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Focus: All sworn or commissioned officers of any rank. Any
member of the US military, active
or
reserve.
Length: 40-hours (5-days)
This five-day instructor training
is REVOLUTIONARY in its concept and delivery! It is
an instructor-level course providing a
COMPLETE TRAINING SYSTEM
of how to create, document, and deliver safe and realistic
training to your officers. The five days are spent providing your
agency-instructors expert instruction in HOW TO TRAIN your
officers utilizing Airsoft technology in dynamic, drill-based,
force-on-force or scenario-based training. Safety and effectiveness of
the training in affecting your officers’ conduct in the field are key
concepts that are ingrained into the curriculum. This course
represents a departure from many other courses of its type. Where many
others focus primarily on the safety aspects of this type of training,
ours not only teaches your agency trainer how to safely manage this
valuable training, this course presents cutting edge learning theory
in drill-oriented, force-on-force, and scenario-based training design.
Simply put, we teach your trainer how to build a safer program from
the ground up.
Effective simulations training is more than
paintball guns or marking cartridges and a thrown-together scenario
where everyone gets to shoot someone.
This course is designed to provide your
agency trainer with high-level capabilities in the area of program
development necessary in force law, skills, the understanding of vital
and inflexible safety protocols, and adult learning theory in order to
plan, organize, document, and run a safe, and effective
drill-oriented, force-on-force, or scenario-based training utilizing
Airsoft training technology. We teach
your instructors "how to teach" the courses they will develop.
On the live-fire range, training
time is mainly devoted to learning weapon function, manipulation,
marksmanship and safety. When it is time to learn how to respond with
your firearm (pistol, rifle, shotgun) within the compressed timeframe
of an actual incident where the Threat is real, moves, and shoots
back, simulations training is a must. Your trainers learn not
only instructional design (both in the classroom and in the practical
application area), but we provide cutting edge training in legal
decision-making, critical incident decision-making (OODA theory), and
safe tactical doctrine, keeping your officers safer and reinforcing
defensible conduct.
While scenario-based or simulation training is more
than the technology used, its success has been in large part due to
the sophistication of the various technologies used to conduct this
training. As with any training media, there are pros and cons to their
use. As the agency force trainer, the instructor-candidate must have a
functional understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each of
the most utilized projectile-based tools and be able to address the
"why’s" and "why nots" about the use of any particular technology.
As a realistic training tool, Airsoft training
weapons have grown tremendously in their form and function with some
of the latest offerings as durable as their "real-steel" counterparts.
However, many of the training weapons, while true in function and
appearance, are constructed of aluminum and composite materials. For
this reason, repeated handling during dedicated training creates the
inevitably damages these tools; training is interrupted or stops. The
ability to conduct training over the long-haul will depend upon
keeping these training weapons functional. As part of this course, the
instructor candidate will be presented with the latest information on
keeping their Airsoft training running smoothly through routine
maintenance of the training weapons.
Training programs have been
put on hold or stopped completely because an officer was hurt—or even
killed—in training.
INJURIES AND DEATH ARE NOT
ACCEPTABLE! This course not only develops
agency-instructors who can employ the latest technology, it trains
them to responsibly, safely, and effectively conduct training that is
meaningful to your officers in their real-world of policing. Too many
officers have been injured or killed during this kind of training
because of relaxed or non existent safety measures. For this reason,
inflexible and proven safety protocols are mandatory, and their
adoption into any agency training be considered by the new instructor
and his/her agency.
One of the major benefits to Airsoft is that as a
dedicated training system, it can be "dropped-in" to just about
any environment at anytime for training. The potential for damage to
training areas and the need for unrealistic "Michelin Man" levels of
protective gear is significantly minimized—although adequate
protection cannot not avoided—with this technology. While Airsoft
offers a realism and flexibility not afforded by other technologies,
and can be used to train at a range ill-advised for other common
training systems, treating Airsoft like a toy is a recipe for serious
problems. Understanding what makes Airsoft a versatile training tool
and the commensurate level of safety associated with the manner in
which the technology is used will allow for more meaningful, safer
training.
Documentation of training is
essential to the liability reduction strategies.
One of the questions that will be asked
following an officer-involved force incident is "what training did
the officer receive?" and who administered the training? Training
that is not documented is considered to be training that did not
happen. Your agency’s (and officers’) risk reduction and risk
management survival are based on your ability to show that
constitutionally-based, meaningful training took place. This course
will provide the instructor-candidate with the latest in cutting edge
scenario plan development and implementation design to address the
needs of the modern agency as well as the latest understanding in how
to document training that is court and media defensible.
Participants who successfully complete this course have experienced
one of the most demanding and cutting edge training programs they have
ever undertaken. It prepares the agency force response trainer for the
critical job task of conducting worthwhile, relevant, and defensible
departmental training where tactical competence and legal
decision-making is not only a matter of high liability, but a matter
of life and death.
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