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warrrreagl · 11-10-2006, 03:14 AM

I've missed the last couple of weeks because of a play I was in, but Grancey has continued going. Last night was my first night back and we were allowed to use the FATS - Firearms Training System. COOL!!!!!!

It was essentially a video game with real people. A standard-issue 40-cal handgun (not a toy gun at all) has been rigged into a computer system. We used the handgun, but they also have assault rifles, shotguns, and even pepper spray hooked into the system. Then, you stand 20 ft away from a giant screen where a filmed, typical scenario is played out in front of you. You have to give verbal commands to the people on the screen and the officer running the computer can adapt the screen-people depending on your strenghths and weaknesses. There are hundreds of different scenarios and they don't do the same thing if you repeat them.

Sometimes they comply with your commands and everything works out. Sometimes they don't and you have to shoot them. The computer tracks your shots and if you hit them they fall down but if you don't they keep shooting back at you. Then, you replay the video and it shows where all of your shots landed, and which hits were lethal and non-lethal. It also shows if you hit any innocent bystanders. Sort of like Will Smith's shooting test in Men In Black, but WAYYYYY cooler. WAYYYY cooler. Plus, it is a real gun - you have to load it and rack it, and it recoils.

I had three scenarios. 1) a suicidal lady was holding a knife to her wrist and trying to cut herself with it. I was supposed to talk her out of it without using deadly force, and I thankfully did not shoot her. 2) I was called to a bar about a drunk and disorderly patron who ignored my commands and verbally abused me. He stood up with his beer bottle in his hand and when I told him to put it down, he threw it down, pulled out a knife, and lunged at me. I shot three times and hit him twice. 3) I was called in on a domestic disturbance and I found a man brandishing a shovel standing over another man who was curled up into a ball on the floor. He ignored me and would not put down the shovel so I shot six times and hit him with four of them. They told me that was one of their grey-area scenarios where it's iffy whether or not deadly force was necessary. I believed he was going to hurt the guy on the floor with the shovel so I shot him, and they said it was an acceptable solution. However, I hit him with my first shot and he started going down right away, but I kept shooting. So, my first shot was justified but the other three bullets I put into him got me arrested.

He told me my verbal commands sucked but my shooting was pretty good.

WAYYYY cool!

I'll let Grancey tell about her scenarios.

11-10-2006, 03:14 AM	#22 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	I've missed the last couple of weeks because of a play I was in, but Grancey has continued going. Last night was my first night back and we were allowed to use the FATS - Firearms Training System. COOL!!!!!! It was essentially a video game with real people. A standard-issue 40-cal handgun (not a toy gun at all) has been rigged into a computer system. We used the handgun, but they also have assault rifles, shotguns, and even pepper spray hooked into the system. Then, you stand 20 ft away from a giant screen where a filmed, typical scenario is played out in front of you. You have to give verbal commands to the people on the screen and the officer running the computer can adapt the screen-people depending on your strenghths and weaknesses. There are hundreds of different scenarios and they don't do the same thing if you repeat them. Sometimes they comply with your commands and everything works out. Sometimes they don't and you have to shoot them. The computer tracks your shots and if you hit them they fall down but if you don't they keep shooting back at you. Then, you replay the video and it shows where all of your shots landed, and which hits were lethal and non-lethal. It also shows if you hit any innocent bystanders. Sort of like Will Smith's shooting test in Men In Black, but WAYYYYY cooler. WAYYYY cooler. Plus, it is a real gun - you have to load it and rack it, and it recoils. I had three scenarios. 1) a suicidal lady was holding a knife to her wrist and trying to cut herself with it. I was supposed to talk her out of it without using deadly force, and I thankfully did not shoot her. 2) I was called to a bar about a drunk and disorderly patron who ignored my commands and verbally abused me. He stood up with his beer bottle in his hand and when I told him to put it down, he threw it down, pulled out a knife, and lunged at me. I shot three times and hit him twice. 3) I was called in on a domestic disturbance and I found a man brandishing a shovel standing over another man who was curled up into a ball on the floor. He ignored me and would not put down the shovel so I shot six times and hit him with four of them. They told me that was one of their grey-area scenarios where it's iffy whether or not deadly force was necessary. I believed he was going to hurt the guy on the floor with the shovel so I shot him, and they said it was an acceptable solution. However, I hit him with my first shot and he started going down right away, but I kept shooting. So, my first shot was justified but the other three bullets I put into him got me arrested. He told me my verbal commands sucked but my shooting was pretty good. WAYYYY cool! I'll let Grancey tell about her scenarios. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed. Last edited by warrrreagl; 11-10-2006 at 03:17 AM..