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"Show me your hands! Show me your hands!"
Jul. 19th, 2016 05:10 amI spent an amazing, eye-opening, heart-pounding day yesterday with the police department taking part in Active Shooter scenarios.
As the "rookie" of the volunteers I was baptized by fire by being made the "active shooter". Nothing like having three armed officers storm into a room and start shooting you.Yikes! But hey, I got to shoot back! And guess what? I hit ALL THREE officers. Two of them "fatally" and one "seriously wounded". I wish you guys could've seen their faces when the scenario ended and I pulled off my full helmet with face shield. They were all like "WTF? We just got killed by this little girl??" ROTFL! The two instructors were giving me thumbs up signs and said I did "a fantastic job, just what we wanted". Ha! And my fellow volunteers were very impressed. :-)
But I took my knocks in the process. One round hit me in the shoulder, another in the upper arm, one on my hand and another in the leg that actually drew blood and has now swelled up. But it was a small price to pay to take part in the day.
As someone who writes about men in uniform this was invaluable research for me. But just in general it was fascinating to see how each team of officers approached the same scenarios differently, but with the same end result. I'll have a longer blog post about this later, with more detail.
Here's a photo of the rounds that were fired at me. The top is from a Glock, the bottom from an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle (that's the one that drew blood!). The Glock still has the paintball head attached to it.
As the "rookie" of the volunteers I was baptized by fire by being made the "active shooter". Nothing like having three armed officers storm into a room and start shooting you.Yikes! But hey, I got to shoot back! And guess what? I hit ALL THREE officers. Two of them "fatally" and one "seriously wounded". I wish you guys could've seen their faces when the scenario ended and I pulled off my full helmet with face shield. They were all like "WTF? We just got killed by this little girl??" ROTFL! The two instructors were giving me thumbs up signs and said I did "a fantastic job, just what we wanted". Ha! And my fellow volunteers were very impressed. :-)
But I took my knocks in the process. One round hit me in the shoulder, another in the upper arm, one on my hand and another in the leg that actually drew blood and has now swelled up. But it was a small price to pay to take part in the day.
As someone who writes about men in uniform this was invaluable research for me. But just in general it was fascinating to see how each team of officers approached the same scenarios differently, but with the same end result. I'll have a longer blog post about this later, with more detail.
Here's a photo of the rounds that were fired at me. The top is from a Glock, the bottom from an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle (that's the one that drew blood!). The Glock still has the paintball head attached to it.
