Training and How Important it is

[WALKERs210]

I don't have concrete prove that this happened but even the story has got to put a smile on your face. An officer had gone thru the training about how to disarm a bad-guy in various forms. According to the story as it was presented to me an officer was indeed confronted with a situation where he was forced to disarm a person and in his training when the officer had disarmed the trainer he would turn the weapon butt first and return it to the trainer. This time when he actually disarmed a BG just strictly from muscle memory he actually turned the weapon butt first and almost handed the weapon to the bad guy. From what I was told the training was amended.

 

[strambo]

That is why when I do such training I end by checking the weapon's status (simulated) and back away from the threat while scanning 360. When it is time to turn it over I just drop it, he can pick it up.

I also don't give my training partners a hand up off the ground either. I want to have my training environment mirror a violent reality as much as practicable. There is no place for social niceties in a life or death situation.

Before someone says dropping it is a bad habit, by that time the immediate situation is over and it is a conscious decision, not a reflexive act. I often have multiple training guns (and knives, clubs, rifles), I sometimes stuff it in my waistband also and they can grab another one off the ground if they want.

 

[Plan2Live]

History has proven, and tragically so, that we fight the way we train.

The most recent testimony I have personally heard regarding this was from an Air Force Security Police member telling me their trainer always had them draw, fire two rounds and reholster. While engaging a real threat overseas one of her commrades did exactly this in a fire fight and is no longer with us.

Similar examples are endless as I am sure our fellow THR members will now prove with their replies.

 

[strambo]

If you hear someone use the term "training scars" this is what it means. Some bad habit we have trained into our subconscious. Anyone with a decent amount of training probably has some, the key is to minimize and correct them. A minor training scar is no biggie, ones like those mentioned so far are a big deal.

Another classic, the CA state trooper who found empty brass in his pocket after a gunfight. Revolver days, range offer made them pocket their brass when reloading so he wouldn't have to pick it up!