CAMP X
THE BIRTH OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS IN CANADA
Many consider the birth of U.S./British and Canadian foreign agent and military special operations training was birthed in Canada in 1941. CAMP X was officially opened on the shores of Lake Ontario outside of Toronto Canada on December 6, 1941.
There they trained men and women in the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS-British), Special Operations Executive (SOE-British), British Security Co-Ordination (BSC-British/North American), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI-United States),
Office of Strategic Services (OSS-United States-early CIA), Office of War Information (OWI-United States) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP-Canadian).
The Chief Instructor at CAMP X was William Fairbairn, considered one of the world’s most dangerous ‘silent killers’, who was brought in from the War Office Training Center in Scotland, known as Castle Commando, where he and Major Eric Sykes, assassin instructor, were training Spies, Saboteurs and Commandos in hand-to-hand combat, knife-fighting and pistol techniques, including my father, a WWII combat-decorated (Operation Gauntlet-Spitsbergen; Operation Jubilee-Dieppe; Operation Overlord-Normandy, to name a few) Commando squad leader, who trained me.
This training was easy and quick to learn and execute with deadly effectiveness.
ORIGINAL CAMP X – INSTRUCTORS OF SHADOW OPERATORS
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
WILLIAM E. FAIRBAIRN
THE WORLD’S MOST LETHAL HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTER OF ALL TIME
In the early 1900’s, William E. Fairbairn was a British Royal Marine (commonly known today as Commandos) stationed in Japanese controlled Korea. He spent his days training with the Royal Marines (no small feat in itself), and his nights studying martial arts with the toughest Japan and Korea had to offer.
He spent years doing this until he ended up as a cop (for 33 years) in the most dangerous place on earth… Shanghai. There he learned every single thing about every martial art he could possibly get his hands on. He also took up boxing, wrestling and savate. He studied Kung Fu from the personal bodyguard to the Empress of China to become the first Westerner to receive black belts in Judo and Jujitsu from a Japanese grandmaster. Four black belts in total.
This is where Fairbairn, Sykes and O’Neill first met and worked together.
One day, after he was beaten and stabbed many times and left for dead, he realized that all the martial arts and self-defense fighting methods he had mastered, wasn’t good enough.
From his military training, mixed with his expertise in four Eastern martial arts and his street experience, he developed what was required to defeat the realities of evil violence.
Fairbairn developed combatives to be used by elite units, which was proven time and again to be the best. He had a passion for no rules, uncivilized, no decency, dirty killing, referring to himself as Mister Murder-Made-Easy.
He survived 600+ no-holds-barred street fights with Shanghai Tong gang members, who were renowned for their lethal ways.
While in Shanghai, he designed practical self-defense methods for civilians, known as “Defendu,” which many believe, even today, to be what was taught at CAMP X, Castle Commando and the Jedburgh teams. It isn’t.
This lethal methodology brought him to the attention of the British military when WWII broke out.
In WWII, the British War Office and Combined Operations opened a Training Center in Scotland, called Castle Commando, to train Commandos for raids into Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean. At this ‘finishing school’ as it was called, they learned how to finish an enemy by head instructor Lieutenant Colonel William E. Fairbairn and Major Eric A. Sykes.
Colonel Fairbairn became the Father of Combatives.
Fairbairn, considered one of the world’s most dangerous ‘silent killers’, was the obvious choice to later be brought in as…
Chief Close Quarter Combat Instructor at CAMP X. He also trained the American Jedburgh teams at the secret OSS Training Area-B facility in Maryland.
MAJOR ERIC A. SYKES
ASSASSIN INSTRUCTOR
Joint UK/US Jedburgh teams were inserted into WWII Nazi occupied France to conduct guerilla warfare and sabotage, spearheading the Allied invasion and liberation of Europe.
One of the Jedburgh team leaders was William Colby who brought this training into the CIA when he became its director after the war.
The UK/US Jedburgh teams were trained by British Major Eric A. Sykes in assassination, unarmed combat, knife combat and firearm combat. He also trained Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents (assassinations, clandestine operations, espionage, sabotage) at various secret training sites.
Sykes was the co-designer of the Fairbairn-Sykes Commando Knife and had been an instructor at Castle Commando, an Inspector in the Shanghai Police Gang/Sniper Units (1st SWAT), a WWI British Army Sharpshooter and so…
earned a coveted position as an instructor at CAMP X.
MAJOR DERMOT “PAT” O’NEILL
AMERICA’S DEADLIEST IRISHMAN
The Devil’s Brigade or First Special Service Force (FSSF) was a joint Canadian-American Commando group who were trained in Montana USA. Best known for their fearsome night raids behind enemy lines in WWII.
Their unarmed, knife and firearm combat instructor, Major Dermot “Pat” O’Neill, was co-designer of the V-42 dagger, an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Instructor, a Shanghai Police Gang Unit (1st SWAT) Unarmed Combat Instructor (appointed by William E. Fairbairn), a high-ranked Black Belt, who blended multiple arts, to take on ruthless Kung Fu experts and Asian gang members and…
was an instructor at CAMP X.
CAMP X assembled the world’s greatest masters in asymmetric warfare, combatives, espionage and sabotage in Fairbairn-Commandos, Sykes-Commandos/Jedburgh and O’Neill-Devil’s Brigade.
Common sense would dictate that such close quarter combat (CQC) material taught at CAMP X would be continued, especially for the military.
A politically correct world decided such training was outside the bounds of acceptable behavior. Improper. Unacceptable.
Evil around the world didn’t stop though.
MYTHS OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS
COMBATIVES PROGRAM,
KRAV MAGA AND CIA TRAINING
Common sense would dictate that such close quarter combat (CQC) material taught at CAMP X would be continued, especially for the military.
Yet, unarmed, knife and unconventional weapons combatives training for government intelligence field operatives (e.g. U.S. CIA; British MI6) and Military Special Units (e.g., U.S. Army Delta Force; British SAS) over the decades have, in many units, been watered-down and even eliminated altogether to meet political correctness, financial motives and/or modern warfare preferences in favor of an individual’s dependency on heavy automatic weaponry; mechanized armor; missiles; drones; team assistance and reinforcements.
Unfortunately, since 2000, the US military accepted a rose-colored glasses approach to CQC by accepting the Modern Army Combatives Program (MACP) and then in 2010 started training their Special Operators in the Special Operations Combatives Program (SOCP) which was developed by a BJJ and Muay Thai instructor. Programs that focus on punching and deliberate ground work against one threat.
Krav Maga (invented by a Hungarian boxer/wrestler) does the same, while the CIA teaches agents a combination of Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and BJJ. Again, punching and deliberate ground techniques.
People foolishly believe the perpetuated myth that military training or some martial art or anything with a “tactical” label slapped on it must be the best in the world for self-protection.
JUST THE FACTS
Utilizing original CAMP X, Castle Commando, Jedburgh team, The Devil’s Brigade and other’s methods, the new CAMP X was developed in the effort to preserve lives, particularly civilian lives.
Vicious criminals, predators, terrorists and indiscriminate violence are rising realities set against an unprepared populace. Threats exist at home, work, school, public venues, vacation locales and the street. Statistics reveal, that most will encounter at least one violent threat against them in their lifetime. Many have and will experience multiple attacks. Attacks can include life-altering experiences such as emotional trauma, sexual assault, hospitalization, permanent injuries and death.
The government doesn’t prepare civilians for this common threat. Their educational systems have decided that subjects such as algebra, drama and physics, better prepare a person for the world, then how to protect themselves and their families from threats on their lives.
The financial cost to government for health care; disability payments; lost taxes and police actions due to crime and violent acts against the population, is incalculable. Besides saving lives, a trained population can reduce these expenses.
The police are a necessary part of civilian safety, yet, they usually arrive when a violent act has already concluded.
CAMP X prepares you on how to meet these threats on your life. Close quarter combatives (CQC) training is usually limited to government intelligence field operatives (e.g., U.S. CIA; British MI6) and military special operators (e.g., US Army Delta; British SAS: US Navy SEALS).
Unarmed combatives training in these specialized groups over the decades since WW II has unfortunately, in many units, been watered-down to meet political correctness and/or financial motives. Quality unarmed, knife and unconventional weapons combatives has all but been abandoned in favor of a reliance on heavy automatic weaponry; personal armor; mechanized armor; team assistance and reinforcements. MACP and SOCP training is flawed when alone and military assets are unavailable (e.g. off-duty; retired).
What use is MACP, SOCP, martial arts and fighting systems for a person against threats when they are old, weak, injured, physically limited?
You must rely on superior combatives skills to obtain the greatest prospect at surviving violent threats.
MAJOR FLAW
The original CAMP X was successful for certain types (potential assassins, commandos, saboteurs and spies) who make up about 2% of a population but the training lacked certain essentials to make it work for the other 98% and to counter a wider range of bad guy scenarios.
U.S. Government research discovered after WWII that most trained soldiers and law enforcement personnel, let alone civilians, fail to act in combat without an essential component being added to their physical skillsets.
Let me say that another way. Fight businesses are not only selling heavily flawed material, but also people believe the myth that they will just use what they learned when bad guys show up.
Problem is… statistics say up to 98% won’t. The other 2% will apply what they bought into, that can get them killed by armed, violent, deadly, younger, bigger, stronger, faster bad guys.
THE SECRET SAUCE
OF CLOSE QUARTER COMBAT
You see, even if you learn the right skills, which most don’t, people will choke or underperform when threatened even to save their own life.
COMBATIVS CAMP X incorporates a behavioral engineering process in its system to fix this gaping, life-threatening hole.
THE WOLVERINE FACTOR is a vital required component if you want to survive threats.
Sending anyone into harm’s way without this secret sauce, that I teach, statistics say is tantamount to sending them to their destruction.
Why would any instructor of any program ignore this vital component? Quick answers are, they don’t know about it and even if they did, most students are children that want to learn what’s flashy. They want what the entertainment world tells them is hot. So, instructors follow the money. In governments and militaries there’s arrogance, political correctness and back-room power control and cash kickback elements involved.
U.S. Military statistics report that those who had this type of training vs militaries that did not, produced an astounding increase of up to 50-to-1 in combat.
A 100% increase would be extraordinary.
50-to-1 IS A 4900% INCREASE
THAT’S A 4900% INCREASE IN EFFECTIVENESS OVER MILITARY FORCES THAT WEREN’T TRAINED IN THIS PROCESS
This is a vital component beyond accurate, physical, combat skillsets needed to survive threats.
If you’re lacking in any of the components in this program, your chances of surviving an attack by multiple, armed bad guys will be because they decided they got bored and decided to let you live when they were done.
Is that a gamble you’re willing to take for yourself and your family? Or for you and your buddies on the battlefield?
THE RESULT
Battle-hardened instructors at the original CAMP X, Castle Commando, the Jedburgh teams and The Devil’s Brigade never taught grappling, martial arts or self-defense material as they knew from experience that these were failed concepts.
They became angrily indignant at military officers and liberal politicians that tried to force them to cease their ‘ungentlemanly warfare’ training. They refused because they knew it would cost lives.
Unfortunately, 21st Century politically correct militaries and governments haven’t changed from their WWII eyes-wide-shut counterparts.
The new CAMP X strips the training down to a person being alone, in street clothes, dependent on finishing skillsets to quickly (within a few seconds) end a violent threat. Size, age, gender, strength and endurance can be overcome with the skillsets taught.
New CAMP X is derived from the original CAMP X, Castle Commando, Jedburgh team, The Devil’s Brigade and decades of government and independent research and statistical evidence from actual combat conditions experienced by the military, police and civilians. It contains the psychology, mechanics and methodologies of survival found to be most successful when in violent close quarter encounters.
CAMP X is not based on a sport like MMA cage fighting, as competitions, although intense, have rules and referees, no weapons and no multiple threats. These are controlled contest fights with safety features, not combat. Martial arts training exercises are therefore counter-productive for combat survival.
At CAMP X, the training and practical application is focused on a different mindset, on a different set of targets, to be used against a different kind of adversary to affect a different result.
CAMP X provides you with the skills necessary to engage threats with confidence, increased performance and identifiable success at the highest level.
CAMP X covers extremely aggressive hand to hand (H2H), hand to weapon (H2W) and weapon (W2W) strategies and tactics in close quarters, against single and multiple threats, to prepare you for violent encounters that can take place anywhere, at any time. On and off duty at risk government personnel, military and law enforcement can be in a position without weapons, without back-up, without technology or team resources at their disposal and so, must rely on their CAMP X skills when necessary.
“Professional. Efficient. Effective. Practical. Invaluable to protect yourself and your loved ones.”
Meryl
CAMP X also covers defeating the threat of PTS, threat assessments and dealing with the legal system after an event.
You’ll obtain skills that most don’t know and will never know, even highly trained professionals… skills that can save your life and the lives of others.
BETTER TO HAVE IT AND NOT NEED IT THAN TO NEED IT AND NOT HAVE IT
Evil violence against innocent lives has many names such as ruthless; barbaric; unjust; evil; destructive; merciless; terroristic; deadly. It comes in many forms. Rationalizing with it, appeasing it, negotiating with it, submitting to it, coddling it, defending from it, just empowers it.
When evil violence comes, and it does come, having a McDojo certificate won’t scare it. Throwing “combatives-lite” at it won’t dent it.
If You haven’t Trained Correctly
to Immediately Destroy
Multiple Armed Threats
in Close Quarters,
then You’ve Trained to Die in Battle
I started all this over 60 years ago. If there was any better out there, I’d have found it and I’d be using it.
GO FOR IT
A few hours after you start training at CAMP X, you’ll obtain skills that most don’t know and will never know, even highly trained professionals… skills that can save your life and the lives of others.
Fear will dissolve.
Confidence will overtake you.
The CAMP X Programs teach how to effectively neutralize multiple armed attackers. Anything less is a waste of your time and money and may cost you your life.
AT CAMP X… THERE IS NO BOXING. THERE IS NO MIXED MARTIAL ARTS.
Just extreme finishing tactics that work in seconds, even on armed multiple attackers.