MaverickNH
NES Member
A local PD in SoNH is doing Active Shooter training this week in a large building that is mostly emptied of industrial offices and manufacturing equipment but is a maze of hallways, staircases and rooms. Scenario is workplace active shooter with small groups of officers responding for first entry. Chained and locked door requires bolt cutters and sledge/hooligan to enter. Three to five shot employees in front offices (our volunteer organization).
PD trainers monitor and PD safety team double-checks entry team to be sure they have only simunition, blanks and/or blue guns. They are immediately engaged by one pistol shooter (firing blanks as PD are in uniform) with gun fight over 2-3 wounded innocents. They cuff the downed shooter and start medical on innocents when a 2nd shooter with AR15 Blank Firing Adaptor starts in - they engage and return to trauma med for wounded. Radio comms among team and HQ is live closed channel for local event only (so the whole state doesn’t respond by accident).
I was very impressed with the teams today (groups of 2, 3, 4 officers) and their trainers were complementary with a few corrections. Weakest point was trauma med - training is fair and equipment poor. Primary aim is stop the killing, secondary is aid the survivors until med help arrives. Emphasis on getting wounded to warm zones so medics can treat and transport ASAP. Not enough TQs or chest seals with 1st responders in general. They alternate between workplace simulations and schools during breaks and summer.
Quite an evolution in response from Columbine and Parkland to today. Only curiosity was that volunteers were not asked or checked for firearms. I assumed I was to be unarmed and left my pistol secured. A lot of pro-2ndA commentary from PD trainers. Very professional in every way.
PD trainers monitor and PD safety team double-checks entry team to be sure they have only simunition, blanks and/or blue guns. They are immediately engaged by one pistol shooter (firing blanks as PD are in uniform) with gun fight over 2-3 wounded innocents. They cuff the downed shooter and start medical on innocents when a 2nd shooter with AR15 Blank Firing Adaptor starts in - they engage and return to trauma med for wounded. Radio comms among team and HQ is live closed channel for local event only (so the whole state doesn’t respond by accident).
I was very impressed with the teams today (groups of 2, 3, 4 officers) and their trainers were complementary with a few corrections. Weakest point was trauma med - training is fair and equipment poor. Primary aim is stop the killing, secondary is aid the survivors until med help arrives. Emphasis on getting wounded to warm zones so medics can treat and transport ASAP. Not enough TQs or chest seals with 1st responders in general. They alternate between workplace simulations and schools during breaks and summer.
Quite an evolution in response from Columbine and Parkland to today. Only curiosity was that volunteers were not asked or checked for firearms. I assumed I was to be unarmed and left my pistol secured. A lot of pro-2ndA commentary from PD trainers. Very professional in every way.