Training Under Physical Stress

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The best simunitions force-on-force exercises are conducted with shirts off, as the hero mentality with the pads and protective gear disappears real quick. There was a guy who owned and ran a range complex outside the Bragg area that used to do this when he saw guys doing things that they normally wouldn't do under fire.

I've witnessed certain units specifically targeting exposed limbs and hands to get around this problem, when everyone was fully-kitted up. Good training-totally different than a BS MILES gear exercise. MILES will earn someone a slot in hell, whoever invented it.

I like my agencies sims training. Ours is pretty good in my opinion. When we go through the shoot houses in Quantico we aren't allowed to wear any padding, and we are also checked to make sure. We wear the face mask and throat protector only. We do wear our BDUs though, and no one volunteers to go through it in a t-shirt!LOL.

I did shoot the living dog snot out of one of our instructors who was crazy enough to jump out at us with two glocks blazing in some kinda weird Hollywood move once. He was only wearing a polo shirt and some royal robins, and he looked like he went through a pile of broken glass with hornets in it after we stopped shooting.LOL. I actually felt bad for him once I saw how bad he got pasted. His arms were shredded and his chest and back were really bad. I get so wound up doing that stuff that I couldn't get off the trigger soon enough. He was close when he popped out, and I shot him 11 times before he could make himself fall all the way down. My supe was up front with me and he shot him three times too. We had to count the remaining rounds in our mags to figure it out.