[Cincinnatus]

A really stunning testament to the effectiveness of combatives is the experience of women who've completed Melissa Soalt's (aka "Dr. Ruthless") Model Mugging program. Soalt has had forty odd students report back to her that they successfully used the techniques taught (a purist might argue that they are not pure WWII Combatives, but anyone with any background in combatives can see the similarities) against a real attacker. Nearly half of them KO'd or disabled their attacker, so that the BG was lying there when the police arrived.

It's important to realize that simply by virtue of their gender the male attackers are likely to be bigger and stronger than their intended victim, some were armed, all chose the place and time of the attack.

Her program was twenty five hours long.

While I'm admittedly no expert, from what I've read FAS almost never had more than forty hours of H2H in their SOE, OSS, and commando training programs.

This is why I'm a believer.