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Your plan won't go exactly as you wish it to, and some of the skills learned from your training will desert you, but you'll still be better off for having done both.
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I believe this, but I also believe the harder you train, the more of your skills
you will retain when it hits the fan. And every major military operation in
history has been "What If'd" to high heaven, just to eliminate as many
problems as possible before they have a chance to even happen.
I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I will say the folks I have a problem
understanding are the ones who hear of some "shooting" situation, and proceed to step-by-step detail out what THEY would have done to make the situation turn out better, and how they would have "blown the #%&%$*'s brains out", etc., etc., without considering all the variables that were undoubtedly present at the scene.
20/20 Hindsight is a powerful weapon, and if we could carry it into a
gunfight before the fight starts, we might never lose. But it doesn't work that way. And people who have actually been under the gun sometimes
resent having to hear about how someone who has never heard a shot fired in anger plans to kick ass and take names, when he doesn't even know which
direction the bullets are coming from.
Just my 2cents
Walter