The Official U.S. Army Combat Skills Handbook

Modern combat is chaotic, intense, and shockingly destructive. A soldier will experience confusing and often terrifying sights, sounds, smells, and dangers-and he must learn to survive and win despite them.

This field manual, containing the essential combat skills the U.S. Army teaches its soldiers, is the Army's most recent edition, which has been completely updated for Lyons Press by the soldier who wrote the manual for the army: Sergeant First Class Matt Larsen. Distributed to all soldie...