Actually I'm not infantry, I'm FO for the infantry which is in the intel field. anyway though to stay on track...
unfortunately i haven't had a chance to do the NEW combat training, just the old which was in my opinion pretty much a waste, so i have been assuming that the new system which i was told, incorrectly apparently, was based on muay thai, and jujitsu, ws also. reading the link you sent though i may just have to starting pulling a few strings to get to the classes asap. thanks for the good link.
and the reason i thought, and heck honestly still think that a person can get skilled in a martial art in a short amount of time is because it has been done, when reading historicly about various martial artist, many individuals have become dan level in 30 - 60 days a lot of it i agree totally is based on the persons natural ability as well as devotion, which is why i feel if i could dedicate 60 days to nothing but training 10 -14 hours a day i could become fairly proficient, not a master or anything, but good none the less at nearly any martial art. I promise my devotion to excellence is complete, i just hate training 2 hours a day 3 days a week, if you add it up 2 years of 6 hours a week of instruction is about the same as 60 days 10 hours a day. so make the training days about 14 hours with breaks to eat, sleep, and piss and that is actually more time than 2 years of steady lessons and practice, and hell i usually work more than a 14 hour day anyways.
the only way i will ever believe something can not be accomplished is when i fail at it myself, and as of yet i think absolutely nothing is impossible.
like my recruiter said about 4 years ago, "it's all about the want to"
thanks for all the advice, i know it is all with good intent, and by the way i totally agree with your statement in the second to last paragraph, a person does get out what the put in, and i'm more than willing to give every hour dawn to dusk, blood, sweat and tears, to get where i want to be.