"Log Jam", the result of too many techniques.

[CHEMICAL]

the thing about tactics or techniques is that they need to be practiced to the point where they become second nature, and they need to be deployed with strategy and no second thought. if you have to think about what tactic or technique to use, you havent practiced enough.

[mercop]

That is why we teach principles not techniques. It is easy to adapt principles to any situation. When you miss a step of a technique, people fixate, freeze and die.- George

[King 5.45]

One that some of you may not be old enough to have ever heard of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhall_massacre

From what I remember, there was also one back then (and it might have been Newhall, the Wiki entry makes no mention of it) where a rookie was found dead and clutching a handful of empty brass, because the range rules had been more firmly enforced for the benefit of the rangemaster than the rules of survival had been emphasized for the recruits. Thank God for HKS ...

[mercop]

The Newhall Incident and the Onion Field are full of lessons.

[djturnz]

My DT instructor taught us that we should think of the force continuum as "vertical decision making" not lateral. It's not "either this, or that, it should be do this, then that"

If that makes sense.

[FUNDAMENTALS]

The Newhall Incident changed the California Highway Patrol method of
Firearms Training as well as assignment of officers recently assigned to
patrol. The Officers that were killed in the incident were "Rookies" and
were assigned to 11-7 shift. Also in that incident a "Civilian" came on the
scene and was able to handle the 12 Gauge Shotgun that one of the
CHP officers was unable to do before being shot to death. The other
incident that changed training and tactics, was the FBI Miami Shoot Out.
Hard Lessons at a heavy cost in lives. Know that there is no substitute
for training, especially that which can save your life. Have a plan and
execute it to employ Deadly Force in the worst case, if you do not,
your going to die or be seriously injured.