Who Can Teach Firearms?

This question was seen on social media. Below is the answer I gave.

Question:
When it comes to firearm training, would you chose someone with combat experience or someone that knows it but never been there?

Answer: 
The traits that make a good infantryman and the traits that make a good teacher are not mutually exclusive, but are rarely possessed by the same individual.

Beware the individual who has been in a single gunfight, as they often try to want to win *that* fight, rather than the most common situations.

Basics win fights. An individual who doesn't teach the basics is to be avoided.

Even in the military, combat skills instructors do not always have combat experience.

Just because the military does something a certain way does not make that method the most effective.

Because of these facts, combat experience is toward the bottom of the list of things I would like to see in a teacher. Not irrelevant, but certainly not necessary.


And for the record - those who state that "the teacher must have combat experience," have little or no training experience as a rule. Those who haven't trained and who also lack logical deduction cannot possibly give good advice about training instructors.