Thursday, January 11, 2018

Training vs Practice

Response - It's clear you're old school. That sort of activity with "biker gangs" pretty much fell off the map about 20 years ago.



Response - math really isn't your specialty. If you've trained three years, and your coach 5; then he had less training when he started coaching you than you do now.



Page 13 indicates you are wrong - the typical Marine of WWI did not train at distances of over 800 yards. Sure, some shots may have been made from that distance, but the training was conducted at 200, 300, and 600 yards.

The class you are referencing (without knowledge, clearly) uses an AR15 (with or without scope) at 25m - much like the US Army Alt-C qualification... except there's no 50m, 100m, 150m, 200m, or 250m scale targets.



I'd rather someone have a brief, 4 hour combat medical class than nothing at all. And if someone thinks they are a combat medic after 4 hours... well I have some beachfront property in Tennessee to sell them.

Oh, and one of the two combat medics you speak of taught the same class you're putting down.



People in many endeavors have ranks that share an amount of commonality to military ranks - airline pilots, TSA agents, police, firefighters, and the lost goes on. Even the Salvation Army has ranks. Also, here's a brief history lesson: the US militia first used military ranks when we fought the British. They used pretty much the same names for ranks as the British Army used. Then, when we formalized our Army, the ranks were borrowed again. 

Point is, stolen valor is a person claiming to have military rank (or other military credentials) that they did not earn. An organization awarding rank to its members is simply not the same. And you know that.




On the flip side, here are a few questions for you:
1. Have you ever attended a firearm training class?
2. Did you attend this or other firearms classes offered by this instructor?
3. Did you know,  "kernel" is part of popcorn, while a "Colonel" is a rank?
4. Why was it ok for this instructor to teach these same classes when he was with your group, but not now?
5. You want to know how I know your answer to #1 and #2? Here it is:
(Your coaches should have told you this)

Training vs. Practice...

Training:  Where a student is taught how to do something by an instructor.
Practice:  Where a student repeats what they’ve been trained to do until they can do it automatically, or without thought.


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