Marines Have This Training Thing Right

The Marines have it right on this one ...think about it..

Life for a first responder is about patience, discipline, and training. It seems to be the three legged stool that holds great accomplishments up; take away a leg and greatness is not achieved. Discipline is the long road to mastery. Discipline is what keeps us committed to the task of learning. The enemy of discipline is ego, impatience, frustration and, laziness. It could be said that we should stop calling this a craft, and call it a discipline, because we are all forever students if we do things the right way. The discipline we are concerned with is the dedication to learning, training, and preparing. Training should be at forefront of all discipline! Practice, muscle memory of perfect practice makes perfect! Training overlaps with information, but it is the physical application of ideas. Training commits ideas to muscle memory, and reaffirms the validity of ideas; if it doesn’t work in training it probably won’t work too well in any job! Training needs to have multiple levels of intensity! Slow in beginning but speed it up to full speed once the initial core is learned to weed out the mistakes and make it as real as possible in a training atmosphere! 

The biggest mistake I see is rushing through the foundation. Anything built on a thin and shoddy foundation is weak, and susceptible to crumbling. You have to start slow and build upon the foundation before full intensity. But training is what makes us on the streets as a first responder...training is what will keep you alive! Build your training and make it mandatory ...make it real! For more information [email protected] we make it real and easy to remember for the day you need it.