Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 17
Bad training leaves "scar tissue" in the midbrain that is counterproductive to survival. One example of this can be observed in the way police officers conducted range training with revolvers for almost a century. Because they wanted to avoid having to pick up all the spent brass afterwards, the officers would fire six shots, stop, dump their empty brass from their revolvers into their hands, place the brass in their pockets, reload, and then continue shooting.Everyone assumed that officers would never do that in a real gunfight. Can you imagine this in a real situation? "Kings X! Time out! Stop shooting so I can save my brass." Well, it happened. After the smoke had settled in many real gunfights, officers were shocked to discover empty brass in their pockets with no memory of how it got there. On several occasions, dead cops were found with brass in their hands, dying in the middle of an administrative procedure that had been drilled into them.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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