My training required shouting in all of the drills. The reasoning that was given was that it was required to make sure any and all bystanders and recording devices heard you clearly so there would be evidence that you followed procedure and that they did not follow commands.
Perhaps this is now outdated with the introduction of body cams but I would bet it is still taught that way.
But that is not how people are normally trained. Normally people are trained in safe conditions where participants know they are in a training session.
You put people in unnecessary danger by putting them in an unpredictable situation. That is why training sessions are varied and thoroughly debriefed so that participants can know how what they learned in the current session can be applied at different settings.
Source, anecdotal: I’m a former life guard that had regular drills, and never entered one unknowingly.
The basic training that lasts a few weeks that involves yelling, breaking down a person only to rebuild them stronger by the end could be looked at as filtering and weeding out those who would not work well under those conditions. This is part of the interview process. Once basic training is over most move into positions without yelling.
In this case yelling was used to belittle everyone and secure more power. If you break someone down but never build them back up you have crushed people.
If we still want to turn people into killing machines than yelling is a tool to help that process.
This is absolutely par for the course in training exercises. Several reasons occur immediately. The persons involved may want to cover their butts, and report a more positive outcome. OR, the value of training for failure is very limited in value; scenarios that allow everyone to practice their skills may fit the mission goals better.
My son, while in the Army in Korea, led a 6-person team as 'insurgents' in an exercise against a company. After the scripted exercises they were allowed to do anything they wanted. Result: rear gate breached after a feint; company HQ tent blown up by 'suicide bomber' (only casualty on his side); and three quarters of the company killed by his roaming snipers. They only stopped the exercise when his 'insurgents' ran out of ammo. This exercise was of course never part of the after-action report :)
The training is largely for legal purposes. If someone needs to be fired for whatever it has to be demonstrated that they were 'trained' on the basis of that issue.
I've done combat training in one and they had rigged the whole building with an interactive surround sound system. Once the course started and we got inside the building, the trainers were playing Metallica at 120db in every room so we couldn't hear anything and had to communicate using signals only while navigating the course with fake hostages etc.
The value of training videos is on the back end. Whenever shit goes wrong, peoples' first reaction is to plead ignorance. "Oh I didn't know that, I wasn't told that." These sorts of things eliminate that excuse in a way that leaves a paper trail, making it easier to hold someone accountable if they do fuck up. It's not about making sure they know all of these things that are mostly obvious, it's about ensuring you can fire them, sue them, or defend yourself in a lawsuit if someone sues you, by eliminating their plausible deniability.
I was curious how many sessions, and how long the sessions were. A Guardian article[1] suggests the sessions were 2 hours long, once a week, and the typical total time for participants was 200 hours.
The overall process sounded a bit like something you see in military basic training, but with the additional wrinkle of the paper they made the Harvard students write beforehand...outlining their core beliefs. Drill instructors in basic training do a sort of less deep version of this. They observe people and try to induce stress with personalized yelling and screaming based on observations and some amount of data on the person (detailed "job" applications, ASVAB tests, etc).
I would say that regular drills are useful to develop reflexes and awareness in the guardian. See e.g. fire drills in office buildings to make sure everyone knows where the emergency exit is and knows to leave the building without panicking. Just make sure it’s obvious quickly enough that it’s a drill.
Can't really speak much as never been through bootcamp myself, but 3 doesn't sit well with me. There is a reason you should put your mask on a place before putting it on your 'neighbour'
This is also drilled to paramedics/policemen/firemen over here. First make sure you are well and safe, only then move to help your victims/colleagues.
Because whilst during training you should be spending 95% of your time looking out the window, the remaining 5% are spent bashing it into your head how to do an effective instrument scan and also there are parts of training where instruments get combined with the outside environment (such as learning to get a radio fix if you're lost and correlating that with what you see out the window).
Obscuring instruments is sometimes done, but that's much, much, later down the training line.
It's not a rule (that I know of), but it's a standard part of the more serious training classes. The companies I'm familiar with have been teaching it that way for 15+ years. Edited to "often"
Perhaps this is now outdated with the introduction of body cams but I would bet it is still taught that way.
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