WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU?

In all of my years of teaching, and all of the disciplines I instruct, one of the most common things I hear are stories of why people take training. This includes traumatic injuries that happened to family members, happen in front of a student, or a major event that happens around the world which is publicized by TV, the press and other media. But the recent events, including the injury sustained by Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills, and famous actor, Jeremy Renner, got me thinking: WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU?

Living the majority of my life in a big city setting, just outside of Washington, D.C., with high crime areas all around, as well as getting a close view of violence and different mechanisms of injuries from joining the fire department in Prince George's County, Maryland at the age of 16. This radically changed my outlook on life, and I quickly learned what it would take for me to know I needed training to be able to handle any situation that presented itself around me.

I can think back to key events during my life, like the shooter at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., in 2013; the Hamilton Place Mall active shooting and the military recruiting center shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee in mid 2010's; or the famous D.C. Sniper shootings that made me zig zag home from the bus. These are all things that changed my outlook on different types of threat and injury scenarios.

So if we really start to look at this past year in 2022, some of the things you'll see are pretty crazy. The amount of active shooter incidents in the United States are astronomical. The amount of fatal accidents and injuries are higher than ever, even January 2, 2023, when Jeremy Renner ran over himself in a freak accident using a snow plow machine, and Damar Hamlin suffering a Cardiac medical emergency in front of millions of people watching on TV and everyone in that stadium, including his parents.

I saw many posts in the past few days saying how crazy life is and they can end at any second, but even the majority of the same people saying these things have no idea how to do CPR, stop the bleed, or even know how to survive an active threat situation.

When I teach active threat survival classes, through the A.L.I.V.E. active shooter survival program, the feedback has always been: I don't know why I waited this long to take this training. That's the same feedback we get when teaching CPR and first aid, and how to stop emergency bleeding through stop the bleed.

So I want you to sit and think, wherever you are right now, if an emergency threat or injury occurred do you know what to do? Would you know how to put a tourniquet on like Jeremy Renner's neighbor did while he was losing excessive amounts of blood, or would you know how to start CPR like they did in the middle of the Cincinnati Bengals stadium, or what to do if you were at work or school and someone started shooting in the lobby/hallway. If the answer is no, let this past year and the few days of 2023 be YOUR WHY!

Don't wait until something happens close to you involving your family, friends, or loved ones, to realize you don't know how to save them or survive the situation yourself.

Whether you use my company, Discreet Security Services and Investigations, or any of the many professional training companies around the country and world, I implore you to receive, at minimum, training in CPR, first aid, stop the bleed, active shooter survival to give your a fighting chance.

We teach A.L.I.V.E. Active Shooter Survival courses that prepare you for how to recognize warning signs to prevent active threats, and how to increase your survival chances if an active threat situation does occur. We also teach the official Stop The Bleed course, and the American Heart Association CPR/AED, First Aid, and other classes.

At the end of the day, I want you to find YOUR WHY before it's an I WISH I WOULD HAVE..... Just remember this last saying that I use when teaching a few of our classes.....

When seconds count, help is normally minutes away! You have to be able to survive or help someone survive, until they arrive!

Information about our company and courses offered can be found online at www.dssimd.com.