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Originally Posted by The Reaper
So if you and your buddies crash my door with a no-knock at 0330 waving weapons around, I can deal with you accordingly?
Was shooting the 93 year old the only viable Course of Action?
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Was it your post in another thread about having entry team members see things from the receiving end?
I quite liked that one.
I've role played fully prepared when the boys make entry. That's pretty interesting. And I'm sure it's far more interesting when unprepared.
For us, and in my limited and personal experience, in order to use less than lethal tools, we had to be on the receiving end a fair bit before we had the responsibility of being on the distribution end.
Not long ago I had a REALLY random situation with a old lady with known mental health issues pulling a handgun on me in Afghanistan. Fortunately close enough to disarm, but I'm still trying to process that one.
Fortunately, I didn't poop myself but I can now see clearly why it can happen.
The only other relevant example I have(long time ago, different AO) of personal experience is an 0300 wakeup call in a "weapons free" village with 3 armed bad buggers who chopped up a local cop. An infant suddenly starting to cry in the structure our informant led us to that we were about to hit. It wasn't in the "actions on", and the crying started after we stacked up. That was an awkward brain fart moment.
I'm no cop, but I've worked with a bunch……..I don't envy the difficulty of pars of their job.
Being janitors for humanity on top of trying to solve these problems without the need for going kinetic unnecessarily is a pretty tough job I reckon.
I've become quite interested in learning the art/science behind training for effective decision making under stress.