It seems to me...
... that at least some people think the officer in Ayoob's story failed to see cover because of conscious concentration on the sights and assailant.
The way I interpret it is the officer had a pretty typical fight or flight reaction, and was not consciously concentrating at all. He was probably mentally locked onto the assailant whether he wanted to have broader SA or not.
That's a pretty normal reaction, with a physiological basis in fight or flight nervous wiring.
Training can compensate for that, but it needs to be as realistic as possible, and repeated very, very often. In stress situations, we tend to fall back more on muscle memory than conscious thought, so it's a really good idea to have the muscle memory trained as thoroughly as can be.
|