STRIKE - CMIC
Instructor
STRIKE COMBAT MINDSET INSTRUCTOR COURSE MANUAL
This manual is structually designed in such a way as to provide optimum information on the concepts of Combat Mindset development, as well as the negative influences that can impede it.
Additionally, it will assist any agency instructor in being able to build or ingrain Combat Mindset into their force continuum programs.
"It is not a lack of fear that separates elite performers from the rest of us. They're afraid too, but they're not overwhelmed by it. They manage fear. They use it to focus on taking correct action."
~ Laurence Gonzales ~
DEEP SURVIVAL
"Develop a mindset that won't let you quit until you are dead or the bad guy is neutralized. Although it has become dormant in most societies, we still have the 'Mean Gene' inside of us that lets us confront danger and evil when required. Cultivate it and use to your advantage."
~ Danny Hansen ~
article on Terror in America
SWAT Magazine
October 2016
"One mindset that I kept firmly implanted was that of the Layered Offense."
"...there would be no hesitation in transitioning to my next weapon system. This mindset could be termed a Weapon Loop, where I always knew where to go find my next lethal system to employ. Keeping it simple, kept me fluid and efficient."
Ret. U.S. Army MSG
Paul R. Howe
On Greatest Fear:
"Failure! Failing those I teach, failing those on my team, failing God, and failing my family. I am cognizant of the fact that any failure on my part in what I do, could cost someone their life! That is a failure I cannot abide!"
On Combat Mindset:
“I will tell you this categorically, preparing the mind is as essential as any possible skill you could ever learn or any weapon held in your hand. Your mindset is the dispenser and finisher of the battle you are engaged. When you are thrust into the combat vortex and are at the tip of the spear, your mindset determines whether you win or die!”
Jack C. Perritt
Executive Director
Strike -CMC
Short Bio Data:
Served six years in the United States Marine Corps, with two tours in Vietnam - 1968 / 1969, with 2nd Battalion 4th Marines and with CAP Team 332. He is also the recipient of the Purple Heart.
Graduated from Abilene Christian University and spent 30 years with the Dallas Police Department. Honorably retired in 2005.
Voted "Officer of the Year" 1986, by the Greater Dallas Crime Commission. Has received numerous awards and commendations.
Was runner up for the "Cop's Cop" award in 1996.
Firearms instructor for the DPD Narcotics Division and later as a full time firearms instructor for the DPD Firearms Training Center, and served as Assistant Rangemaster.
Has attended numerous firearms training schools military/and law enforcement, as well as all required departmental armorer courses.
For the past fifteen years Jack Perritt has served as the Executive Director for Strike International a tactical firearms training company for law enforcement and military personnel only. They have trained officers from multiple police agencies as well as members of U.S. Army Military Police Units.
He is now serving as the executive Director for Strike CMC and the developer of the Strike-CMC manual.