Tired_and_hungry
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I am based in a South East Asian country and had the chance to speak to a local off duty cop at a social event. He mentioned that most youngsters there who did not participate in the local version of JROTC would never have fired a gun in their lives and when the time came to be drafted for a compulsory 2 years of uniformed service, those draftees assigned to the police force showed mediocre pistol skills even after attending the mandatory revolver training at the academy. He went on to mention that side arm training involved 3 hours of classroom instruction, 3 hours of dry fire practice and 6 man hours spent in live fire practice at the range where most of the time was spend waiting your turn while others shot their training ammo allotments. He concluded by telling me that each police cadet was given 200 rounds to train with and 50 rounds to qualify with the .38 special revolver that is standard issue. He lamented that even though cadets were given two tries at a 25 round course of fire, most failed and had to have their scores "fudged" in order to graduate as rookie draftee cops.
Therefore, lemme ask you guys....if you were the weapons training officer in charge of a bunch or military police/coast guard or civilian police trainees who are total novices to handguns, how many manhours and how many rounds of training ammo AT THE MINIMUM for each individual would be required to turn zero competence trainess into personnel who could shoot well enough to do their jobs, protect their and the lives of others and handle handguns safely?
Please assume that the issue sidearm is a common .38 revolver or 9mm pistol.
Therefore, lemme ask you guys....if you were the weapons training officer in charge of a bunch or military police/coast guard or civilian police trainees who are total novices to handguns, how many manhours and how many rounds of training ammo AT THE MINIMUM for each individual would be required to turn zero competence trainess into personnel who could shoot well enough to do their jobs, protect their and the lives of others and handle handguns safely?
Please assume that the issue sidearm is a common .38 revolver or 9mm pistol.