Thoughts on homegrown militia?

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Two things to keep in mind;

1. SHTF there are NO ordinary citizens.

2. No one is born with insticntive knodledge of how to handle weapons.

The general scope of the question was concerning how to organize and TRAIN a defenseive militia.

Firearms training and qualification for militaty troops is one week during basic training. One day of that is basic knowledge of weapon and safety. The rest of the week is sighting in the weapon and target qualification. A good trainer can teach the average person to safely handle a weapon in one all day session.

You TRAIN your troops before you hand them weapons of any kind, gun, knife or wooden club. Otherwise they are simply people making noise and smelling badly.

You also train them in defense, movement and operation as a unit. You train them in discipline in a crisis situation, first aid, sanitation, communications and fieldcraft (bushcraft).

I must stress again, weapons training in the U.S. is one week out of a 12 week basic course. Non weapons related topic take 12/1 priority in the building of a basic militiaman. And each country and environment will have different req