How I became a Combat Hunter instructor isn’t a story I’ve told before—at least not in writing. When the Combat Hunter program was first developed, different elements of the course were taught by the civilian contractors who had helped build it. As we describe in Left of Bang, the course was built around three primary pillars, developed by different experts and brought together to improve how Marines observed their environment, made decisions, and acted proactively. It was a meaningful advancement in how we prepared deploying units.