June 2007 Winning at Night
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6/6/2007 2:55 PM
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Editor
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 100
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June 2007 Winning at Night
Most officer-involved shootings happen at night. Have you trained to fight in the dark?
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6/6/2007 8:11 PM
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yarbrough
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 70
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RE: June 2007 Winning at Night
Continually. Get around some strobes and check out your sights. Learn to manipulate your flashlight. Learn how to tuck it under a knee to reload. Learn not to light yourself from cover (light in front). Learn to distinguish a threat by providing enough light to the threat and the area beyond. Light, shoot, and move. There are a lot of training issues here, and in my opinion if you don't train to fight at night you're putting yourself in a position of disadvantage. Discover realistic expectations and problems in a training environment. Train safely.
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6/10/2007 6:09 PM
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jnc36rcpd
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 5
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RE: June 2007 Winning at Night
I attended the Surefire low-light instructor course when it was taught by the crew from Strategos. I've also attended a one-day Streamlight Academy presentation. Proper use of lights is extremely important to LEO's. Unfortunately, range limitation prevent as effective training as might be conducted.
Recently, we authorized TLR-1's for our pistols. While we qualified our officers with the lightmounts, we won't be able to use them during our next force-on-force. We have numerous 9mm Simunition barrels, but none for our .40 rail guns. I hope to ramp up the low-light live fire to make up for this deficiency.
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