Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing
 

The USMC technique uses legs and arms to do it, I can't imagine doing it quickly enough safely without that technique.

Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing
 

You can't count on every squad having a rope and a grapple when you are clearing a village or going over a hill.

Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing
 

I'm assuming that USMC trains in applied climbing, as opposing to using climbing as one of the generic physical exercises for a harmonious-ish physical development, right?

I mean, stuff that is done to raise certain sub-attributes and sub-sub-attributes is not necessarily applied 'in the field': e.g. the training of a pole vaulter includes bits and pieces of weightlifting in regimes that are quite different from the stresses experienced during a vault, both in terms of technique and in terms of force magnitudes/durations/directions involved.