Robert Keith English's Lack of Tactical Military Experience Painfully Shows

Robert Keith English, The 19th. He's pointing his weapon at the wall, after pointing it to the camera. That's not how you clear a hallway.

Robert Keith English, also known as Master English, and Kioshi English, is a martial arts trainer at Richmond, VA's Tactical Martial Arts. He has no records of serving in the Marines, Army, or Navy. There are no records of him serving in any tactical capacity in the military.

He likes to claim that he was a Marine, but he never served in the Marines.

Yet, he showcases himself as a martial arts expert drawing experience from his time in the military. The problem for him is that there is no evidence that he served even a day in uniform. But, that doesn't stop him from continuing to show people that he had that expense.

A viewing of the trailer, "The 19th", shows Robert Keith English's lack of tactical experience.

The preview begins with guys breaching a doorway. The number one man points his weapon at the camera, then hooks right. He stood at the doorway area too long. As long as he pointed the weapon towards the camera, he should've continued forward while remaining concealed from potential enemies in the next room.

Instead, he took "forever", waving (flagging the camera) his weapon back-and-forth horizontally, before finally turning to his right. All that was required was one sweep of the weapon eyeball pair. He stood there in from the open door, with a weapon pointing toward the camera for split-second sweeping to the right as he hooked right. He also pointed his weapon at the wall for too long.

Almost instantaneously, the number 2 man would've proceeded toward the camera while remaining concealed.

Now, the number two man enters pointing his weapon toward the camera, but doesn't keep his weapon pointed in that direction. He too turns toward the right. In this part of the film, both the number one and the number two men are pointing their weapons toward their right. No weapon is covering the front of the movement.

Now, the camera may have represented a "wall." If this were true, they would not have needed to continue to cover that area. Both men were pointing toward the opening, neither men needed to "split" in the hallway. If it was evident that the specific section that they were in was "clear", and now they had another opening to worry about, they would've immediately stacked before that opening.

The team walked in front of the opening in a gaggle

From there, someone would of "sliced the pie" (" sidestepped" sideways converting the "unknown" to the "known.") as the number two man did in the film. However, the guy that "sliced the pie" walked sideways in a way that anybody in the other side would have seen his elbows before they saw the rest of him.

The enemy would know about them before our "team" would've learned of the enemy. This would've given the enemy the upper hand.

In an actual scenario, had the enemy been in the other room, this would have initiated a firefight, with the enemy in the room firing the first shots. Or, they could've waited for everybody to start piling into the room. The next room's set up would've allowed the enemy to remain "concealed" from the team entering the room. The door would now live up to its "fatal funnel" label.

Let's take this from another angle.

The guy that "sliced the pie" continued to stand in front of the "opening" that everybody was pointing their weapons too. He was presenting himself as a target. If he would've quickly "sliced the pie" and taken another part of the doorway, concealed, he would've had a good idea of what lay on the other side of the wall that his battle buddy was at.

The team spends too much time in the "fatal funnel"

Yet, he didn't take the opposite position. He just stood in front of the opening. In real life, if someone was waiting for them, hiding behind something in the other room and ready to shoot, the man that just stood in front of the opening would've been shot before he could get any of the action.

As the scene progressed, the number one man shined his light "around parts of the door edges". Then he "carefully" walked to the other side of the door, in front of the number two man, still pointing his weapon at the opening. The number two and the number three men lowered their weapons respectively as the number one man passed in front of them.

That action alone wasted a lot of time, and put the number one man at risk if a target presented himself in from the team and fired at them. It also caused two of the men to lower the weapons, temporarily leaving their sectors uncovered.

At this point of time, all three team members pointed their weapon at the opening. A fourth man did his job and covered the direction they came from.

Meanwhile, the three men stood in front of the opening too long. The enemy would've had a perfect opportunity to take all three down. Again, the door area would've lived up to its "fatal funnel" nickname.