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About On Training: Volume 1
Product Description Former naval officer and certified law enforcement firearms instructor Dustin Salomon has spent years advocating for major structural changes in firearms, use-of-force, and other tactical training. In this edited collection of essays, he tears away the curtain and shines an illuminating light into the dark recesses of this often discussed, but little understood, industry. On Training exposes a series of serious, structural flaws that have plagued military, law enforcement, and security training for decades. The book's primary focus is on the armed professions; however, it will benefit trainers in any firearms discipline, as well as those in other vocations that require skillful performance and expert decision-making in high consequence settings. This is also a must read for anyone who wants to understand the underlying issues that lead to substandard police performance and excessive use-of-force, as well as a clear path forward to fix them. Review A guide offers a radical reconsideration of arms training coupled with a discussion of bias in law enforcement. Salomon makes the provocative argument that a thoughtless fidelity to training standards has become a liability in the cosmos of armed professions, including law enforcement and the military: "We should get rid of the notion that standards, in and of themselves, either comprise training or should be the objective of training." Instead of preparing for "real-world performance," shooters practice for an examination that is as arbitrary as it is inefficient. At the heart of the problem is limited resources--firing ranges are scarce and ammunition is expensive--and the fact that fears of liability result in a dearth of qualified instructors. Trainers are "deathly afraid" of potentially lethal accidents. The author recommends an approach, articulated at length in Salomon's previous work, Building Shooters (2016), based on the "architecture and function of the human brain." According to the author, there are three basic memory systems for human beings: short-term memory, long-term declarative memory, and long-term procedural memory. Only the last of these is accessed during times of intense stress, Salomon asserts, and so any training method must focus on this particular storehouse of information. In this series opener, the author's expertise in arms training is beyond reproach, and his knowledge of the relevant literature on neuroscience is impressive, especially for a layperson. In addition, he draws intriguing--and timely--implications from the same neuroscience regarding debates about police bias that are both sober and thoughtful. And his prose is lucidly blunt and snappy: "Real-world events vary in innumerable ways, and the only consistent performance metric is who is still vertical after the fact." This is a well-researched introduction to a complex set of issues, and given the contemporary debates regarding policing, the work may even interest general readers. A concise and expert primer on arms training. -Kirkus Reviews
