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mrbatchelor · March 8, 2013, 12:50 AM

I've never been in a gunfight. Hope I never am. But I have been in exactly one real shipboard emergency in the the service when I was a young Buck. An electrical fire in a machinery room.

You know what we did? We did everything exactly like we did in the umpteen hundred drills we had done for months before. Nobody "thought" about anything. It just happened, and everything worked out in just a few minutes. Could have been worse, but it wasn't. Stupid, repetative, boring training worked. I have first hand proof.

Do I train enough? No. And I have all the excuses. But I know that training works.

March 8, 2013, 12:50 AM	#26
mrbatchelor Senior Member Join Date: April 18, 2010 Location: South Carolina Posts: 237	Re: Why do some people look behind them.... I've never been in a gunfight. Hope I never am. But I have been in exactly one real shipboard emergency in the the service when I was a young Buck. An electrical fire in a machinery room. You know what we did? We did everything exactly like we did in the umpteen hundred drills we had done for months before. Nobody "thought" about anything. It just happened, and everything worked out in just a few minutes. Could have been worse, but it wasn't. Stupid, repetative, boring training worked. I have first hand proof. Do I train enough? No. And I have all the excuses. But I know that training works. Last edited by mrbatchelor; March 8, 2013 at 12:56 AM.