This occurred in Reno, involving two Reno PD LEO's, a Sgt and an Officer. The Sgt made contact with several armed males and a shootout ensued. The Sgt made good hits, but as often occurs in gunfights, was shot himself. He did not have a tourniquet on his person. A backup officer armed with a rifle engaged both the armed males and then ran over to the downed Sgt to render aid, he also did not have a tourniquet on his person. It was several responsible armed citizens came to the rescue. It is difficult to tell from the video but it was actually a belt that was provided to the down Sgt and applied by one of the citizens. I initially believed it may have been an RMT, but it was not.
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Jan 11, 2023End of Year Thoughts: Burn the Right Reps
Dec 31, 2022Looking back at 2022, what comes immediately to mind is a body of water reflecting back at me, myself in real-time but not myself. A mirror image that is me but is not me, my clone, from just moments before. This is the person to whom every single day of training, mindset development, endless mental exercise, and work are devoted to overcoming, an adversary who will be present for the remainder of my life. My true nemesis.
Maple Leaf 5x Slide for Glock
Nov 7, 2022
The guys at Maple Leaf Firearms sent me this 5x Glock 19 Slide for T&E and after having about 1500 rounds through the slide, it's time for a post comparing it to an OEM G19 Gen 5 slide.
Both slides have rear grooves but the 5x has more and they are aggressive in their design. This is a very noticeable feature when you are using the rear to rack the gun, pinch, or slingshot methods.
Macro shot, you can see the direction of the cuts, very much purposefully designed.
Tourniquet Carry and Application: Case Analysis
Oct 20, 2022
Check out the video on the @vdevelopmentgroup IG page, below. Original (full length video) posted on @officer__involved IG page.
What is the issue here? The officer did not know how to apply a tourniquet, the tourniquet he did apply was ineffectively applied, and he was carrying a tourniquet still in its plastic wrapping. Lots of serious issues to unpack here.
First and foremost, if you do not know how to apply a tourniquet, your agency failed at training you, your supervisor failed at training you, and you failed at training for reality. The tourniquet can also fail at being required to be applied a certain way in order to work properly. You may believe this is not the case, but it clearly is here. The majority of windlass tourniquets are completely unforgiving when it comes to an application under stress. You either apply them properly or they do not work, there is no middle ground. This is one of the (many) reasons why I default to the Ratcheting Medical Tourniquet (RMT) (links to vdev.group). I have written a bunch of different articles and posts about the RMT, and at this point, if you are not carrying one in any capacity (off/on duty, EDC, vehicle, etc) you are setting yourself up for failure. You should be carrying one, you should be training with one, you should be training other people with one, your kids, your family members, everyone. There are absolutely zero excuses at this point.
If the tourniquet you are issued, or you buy, is still in the plastic, and you are going to carry that tourniquet in any type of first-line kit (meaning deployable from a belt or vest to immediately affect a situation, like a blade, gun, etc) you should always make sure it is removed from its wrapping. The tourniquet should be able to be durable enough to survive life without plastic wrapping in real-world applications for at least two years. The RMT does this for at least five, but you'll likely replace it within four and use it as a dedicated training tourniquet, or move it down the line into your bag for second or third-line use.
You must train with the tourniquet you carry every day. That means deploying it and applying it yourself, and others (in a demo situation, with their consent of course), so that you can show that it is very easy to do and you can burn the good reps training appropriately. If you do not do this, you will react as this undertrained officer did while in a stressful situation, in condition black. Meaning you will not do what you want to do because you never trained to do it properly.
Train to win, not train to fail.
Air Fresheners
Sep 9, 2022
So V Development Group decided to do something fun, they have three different air fresheners they just dropped. St. Michael in the coffee smell for those midnight shift cops, a V Logo that has that new car smell, and a Choco Taco that has a chocolate smell because we will not be trodden on!
Details of the Maple Leaf 5X Slide
Aug 3, 2022Some more detailed shots of the Maple Leaf LLC 5X Gen5 G19 Slide they sent me that was specifically cut for the Steiner MPS.