"Also in 2002, the U.S. Army adopted the Modern Army Combatives (MAC) program developed by Matt Larsen who was a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment, with the publishing of US Army field manual (FM 3-25.150) and the establishment of the US Army Combatives School at Ft Benning, Georgia. MAC draws from systems such as Brazilian Jiujitsu, Muay Thai and Kali which could be trained "live" and can be fully integrated into current Close Quarters Battle tactics and training methods. As of April 2008, for the first time in US Army history, soldiers who graduate from an official Army course can earn an MOS identifier, H3B and H4B for level III and IV MACP certification respectively.[2]
The US Air Force adopted MAC as its hand-to-hand combat system in early 2008.[3]"
These links may help as far as letting you back-engineer a combat specialty Carter could be fluent in as of 1997/8. I can't find anything relating specifically to USAF Unarmed Combat techniques, but it's really more likely, given everything, that Carter's been to SERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_and_Escape than that she's a master marksman *an* a master of unarmed combat *and* a top combat pilot *and* a theoretical astrophysicist.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-to-hand_combat
"Also in 2002, the U.S. Army adopted the Modern Army Combatives (MAC) program developed by Matt Larsen who was a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment, with the publishing of US Army field manual (FM 3-25.150) and the establishment of the US Army Combatives School at Ft Benning, Georgia. MAC draws from systems such as Brazilian Jiujitsu, Muay Thai and Kali which could be trained "live" and can be fully integrated into current Close Quarters Battle tactics and training methods. As of April 2008, for the first time in US Army history, soldiers who graduate from an official Army course can earn an MOS identifier, H3B and H4B for level III and IV MACP certification respectively.[2]
The US Air Force adopted MAC as its hand-to-hand combat system in early 2008.[3]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Army_Combatives
These links may help as far as letting you back-engineer a combat specialty Carter could be fluent in as of 1997/8. I can't find anything relating specifically to USAF Unarmed Combat techniques, but it's really more likely, given everything, that Carter's been to SERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival,_Evasion,_Resistance_and_Escape than that she's a master marksman *an* a master of unarmed combat *and* a top combat pilot *and* a theoretical astrophysicist.
I hope this helpes a litt.e