to move with a little more emphasis in our footwork, a little more speed of pace. We want to get out of this hallway, so let's go all the way to the end. Okay, move right. Notice that we're still pretty close to the person in front of us; we don't want to create a slinky effect. Go ahead, index. We don't want to create a slinky effect when we're traveling because, again, there could be an open door that comes up very quickly. I give him a squeeze and release; he's already in front of me, and now I'm that half-second late getting in the door behind him, causing him to get shot because I couldn't get in there in time. So we have to be switched on in that case as well. Guys, keep that stack or keep that space between your fellow assaulter and you minimal. Without—no, there were no doors in this case, but—so the other method of travel here is, in this case, when your hallway is a wider dimension like this or even wider, then we could possibly get a few more guns to the front. And again, because we're going in this direction, the most firepower would make sense. So in this case, I'm going to get right next to Damon. Damon has cross coverage; I am pulling 12. Johnny's right in here with us; he's also pulling 12. In this case, we're pulling long; the middle two guys are pulling long; the outer two guys are kind of getting that cross coverage and giving call-outs. Okay, let's move and index. So both of those are viable options, but again, it's going to come down to the dimensions of your hallway. Some hallways are very narrow, like inside of a house, or you can find yourself in a mall where from one side of the hallway to the other could be a good 30 ft. The principles don't change; it's just now that we need to utilize a little more cover because we're in a more open space, whereas here we're a little more narrow. And so in this—this hallway is really just perfect for four people, um, so I would travel this hallway with the four of us looking just like this, just all online. But again, the traditional split stack is probably the most popular method used here. Now if we have doors to our left and right, in this case we do, as soon as we start moving, I need these two people to start calling those out. And again, again, closed doors are not a priority; we're looking for open doors for the time being. But if we—again, we're calling out everything that we see at this point. Okay, move. Close right, close left, T-section. Okay, so we had a closed door left and a closed door right, and now we—somebody called a T-section right, and so we're getting—these are the type of information that's only—that's going to be useful in the hallway; it really doesn't matter what else you see. So what kind of door do we have to the left? He said—said closed door. Notice his—notice his verbiage; he said he didn't say door to the left; he said closed door to the left, open door to the right if it was open. Okay, so we need to—we need to be clear and concise with these things that we're calling out. T-section. Okay, we're coming up on a T-section; a directional call hasn't been made yet on the intersection; we'll get into that in—in the later portion of the episode, but for now, at a T-section, we could go either left or right at the top of the T. Okay, so let's do that.

Once again, now we're going to open the door. Since I said that open doors take priority over closed doors, now that we see an open door, we need to understand, well, how do we go into a room from a hallway? Okay, so we're going to do this by the numbers, so let's get up to that room. Move. Open door left. Okay, open door left, closed door right. So the open door becomes priority now. At this point, I can go ahead and give Damon a squeeze and release en route, and he can just make entry. But for the sake of the video, we're going to do this by the numbers. So Damon is going to kind of creep up on this door. Now as Damon is now focused on this door, John doesn't give up—doesn't give up his security; he just steps forward, and now he's—without passing—without passing Damon, he steps forward, and he pulls security here. When Damon does get the squeeze and release, in this case from me, he's going to go inside the room; I'm going to follow, but at the same time he's going inside the room, the number one man on this side is going to push to that near side and continue to pull for security. Make sense? And then you are going to be the last man in there, so you're going to pick him up en route inside the room. So it'll look something like this—a nice slow version. He—we'll forget about these open doors here; we'll say they're out of play. So—so pretend I'm—I'm there. So go ahead and come up to the door. Okay, so again, now we could have mitigated all of this if our SOP was, Kawa, squeeze and release en route to the door. Cool. Then we would have flowed right into this, and we'll show you what that looks like here in a second. However, for this, we're going to create a static—we're going to create a static situation here where we actually have held up in this hallway, and now we're waiting for that squeeze and release. Now as—let's say Johnny's the number two man—as Johnny gives Damon the squeeze and release, release. Damon, step center for me, but don't move. Okay. Now John, as he steps center, you're also going to start advancing. Okay, so Damon, go ahead and proceed, and then John, you're going to come right here against this wall. Good. Pull long. Last, I'll pick him up. So I'll be the last man, and then we pick up our far-side security and we come into the room. He'll be the last man. The way that works is security is paramount, right? So as Damon is making entry into the room, the guy from the opposite side of the—of the hallway is maintaining security, but he's doing it by protecting everybody at this angle. Why is he protecting everybody from this angle? Why doesn't he just stay here? Because he's seen this side of the hallway; he's seen all this; he's like, yep, I got this. But what I can't do as these guys are going into the room, I can't protect them from this. Make sense? That's why he has to come to the near side as well. Whoever is making entry here, if I'm the—the far-side guy, then I am—just as you're making entry, Johnny, I am pulling here, and now I got security to this side, and they're coming in—coming in, and I get that last man by whoever the last man is. Okay, make sense? So let's do it again, um, kind of by the numbers. We'll go—we'll—we'll do the static method. Okay, so here I am again. We're not—this is not—I know we're prolonging this for training, but even if we use the static method, it's not long; we're here for maybe 2 seconds longer than we want to be. Okay, so it's going to be here. Squeeze and release. Good, and we all get to POD. Well done. And at that point, we're going to priorities of work. But the way we came into this hallway is we never gave up security to the—to the front, did we? We always had at least one gun pulling security to that unknown; we gave up our rear security so that we can make entry, and then obviously we pick him up because he needs to provide security for everybody that comes in, and then himself peels into the room at that point. Okay. The way that goes down is one method; however, there is another method of doing this if it's near side. Okay, so the other method of doing this is if the near-side guy now takes that far side, and that'll look like this. So as Damon is stacked on this door, go ahead and stack Damon like you were. And so instead of you going long this time, I can go long. So give him a squeeze and release; that means you're going to be number two man and number three man in, and you're going to pick me up; I'll be last man. Okay, so I give him a squeeze and release; he goes. Okay. And so what I did in this case is as he—as I gave him the squeeze and release, he came into the room; I picked up long. The only problem with that is there's one extra step of coordination that needs to happen between you, number two man, and me, 'cause I'm squeezing, and you need to see that, right? 'Cause when I squeeze, he's going; you need to be right—be right behind him so that's the extra step of coordination is that my squeeze and release needs to be coordinated with him because now he's two man, right? But if I was a two man like in the prior method, then—then I don't need to coordinate with anybody, right? I'm—I'm going in with you, and you're pulling long. In this case, I showed you the other method; near side went long. In this case, let's do that again; we'll go near side going long again, and then we'll do this. Once we do this one, we'll go to doing all this on the move. So again, we're at this little spot for about 2 seconds. I give him a squeeze and release; he makes entry. John, you got to get in there; I pull long. Johnny gives me last man, and I come in here myself, and I went too far, sorry, and I get to POD; we're all at POD at this point. Cool. And then we get into the priorities of work as long as we have security to whatever direction we're moving in—security first, then priorities of work. So for this one, we're going to go right back to far side goes long. Okay, and we'll do it on the move. So I'm going to give him the squeeze and release on the move. So all this is going to be very fluid; it doesn't mean it's going to be fast; it just means that we're going to do all these steps consecutively. All right, here we go. Move. Take it. Open door. Okay, index. Move. Open. Take the open door. Index. Good. Good job, guys. All right. Now let's do a rolling near-side security or near side—far—near side long. Okay, let's do the second method—near side long—long security on the move. Open left, take it. Okay, index. Okay, let's do that one more time. This all comes down to SOP though, right? It's like each team will have a preferred method, although they know both methods; they usually have a preferred method, and usually the most popular method is long or far side takes long security, 'cause there is no like waiting for me to pass. However, this is also a viable option and works. Okay, here we go. Move. Open. Take the open door. Index. Let's just say that the cell leader says we're going to take the white door, so we'll call it out like normal. Everything else is normal. When it comes to closed doors in a hallway, we're looking for a couple things; we're looking for hinges. If I can see hinges, that means that this is an open door, right? Or a pull door is what we say, and if I don't see hinges, that means it's a push door; I can just push this door open. So hinges is something we look at immediately, and even if we're not taking this door down as we're passing this door, again, we're taking that quick mental snapshot that says, yep, this is a push door or it's a pull door. Okay, so when we come back to it, we know what breaching meth—what breaching technique or tool or method to use on this door immediately, and that's another way to mitigate us being out here for longer because we did that assessment en route. Does that make sense? But now that we've assessed that this is a push door, John's going to come up on this push door and be number one man security just like he was. In fact, I'll take myself out of a stack really quick. Okay, so you guys come on up, and then you're going to pull security on it, John, but you're going to pull security on it in a way where you're about to step center and make entry. Okay, so there you go, and then get a little more like purposeful. There you go. Good. Thank you. So he's right here, so he is the local security. Now who becomes the breacher at this point can be any one of these guys, but again, we need to have security here. So as—as John—excuse me—as the number one man here pulls security, the far side comes and goes here. Johnny, you're—sorry—you're going to go—you're going to go here, right on—you're going to push forward, and then I'm coming up as number four man, and I will be the breacher at this point. So now we have firepower to the unknown, cross coverage to the unknown, we have local security to this door; we've given up our rear, but we already said that's low on the totem pole for—for priorities. But now I become the breacher. If I need to move Damon slightly out of the way, I'll give him a little nudge, and now at this point, I give a coordination with Johnny and whoever is behind; if we have more people in the stack, I give a quick little look. In this case, we just have four of us, so I'm giving that coordination with you because as soon as this door opens, you're going to be number two man in; I'll be number three man. Okay, but I have to pick Damon up before I can go in. What I forgot to mention is because there's no one here to give him a squeeze and release, basically when this door flies open, that is your squeeze and release; that's me saying to you, the door is open, go, and ready; I'm with you, right? Okay, so let's get back into that. [Applause] Okay, good. Index there. Okay, so we just—I just showed you where John became local security 'cause he was the one man. Okay, now I'm going to show you another method where John is now pulling—pushing past the door to pick up long security. Johnny is now local security on the door here. Okay, so John, you're going to push forward on this run. Johnny, you're going to come to the door. Damon, you're also going to push—basically just in line with John. Yep. So let's see that. So do the call-outs as well, right? Okay, so now if I was the four man here coming in, I'm going to come on to the other side of Johnny. D, number two, go with them. Come back. Come back. Come back. Way too slow; it needs to be fast, 'cause that's why I looked at you. Okay, yeah, 'cause I said you're the two man, so this door opens; that's his squeeze and release to go, and you just need to go when he goes and close that gap as much as you can, and I'll pick up John and meet you guys. Okay, here we go. Last man. Okay, good. That was much better. Good job there, Johnny. Okay, so let's do one more time. We're going to stay with uh near side pulling long, and then for the last couple, we'll go far side pulling long like we originally did. Okay, so we'll just…

Stay with near side, so back up a little bit for me, and and and approach. Come into this door on approach. Close right, close left, take close right. Okay, nice. So now we got our security to the the unknown here. Johnny has local security; I was the foran, so here I am coming into my my place. I come right around Johnny, cuz I already know what Johnny's doing; he's Point Security, so that makes me breacher. I just have to coordinate now with Johnny.

Damon, open last man. Once I pick up my last man, we're right in here with you that quickly. Okay, again, we don't know what's in this room; we want to get in here and support you guys. All right, so little bit of coordination there, but again, viable option. Now let's go back to where the far side pulls long, so Damon in this case cross as he's positioning himself on the door. You're going to cross over. Yep. Mhm. Close door left, close door on the right. Okay, good. You saw how everybody the chest pieces moved here. John went straight to the door for local security. Dam came over and started pulling, started compensating for John, pulled this side, and then obviously Johnny came up as a as a three-man to get Cross coverage, and you could probably take a couple more steps there, Johnny.

Now, as I'm coming up again as a fourman, number fourman, I'm right here. I see what's going on; I acknowledge all this, and I know that this point I'm the breacher last man. Okay, index. So as far as closed door goes, you see there's just a little bit of coordination regardless of whether near side pulls long or Far Side PS long; the chest pieces still move almost in sync. Okay, everything's synchronized there; the timing has to be important and the coordination there upon me getting to that breach point also has to be important. Okay, and if it was like if if I'm only coordinating with Johnny because we don't have more people there, if we had more people there, I'm coordinating with them, not him; he's going to stay long. If we had more assaulters, I'd be like looking at those guys. Yep, and then opening the door for them. This is just this is just a breaching technique; is me just going for the doorknob. Obviously, if we're there's a ton of mechanical breaching techniques, explosive breaching techniques; we're just showing you in the civilian world what we have to work with, and that's really just our hands. Okay, so if you have tools, then that's great; if not, we always check doorknob first anyway to see if we can just open the door, so that's very basic level breaching right there, but that is how we address the closed door in the hallway; they become second priority on the totem pole of doors, open doors being priority, but this is how we address; there is no rolling closed door method here. Okay. All right. All right, guys.

So we're going to about we're about to get into intersections now. When we get into intersections, there's a few things that we need to think about: how much Manpower we have; we almost kind of dictate what method we use to negotiate this intersection depending on what the leadership call is. He could say, you know, going left, holding left or going right or whatever it is. In this case, we're going to start with a dog leg. A dog leg is also defined as a hard 90° turn. Um, so since we have kind of this intersection set up, we'll just pretend these two walls are out of play, so we are coming down this hallway, and we have this hard right turn or this dog leg right. So as we're coming up, you two, number one man on both sides, the number one on both sides will get that cross coverage. You guys see that you're coming onto some kind of opening here, but if you look at it from just an opening, what does it look like? We're traveling down this way, and we have this opening; you can see a wall right. What does it look like room-wise? Looks like a corner fed. So if we think Corner fed in mind, if we keep Corner fed in mind, then negotiating this becomes very easy. Okay, so as you guys come onto this intersection, you have the best look this way, so go ahead and get that Cross coverage, both of you. You're not you have nowhere to look really, so you'll kind of recess a little bit because then there's nothing here to see, correct? Now Damon has the best view. What does Damon see? He can see all all down this wall all the way back to that back wall, so he has a pretty good view. He can now give call outs: open doors, closed doors, another dog leg, maybe some kind of partition or or obstacle, whatever it is, he's calling it out. How do we get around this corner? There's a couple different ways. In this case, since Damon has the best view, Damon's going to creep up to the near side, still utilizing cover, and now all this turns into is basically like leaving a room into a hallway, so he's going to get the squeeze and release from one of you. He's going to do his Peak paw push, and as he pushes, he's going to start going to this far side. Okay, but again, he's not making a super like movement towards the front; he's it's a lateral movement, and then he's going to take little baby steps and wait for people to catch up. So let's go ahead and give him the squeeze and release. So Damon just kind of get over there and pause for me now. While that's happening, where which side were you on? I was on Far Side. Okay, so you stay there. Now near side, you come up. Now we have to we can't assume that it's just four people; we have to assume in teamc Q be that we have more than four people, six, eight, maybe 12, so we have to play it that way. So now John comes in and takes near side. Okay, so now as Damon sees JN taking near side, they start to creep up together. You're just going to fall in whichever side you want to fall in on. Okay, index, come back. It can be that easy. It's really Whoever has the best view down this direction that we're about to travel should kind of Take the Lead. Okay, so again, if it was the same for you going this way, then I would push you to that near side. Okay, so we don't want Damon; he has the best view, but he doesn't have the best cover; that's why we're saying, hey, push here and get ready to actually, you know, and make entry into this hallway. So let's do that on the approach one more time, and then again, call out that dog leg right, please. Right. Okay. Whatever Damon C is going to call it out, and then as he's calling it out, he's just going to start pushing that way because again, he knows what to do; he knows that he has the best view; more than likely, he's going to be the one man into this hallway. Now he's got his security posture, and he's just waiting for that squeeze and release. So who's the squeeze and release coming from? John, who's on the near side. Johnny's side. You your stack is is on the far side, so you are the last one to go. All right, so give him the squeeze and release. Damon's going to peek, pause, push. JN comes in immediately takes the near side, and they start walking, and then Johnny comes in. If we have more assaulters, they all come in and start filling the stack and making it even on both sides. Uh, so let's do a dog leg left now. Dog leg left. Okay, so we're coming up. Cross coverage, obviously nothing to see here, Damon, so you're going to give that up, and then yep, John's going to take near side. Nope, nope, not before the squeeze and release, so you kind of just get this and maintain, and yep, and then he's he has to give you the squeeze and release so that you can have that reassurance that he's with you, you know what I mean? You don't want to go into this hallway by yourself. So go ahead and creep up. Yep, creep up, get that look, get to the near side. Okay, and then Damon's going to give him that squeeze and release. Peak, pause, push. Damon takes near. Now we just walk, walk, walk. Good. Johnny's looking for for work, so he's going to join you. Perfect, perfect. Well done. Notice how Johnny just took the initiative to join you guys; that that that kind of initiative is what assaulters need to have. There's a saying in C CQB that that is often thrown out, saying always look for work, always look for work, always look for work. If you're always looking for work, then everything we need to do inside of a room or in a hallway will get covered down. And so again, we need to be switched on; nobody told Johnny to come join you guys, but he saw us a wider hallway, and and he's like, you know what, I can fit my gun in there unless all three of us have our guns out. Okay, so let's do that again, and we'll go dog leg left. So we're coming on to this this dead end here; it's a hard left turn. Good, good index.

So now let's go into a t-section. So so we're traveling along let's say the vertical portion of that t, and this is the horizontal or the top of the T. Okay, so leadership at this point needs to make a call. Let's say that the leadership says hold left, go right. Okay, so for you guys, hold left, go right. So how that looks now is like as you guys have that Cross coverage, you're going to creep up onto this intersection or this t-section with maintaining that Cross coverage as long as possible and then pause there. Okay. All right, let me see it. Maintain that Cross coverage as long as possible, creep up as much as you can. Okay, cuz you still have a couple feet here. Okay, so the directional call again was hold left, go right. Okay, so who has the best view of going this way? Damon. Okay, so when this happens now, we're going to have to have two people kind of peel at the same time. Okay, now now what's going to happen is when you you guys are going to it's going to take a little bit of coordination, so go ahead and get that Cross coverage, and what you're going to do is you're going to give each other a quick little look, a quick little nod or whatever that sop is, right, and then you're both going to peel at the same time, and you're going to Peak pause push to The Far Side immediately. Johnny, you're going to go to the near side of the direction of travel. You said we're going right, correct? Okay, so hold left, go right. When I said hold left, go right, that's why Damon is also peeling at the same time as John. J's going to go to the direction of travel; dam is going to get rear security; they're both going to get this this snapshot; they're going to both push across to get that snapshot, and then Johnny, you're going to fall in Trace with John; you become the one the the two one men, and then you're but before you do that, you pick up Damon in route. Okay, in fact, I'll be the number four man, and then we can we can make this work even easier. So you guys maintain that cross cover as long as possible, little bit of hand eye coordination there, peel at the same time, Peak pause push right. Okay, and like Johnny, come back. Johnny, come back. Everybody come back. Since I added myself to it, I have to change one thing. Remember when we go into when we go into a hallway or t-section, the direction of travel that side of the stack all goes first. Okay, so in this case, we're going right, correct? The left side you got to hold except for you; you're peeling, but you got to hold right as and as as he pushes to The Far Side, you pick up near near side. Okay, and then as he pushes to The Far Side, I pick up near side, except what happens is as you pick up near side and you see there's nothing there, you're going to go over there, give him a last man tap, come join us on the stack, and then Damon also com joins the stack. Does that make sense to everybody? Okay, we can't do this thre man; we have to do it fourman. I mean, we can do it three man, but for the sake of video, this is team CQB, so all right, so give yourselves a little bit of coordination, and then peel at the same time, and then right. Sorry, soor from right there as soon as you get that one look and you're like, yep, clear, go get him, give him a last man tap, come join us, and then dam is going to come join us. Should we do it again? Yeah. All right. Peak, pause, push. Good. We take baby steps until they catch up. Good index. How'd that look over there? That domino effect. It look good. So Johnny, I'm I'm cuz I I I couldn't see, so I'm assuming you peeled and then you came here last man; you came and join us. Okay, perfect, perfect. That's how we utilize all four people. If we had three people, I'll kind of explain that, but I threw myself in the stack as I'm dropping here. Am I just walking to him? Yeah. Well, it's it's in your best interest to get kind of a peak paw push as well. Okay, cuz you don't want to just assume you're walking just cuz Damon didn't get shot; that doesn't mean you won't, right? So I would do that for myself, give it a quick peek and then go get Damon. Okay, let's do it again. Okay, index. Good, good job. That's why we take baby steps as the two one men on the new direction of travel cuz we know that these guys are a few steps behind us, plus we don't want to walk onto an open door with just the two of us, that cuz then now we have to hang; we we're getting hung up waiting for these guys, so baby steps, baby steps until we hear the pitter patter of their feet. Once I feel that he's on my back, now we're striding it out because again, we're in a hallway; let's get out of this hallway, right? Okay, one more time. Okay, now we pick it up. Good index, good. Once we have everybody, we step it out. So with men traveling along the top of the T, this is out of play, so this is the top of the T; this is the vertical perpendicular portion. Leadership needs to make the decision: do we hold left and go straight or do we hold straight and go left? Well, in this case, we're going to hold left and go straight. Okay, hold left, go straight. So what does what does this mean simply is that as we creep up to this intersection, so let's do that, get your Cross coverage, go ahead and creep up to it; you're just holding long. So now that we're here, we have one man on secure; we can't can't stay here very long, right? Cuz who's protecting Damon from this side that you can't see? Make sense? So that's why again, we can't stay here long, but by the numbers, you guys came in, and you got as much crossr as you can. Once Damon saw this, he's he's there; he's set; he's pulling security to that direction. Okay, but what needs to happen is when you guys give that coordination with each other, you're going to pee you're going to peel, Peak pause push; you're going to come over to this side, and then you're going to hold it from here and let these guys go through. Okay, and then whoever the last man is actually might be me; I'll give you that last man tap, then we we continue going. All right, so what happens here is the T, the vertical portion of the t-section needs to we need to pull Security on that. Okay, what happens at this point is John, when you do your Peak pause, when you peel and do your Peak pause push, you push to that far side, and you maintain security. Johnny, you're just going to give your near side a little snapshot; you're going to give it that snap look, and then you're going to pick up and get um get uh John, give him the last man to continue. Damon and I are going to continue forward, but I am going to push off to that opposite side on this since we have nothing to do on this side. Make sense? All right, so let's go through it. Cross coverage, then we're coming up on this right. Okay, good. And in this case, you guys are really fast, so I just I just stayed on my side. Okay, but I was actually getting ready to come up, and if you were taking too long, I was going to come up and compensate for that Cross coverage. So Damon's doing his call outs right here if he sees anything. Good. Okay, good. And it's really as simple as that; the point of intersections is we need to have security to the directions not traveling; as long as we have security to the directions that we're not traveling, getting across that is is pretty easy. So if I have two guns pointed in Security man, I could just post you guys here all day and get everybody through this intersection and then pick you guys up with the last men, you know what I mean? And that's all it is: security to the portion we're not going to, one or two guns, and security to the portion that we are going to, and that's it, then everybody catches up with each other. Okay, so let's do this on the move. Okay, index. If we're doing this in a more Dynamic way where we're saying, look, we know that there's a fight there; we know that whatever is down there is that's where we need to get to, the screaming, the gunshots; we need to get there; we can blow past this; we can blow past this intersection and just pie it on like a floating kind of like a floating pie, and so we're just going to pie ourselves across this intersection as we come as we come onto this intersection; we're not going to slow down; we're not going to pause. As you come up upon this threshold, you're just going to plug it all the way through until you get to a place where you can go back to the 12. Johnny, you're going to do the same thing for yourself. Okay, so we're just going to flow right through this intersection; it's a little more dynamic. Okay, index. So there's a few other methods of addressing inter t-sections like this, whether we're traveling along the T top the te or traveling along the perpendicular of the te, few other methods for that, but we're just introducing the two most popular methods as well as the kind of dynamic method because of time sensitive issues down there, right? We are traveling along the top of the te again, and this time the leadership says hold straight, go left. Okay, or hold front, go left, want something like that. Hold front, go left. So now we got to pull security to the front, and our direction of travel is to the left, so what does that imply to us, right? Okay, so what that implies is as we come up to this intersection and we have that Cross coverage, John, you need to at this point when you peel, you're going to do that Peak PA push, push to that far side, and start kind of Tippy Toe that way. Johnny, you're going to come in near side. Okay, and you're G to do the same thing; you're gonna kind of peak Paws push and then get in there with them, and you two become the onen, and then as Damon kind of moves to that side to pull security, I'm going to sorry, Damon's going to move to the near s side to pull security; I'm going to go straight and then pick up Damon, and then we'll join you guys. Okay, we we'll do this; we'll do this first one kind of by the numbers so I can talk it and walk it at the same time. Okay, so let's come up to the intersection with Cross coverage, little bit of coordination between you two, and Damon, you're going to go push to that Far Side. Good. I'm here; I don't see anything. Last man, I joined John. Damon joins Johnny, and now we're both traveling down this hallway. Easy enough, right? Last man, index. All right, so four-way intersection; we have three directions we can go; we can go left; we can go front; we can go right. So leadership says hold right, hold front, go left. Hold right, hold front, go left. Okay, so we need to somehow negotiate this where we are pulling security to our right, Point Security to our front, and then actually going to the left. All right, so what this looks like is as you guys your job stays the same. Okay, for this portion, you're going to go up there.

Get that Cross coverage. You're going to peel at the same time you're both going to Peak pause push. Okay, Damon, as you get to the far side of this hallway, you're going to give this up and give that a look and then come right into the stack whoever you fall in on on that side. Okay, and I'm basically doing the same thing in trace on the near side, and then I'm going to do the same thing on the far side. Now Damon's going to go from here. As you guys Peak pause push, Damon's going to use that push right, that's why you move together cuz it's body bunkering each other. Damian's going to use that push to also push himself across right, so he's also going to Peak pause push that way, but then once he gets to The Far Side looking that way, he's going to give that a look and then he's going to join you guys. I'm going to get it. I'm going to come in from the near side, give that a look, go pick up Damon and then join you guys.

Okay, yeah. All right, let's do this. That's man. Okay, index. Last index. So using a deliberate method of Crossing this four-way intersection, again we said hold hold right hold front, we're going left, hold right hold front going left. Okay, so you guys know what you're doing, correct? You're coming up to this Cross coverage, you both peel Peak pause push, and as you push Damon, you're going to recess in a little bit so that I can come drop over you and get long this way, and then I'm going to recess in so that when you turn around I'm not in your way, but as you turn around you give me that last man. I pick up and I join you guys as the fourth man. Makes sense? You guys are already kind of halfway down the hallway by now. Okay, let's do that. Index.

So now we are going straight, so we're going to say hold right hold left go straight, hold right hold left go straight. So what this H what happens here is as you guys come Cross coverage Cross coverage Cross coverage, same coordination, give it a quick peel Peak pause push, but as you guys push across, remember to recess in a little bit, cuz then what Johnny and I are doing is we're going to come drop right over you, and we are just going to continue down this hallway, and then we'll hopefully pick you guys up. If I can't give you a tap, I'll give you a verbal, cuz again we are the kind of in the front now, right? So we'll try our best, but it just may be a verbal. You guys can you guys picture that though? You understand? Okay, Johnny, you and I just just going to go and we pick up our guys on the end. All right, let's go ahead. Last man. Last man.

All right, so the last piece of the puzzle here on the four-way is we need to hold left hold front and go right. So nothing really changes from going left to right, but now we're just going to go to the right for the sake of the training. All right, so hold left hold front go right. We've been through this before, so you guys again continuity here, come up with that Cross coverage, maintain it as long as possible, little bit of coordination, peel out Peak pause push. Okay, and as you guys push, Johnny you're going to get long, so again you have to recess in, so Peak pause push, recess in a little bit. Johnny's going to drop on top of you, he's going to pull along. Dam's going to do the same thing, he's going to Peak paw push across to the far side, but Damon's going to start walking towards the direction of travel, and what I'm going to do is from the near side I'm going to do the same thing where I Peak pause push and then I join Damon. What you guys need to do at this point is who's who's here, that's you right, John? You need to peel, pick up Johnny and then get on our backs and we and we get back on that stack. You guys good with that? Okay, opposite of what we did earlier where I picked my man up, you guys now pick your man up. Okay, hold left hold front going right. Okay, index. Okay, good. Was there like a slight hesitation there on YouTube? Uh, I just had to use my purls to pick him up. Okay, as soon as I saw were you trying to decide like at what point should I peel off? This no, as soon as I was just trying to either hear or see him, and as soon as I saw him pick up then I tried to turn around and go.

Okay, perfect. Perfect. Yeah, let him kind of get settled that way he gets kind of past you and and that way cuz we don't want to interrupt him on the Move in case he needs to take a shot, but once I hear him stop and I don't hear any gunshots, okay, let me peel, pick up Johnny, get back into the stack. Leadership says hold left hold front going right, move index. Thanks for joining us on this episode of the pros guide to team CQB. Tune in to the next one where we will demonstrate how to properly execute all the different skills and Concepts that we have taught you over the video series. [Music] [Music]