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.
There are more humane ways to train an army than to make them think of situations where someone is trying to kill them, but... if that comes at the expense of worse training (and therefore actual higher likelihood of death) then it doesn't do anyone favors.
The fact that so many people fell for this test means there's something (obviously!) around this scenario that makes it particularly sensitive and mistake-prone for people. Your IT department may chose to avoid it, but people trying to phish you, won't.
I've done various bits of training over the years. My company provides security for NGOs, journalists and activists all over the world. It's an unfortunate part of the job that this sort of stuff happens to a lot of the people we work with.
The Bootcamp training at FB explicitly mentions that such things are not a fire-able offense - the attitude is around learning - if you managed to bring everything down, let’s learn together how you managed to do this… :)
Training is training, and it's all beneficial. And a good portion of my training has been in trauma care, medical response, and techniques. It resulted in my getting my EMT license, though I never used it. It all falls under "harder to kill".
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Perhaps this is now outdated with the introduction of body cams but I would bet it is still taught that way.
Good point. If I have to make an analogy it seems like putting a person not physically suited for the military into a strict military 10-day brutal survival bootcamp. They need to be more careful with this indeed.
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.
"... took the combined forces combat casualty care course, and have done a few trauma rotations in inner-city ERs (New Orleans and Norfolk) ..."
Interesting read. Knowing "how" to react and "reacting" in a appropriate, timely manner in a chaotic environment is a big jump even with the right kind of practice (as opposed to fake practice: http://bootload.posterous.com/through-my-eyes-fake-practice ) especially at the first response end. How do you train for the gap between working in calm controlled environments to chaotic ones?
#1 feeds into #3-- How confident are your rank and file going to be when the "training" guns fail regularly. Also there is something to be said for training with the exact same weapon you plan to use in the field.
You are supposed to get training when dealing with anything different and dangerous. Say you rock climb for the first time... and the instructor talks to you for 10 minutes about various stuff and somewhere in the middle he says: "and make sure to check that you can't see 'danger' written on the clasp of the harness, you may fall if it's not secured properly". You have lots of stuff to think about... your posture, the grip, the path you want to take... in a group of 10 people, is it really that unlikely that one will simply forget?
That's why the first couple of times somebody more experienced will check everything about your harness.
Modern training techniques focus heavily, almost pathologically, on maintaining Officer safety and controlling the situation. Training techniques, like the Tueller Drill reinforce the notion that everyone is a threat and should be treating accordingly.
There is very little training on de-escalation as it's incompatible with Officer safety and often requires an Officer to relinquish control of a situation. And unfortunately when dealing with people who have mental health issues, you're often not in control of the situation and neither are they.
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.
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.
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