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If you are considering a Special Ops profession, particularly one that could involve waterborne operations, you will need to learn the modified sidestroke, also called the combat swimmer stroke. The uniqueness of this stroke is that it can be used either with fins or without. This modified sidestroke has been unofficially nick named “the CSS” and is used
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