nostatic at all...

As part of today's tour we did a training simulator which is a laserdisc system with projector and a pistol that has tracking on it to see where on the screen you shoot (a higher tech version of the stuff you see in arcades). One of the instructors demonstrated one of the video scenarios where you have to decide when/where to shoot. Then each of us did a different scenario. In mine, I was on a no-knock warrant and after the team cleared 3 rooms the bad guy came walking towards me in his underwear with his hands up. Just as he got to the doorway he made a quick motion and I fired, squeezing off 4 quick shots. It was SCARY. My pulse rate was skyrocketing. It turns out that in the scenario he had a gun taped to the wall and that's what he was going for. Before we reviewed my performance one of the instructors asked where his gun came from. I said I wasn't sure but thought it was from behind his back. The instructor asked, "would you bet your life on it?" to which I replied, "um, no." Then he asked if I thought I got the bad guy before he shot and I said I thought I did. We hit replay, and I saw him reach for the taped gun, and it turns out I shot him 0.25 seconds before he pulled his trigger. And all 4 of my shots were "kills" to his torso. Crazy stuff. I'm still shaking from it...very real. I respected law enforcement before, but these guys/gals are good.