After my initial thoughts about the White Settlement church shooting, a list of other relevant factors came to mind. The conversation about the incident mostly has centered around the ability to make a 12-15 yard head shot. The tactical factors have largely been ignored or overlooked. That’s a Strategic Mistake.
Here’s my list for those wishing to do their own research and METT-TC analysis.
- Efforts of a group v. team
- Definition and roles of ‘[physical] Security’
- Contact and Cover
- Individual nature of most training
- Defeat in detail
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeat_in_detail
- previous POlice incidents
- Newhall
- Miami
- Medina, North Dakota
- Paseo
- Complications of coordinated action for both sides
- Incident recognition
- Lesson – failure of tactics not marksmanship
- Coordinated response
- Bad lessons learned from visual media
- Most peoples’ training comes from TV and movies – Tom Givens of Rangemaster https://rangemaster.com/
- Competence is not dramatic, no one is going to pay to see that – Brian Hill of The Complete Combatant http://www.thecompletecombatant.com/
- Bad lessons learned from visual media
- Discipline
- Downrange nature of the problem
- Parishioners moving
- Inactivity not necessarily a bad thing
- No Counter-Murder Operator wants a bunch of moving non-threats cluttering up his field of fire
- Deception in tactical situations
- L-shaped engagement
- Positioning
- Frugal nature of church expenditure in regard to training
- Unpleasant realities
My thoughts and commentary will be a series on my Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/TacticalProfessor over the next week or so.
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