{"id":50817,"date":"2023-03-14T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50817"},"modified":"2025-03-14T00:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T23:04:47","slug":"the-black-house-of-the-emmoe-an-excellent-video-of-the-kill-house-of-the-elite-of-the-spanish-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/14\/the-black-house-of-the-emmoe-an-excellent-video-of-the-kill-house-of-the-elite-of-the-spanish-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The black house of the EMMOE: an excellent video of the 'kill house' of the elite of the Spanish Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the riskiest aspects of the work of special operations groups is close quarters combat (also known as CQC).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/02\/20\/this-is-how-the-future-green-berets-of-the-spanish-army-are-trained\/\">This is how the future 'green berets' of the Spanish Army are trained<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/12\/elite-military-groups-from-spain-the-us-and-other-countries-in-a-training-in-africa\/\">Elite military groups from Spain, the US and other countries in a training in Africa<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This type of combat is the one that occurs during assaults on houses and other places where the enemy can be crouching behind any door. <strong>Training for this type of combat is usually done in what the Americans call a \"kill house\"<\/strong>, an enclosure with an open roof and that has catwalks at the top so that the trainers can closely follow the steps of operators during training.<\/p>\n<p>The special operations groups of the Spanish Armed Forces have this type of training facility. Two years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/26\/la-bandera-de-operaciones-especiales-de-la-legion-boel-en-un-ejercicio-cqc-en-alicante\/\">we have already seen here the \"kill house\" of the Legion's Special Operations Flag (BOEL)<\/a>. The latest innovation in this type of facility was presented today by the Army on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EjercitodeTierraespanol\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its YouTube channel <\/a>: this is <strong>the black house of the Military Mountain and Special Operations School (EMMOE) <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Jaca (Huesca), <strong>its Special Operations Courses are training future members of the Spanish special operations groups<\/strong> (the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Civil Guard and the National Police)<strong>and also from foreign countries<\/strong>, which makes this school an international reference center. As pointed out by the Army, <strong>the black house of the EMMOE <em>\"covers the need to have a quality place<\/strong>, configurable for instruction and teaching of Combat in Urbanized Areas.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Casa &quot;negra&quot; de la EMMOE\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zJJdgx08nU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video published by the Army is of excellent quality<\/strong>, with a cinematographic aspect. The only objection that can be made is that its maximum resolution is only 720p:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52747327527_2ebecdded5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The name \"black house\" is due to the color of the interior of the facility<\/strong>, which is painted in a way that makes it more oppressive for the operators who are trained in it. A great success.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52748099744_6eba6edba9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside the house there is a van<\/strong> (with Army registration) and even an old plane. This place allows you to configure very varied scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52748099714_abb196d234_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we can see the upper part of the black house<\/strong>, with the walkway so that the monitors can follow the movements of the operators during training.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52748346783_4b6195f4da_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A striking detail from the outside are these two helicopters<\/strong>, former Bell UH-1H Hueys that belonged to the Air Mobile Forces of the Spanish Army (FAMET) and now serve in training functions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52747854346_9322ef4d47_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the riskiest aspects of the work of special operations groups is close quarters combat (also known as CQC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,17021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-special-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}