Old Dog
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While I believe this is all worthwhile discussion of a topic that must be considered by every citizen (and first responders), I noted this, Tirod's response to another poster:
I don't know that the first poster was implying that training is useless. I always try to consider my own experiences, which helped me understand that training doesn't always overcome an individual's basic wiring ... I have seen a few highly-trained guys, who I'd always thought of as supremely confident and highly-skilled, totally lose it during critical incidents, once even when there was no danger to an officer, just a particularly brutal death -- and he was pretty experienced. I also saw, in the military, a guy whom we considered the clown of our unit, basically an inept dude with little experience and only a year or so of service, who'd never displayed any common sense, perform an exceptionally heroic feat in the face of grave personal danger.
My point is, that while training is vital, having had the training is not always an indicator of how one may respond during a critical incident.
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Its all theory until it happens, then grim reality of the occurrence, and hindsight/aftermath if you have survived.
That's a bit dismissive, as if training is useless.
I don't know that the first poster was implying that training is useless. I always try to consider my own experiences, which helped me understand that training doesn't always overcome an individual's basic wiring ... I have seen a few highly-trained guys, who I'd always thought of as supremely confident and highly-skilled, totally lose it during critical incidents, once even when there was no danger to an officer, just a particularly brutal death -- and he was pretty experienced. I also saw, in the military, a guy whom we considered the clown of our unit, basically an inept dude with little experience and only a year or so of service, who'd never displayed any common sense, perform an exceptionally heroic feat in the face of grave personal danger.
My point is, that while training is vital, having had the training is not always an indicator of how one may respond during a critical incident.