Judgement training?
It is where you are presented with a scenario and have to make a decision to shoot or not. Either with a sort of video game or on a shooting range with some targets being bad guys and others being innocent. And with debrief afterwards. Where you have to justify your actions.
Would you say that judgement training leads you to see guns everywhere?
No normal infantry training is normally done with a battlefield scenario so you expect everyone out there is a target. So being trained to shoot to kill
your looking for targets ,and, of course the no shoot targets are set up so they have things in their hands that might look like weapons at a glance.
tools , torches etc. Judgement training is supposed to make you think twice before pulling the trigger. It works on several occasions I nearly shot people
who under the rules of engagement I could have. I thought it better to risk being blown up than shoot someone who wasn't obeying the rules.
We had a big sign in Arabic and English slow down and approach base slowly barb wire and guns everywhere. Still people drove up everyday like maniacs
either cos they were late, or too important for the rules to apply to them.
Though when we trained with the police it was interesting. While they would see someone with a weapon enough reason to open fire. We wouldn't unless he did something threatening with it. Though we would then shoot him lots and lots of times.
