My FIL was a drill sergeant in the Army. He told about how after the recruits received hand-to-hand combat training they would go into town and get their butts kicked by the locals.
And that is why marines are given rifles
One evening my roommate from Officers Training School was stopped at a stoplight near the Alamo in San Antonio. Out of nowhere an hombre reached through the window and cut him with a straight razor from his ear to his chin. Finished OTS with a face full of stitches. That was in 1963.