Border Hunter Research Technical Report

Abstract

The Combat Hunter training program was first conceived in 2007 to meet a training gap in small unit close combat warfighting. This US Marine Corps (USMC) program of instruction (POI) trains the fundamentals of combat profiling, tracking, and optics-based observation, helping students become successful "combat hunters" in an irregular warfare battlespace. This report describes the "Border Hunter" training event, which took place in April 2010. Border Hunter may be best characterized as a one-off, "graduate level" version of the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter course. The authors attended the Border Hunter course in order to (1) capture the course content and package it for greater deployability, (2) assess the instructional outcomes of the course, and (3) explicitly articulate the linkages between the course content and underlying scientific principles. This report details the results of these endeavors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 2010
Accession Number
ADA571151

Entities

People

  • David Fautua
  • David Kobus
  • Denise Nicholson
  • Emilie A. Reitz
  • Joan H. Johnston
  • Sae Schatz
  • V. A. Spiker
  • William Ross

Organizations

  • University of Central Florida

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Change Detection
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Employment
  • Health Services
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Stress (Physiology)
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warfare

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  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design