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Have you learned how to return fire from disadvantaged positions if wounded? Here, LFI-II students go through one of several such drills.

Ambush waiting! The Beamhit system uses guns modified to non-lethal function and vests to carry the sensors which register only stopping hits.

When you teach something, it forces you to see the forest for the trees. I can remember taking classes in things I didn’t care about, but needed the course credit for. It was as if my mind was a tape recorder that held the information long enough to play it back on the final exam, and then erased the tape once the chore was done. That wasn’t “life learning,” and I regret it now. There were times when I took a class just for myself, saw something I liked, kept it, but didn’t really get into the details of why I did it that way. If we don’t understand why we’re doing what we’re doing, even if it works for us, we don’t truly command the skill. I regret those learning experiences now, too.

I learned that I didn’t really command a body of knowledge until I had been certified to teach it. “Hey, wait a minute, people are going to be asking me why we do it this way, and why we don’t use technique X instead? I have to explain that? Hey, Coach, brief me on that one more time…”