Pick187
12-23-2009, 02:05 PM
We are just months away from implementing airsoft into our training. My proposal is to have 4 to 6 officers per training session once a month. Within a year every officer will have gone thru the training. The first years training will be shooting drills in the morning and then force on force scenario training in the afternoon. The following year, mix it up to something like traffic stops in the morning and building searches in the afternoon. This training WILL NOT take any time away from our current firearm training. Airsoft does not replace actually throwing lead down range. I plan on posting my drills on here for many reasons. I want people to pick it apart and show me flaws or what could be changed for the better.
Drill # 2 the box drill.
The officer is armed with airsoft at the low ready with thirteen rounds. The officer has two spare magazines in his mag pouch with twelve rounds in each. This is standard street load. The officer has a target to the front, one to the rear, and one to each side of him. Depending on the room there should plenty of distance from the officer to each target. The targets are refrigerator boxes like explained in my airsoft target thread, http://www.rbta.net/forum/showthread.php?t=229 Each target is a “Q” target like we use for qualification. It will have a picture of a knife taped to it to indicate the target is armed with a knife. Each target will be marked differently. One target might have a number 1 on it along with a yellow triangle while the other one might be marked with a number 2 with a red square and so on.
The officer will be given a number, shape, or color and the officer must turn to the appropriate target with that number, shape, or color and engage one round. This will continue till the officer runs out and reloads the next magazine. After the first reload it will speed up and the officer will be instructed to engage it target with a hammer (two quick rounds). After the next reload the officer will be instructed to engage each target with a failure drill (two to the body and one to the head).
While the officer is waiting for the command for the next target they should be scanning their head from left to right looking for threats (make sure they are checking their six!). This drill is to get the officer moving, thinking, and engaging in a 360 degree world (something that can’t be done on a square range with live ammo.). As an instructor we need to make sure the officer is using proper foot work so they don’t trip and fall. We also need to ensure that they move their eyes to the target before they bring their gun on target. If they move their gun on target at the same time they will almost always over shoot their target and it will take precious time to get the gun back on target.
In the real world and force is used we usually make witnesses, either witnesses for us or witnesses for the suspect. To make witnesses for us we must verbally engage when possible making sure our commands are clear and can be heard for a distance. This way the witnesses could say that the officer told the guy to drop the knife or he was going to shoot and the guy didn’t. This is something that is hard to do in “the heat of battle”. So I try to have my guys yell out the commands as much as possible in training. In this drill the target is armed with a knife so I will have the students continually tell them to drop the knife.
Drill # 2 the box drill.
The officer is armed with airsoft at the low ready with thirteen rounds. The officer has two spare magazines in his mag pouch with twelve rounds in each. This is standard street load. The officer has a target to the front, one to the rear, and one to each side of him. Depending on the room there should plenty of distance from the officer to each target. The targets are refrigerator boxes like explained in my airsoft target thread, http://www.rbta.net/forum/showthread.php?t=229 Each target is a “Q” target like we use for qualification. It will have a picture of a knife taped to it to indicate the target is armed with a knife. Each target will be marked differently. One target might have a number 1 on it along with a yellow triangle while the other one might be marked with a number 2 with a red square and so on.
The officer will be given a number, shape, or color and the officer must turn to the appropriate target with that number, shape, or color and engage one round. This will continue till the officer runs out and reloads the next magazine. After the first reload it will speed up and the officer will be instructed to engage it target with a hammer (two quick rounds). After the next reload the officer will be instructed to engage each target with a failure drill (two to the body and one to the head).
While the officer is waiting for the command for the next target they should be scanning their head from left to right looking for threats (make sure they are checking their six!). This drill is to get the officer moving, thinking, and engaging in a 360 degree world (something that can’t be done on a square range with live ammo.). As an instructor we need to make sure the officer is using proper foot work so they don’t trip and fall. We also need to ensure that they move their eyes to the target before they bring their gun on target. If they move their gun on target at the same time they will almost always over shoot their target and it will take precious time to get the gun back on target.
In the real world and force is used we usually make witnesses, either witnesses for us or witnesses for the suspect. To make witnesses for us we must verbally engage when possible making sure our commands are clear and can be heard for a distance. This way the witnesses could say that the officer told the guy to drop the knife or he was going to shoot and the guy didn’t. This is something that is hard to do in “the heat of battle”. So I try to have my guys yell out the commands as much as possible in training. In this drill the target is armed with a knife so I will have the students continually tell them to drop the knife.