Life or death situations?

Do you really ever have to time to think in one. Whether it be fast or slow? I don't know if it's ever a good idea to quickly jump in without a strategy in mind to take down who it is who's threatening you.

take out your huge-ass japanime sword and cut them.
what's the difficulty?

^^Dude, no. Some situations require you to think it out and act fast. I'm just in a life or death situation can you only act or think before you act.

Posted by djbuck1
"When the crisis happens, you will NOT rise to the occasion. You will default to the level of your training."

You young guys rarely perform military service, so you probably have never heard this. You may not even believe it.

This is why we have fire drills, and if you're lucky, active shooter training.

I have heard that quote. I used to be in AFJROTC in High School and ASI used to say that. But he said that we were running indian runs in PT. Shoot I always zipped to the front because my energy was limitless. And I can believe that. Usually when you try to be the hero it only gets ya killed and makes you look crazy but brave. In any crisis like that we could only use what we've been taught to the occasion but there will be some oddball to rise to it.

In any war you use what you've been taught and possibly even use unconventional tactics. But no one these days play the hero because the hero always dies or is impaired the rest of their life. I think in war you have to think quickly.

Posted by djbuck1
Being in reasonable shape is part of it. There was a study done post 9/11 on the qualities of survivors, and awareness of one's surroundings and the ability to visualize crises was a big part of the survivor make up.

You may not want to be a hero, but what about your date? Or your GF or wife, or your child? What if you are in a supervisory position and are responsible for others?

There are many variables, and a real life crisis (not some sort of video game crap) is often very fluid. Most people freeze, then they panic. That's just in our nature as animals. To be able to rise above that takes some fairly formidable and consistent training, mentally as well as physically.

You're asking a valid question, but I can't teach a leadership course on here. 😉

It'd be amazing if you could. I'd go into it. But now that you say that about family, yeah being a hero can be necessary if you care about your loved ones. Though in the case of panic I've had enough experience with that to not panic and freak out. The only time I did is when my friend set firecrackers off while I was sleeping and laughed about it later.

Posted by phohawk
I'll just make myself a martini and die.

This happened to me once when I was front-seat passenger in a car accident. Ok, no martini and no dying despite dangerous accident. But my driver praised my silent reaction. I did not panic. I was just curious how real life can be like movies within one second.

Semper Paratus? I'm alright with my knowledge of Latin but what does Paratus mean?

Ahh my old Science and Technical Visualization teacher in High school was in the Coast Guard from sometime in the 70's to the 80's. He enjoyed his time there and taught me a few things about the sonar and ship types. Yeah Sonar is vastly different from what I used to think.

Posted by Sn1p3r187
Do you really ever have to time to think in one. Whether it be fast or slow? I don't know if it's ever a good idea to quickly jump in without a strategy in mind to take down who it is who's threatening you.

There's a documentary on every Friday night @ 8pm (Channel LMN) called "I survived"

You'd be amazed at what some people do in situations such as what you ask about.

Posted by djbuck1
"Always Ready," the motto of the US Coast Guard.

We're you a Coastie, Juke? 🙂

😄 My Dad^^^

I breathe "always ready"...

Anyone catch "I survived" last night?
Talk about the average human's false sense of security..and the WILL to survive.

Woman gets home (her home is for sale and on the market), single mom of two teenage daughters and a five year old son. Man with satellite equip on his waist walks up and asks if he can see the house without an appointment. If she followed her FIRST gut instinct, she'd be ok.

She lets him in, starts showing her the house room by room, gets to the bathroom, and he gets her from behind choke hold with a knife to her neck. Walks her to her bedroom, plastic ties her feet together, and plastic ties her hands behind her back, leaves her sitting on edge of bed as he paces through the house. She thinks it's just a robbery.

He comes back and demands to know who else lives in the home. She tells him her three children and their ages. He waits with her for them to get home from school. He hides as they come upstairs, as they go into the mother's bedroom to see what was going on with her tied up, he comes up behind all three children, plastic ties the two teenage girls hands behind their backs, lets the crying five year old hug the mother and ties his hands behind his back. He walks them out shuts the bedroom door, and he walks each kid to their bedroom..she hears the door shut to each room. He comes back rapes the mother then tells her he has to take her out. Tries to strangle her, doesn't work. Takes his knife out slices her neck four times, then her left ear and twice in the back...SHE PLAYS DEAD.

He covers her up with a blanket and leaves the room. She can't hear because she is on her right side in a pool of blood and her left ear is gurgling with blood coming out. Yet she can see through a small arch of the blanket across the hall her five year old son laying on the bed like he was sleeping, then he comes back pours liquid throughout the hall and around her bed, and lights it up. She knew he left after that, her feet were catching on fire. She rolled to the left of the bed and off the bed to french doors leading out to deck. Unlocks the doors with her feet, rolls out to the deck while her hair is on fire, gets out, rolls down the stairs and into the pool in the backyard.

Now by this time the neighbors already called 911 from the smoke coming out of the home. A cop friend of hers runs to the back, sees her in the pool, they pull her out and she was still conscious enough to tell him who did this. She was put into an induced coma for three days. When they woke her up, the police/detectives and family were standing there. She asked again about her kids...the bastard stabbed each one of them and killed them in their rooms. To watch this woman bravely tell her story and get through something like this amazed the hell out of me. Her strength reached it's highest potential when she had to walk by this animal to testify and look him in the eye from the witness stand.

He's on death row with three counts of capital murder.

This is one of those cases where new laws should come into play and allow the parents to handle the type of death an animal like that should get. Every week they show stories like this. Many people don't realize they are currently walking with or around with animals like this.

By the way....after this show "I survived" is another show called "I survived" beyond and after.

People who died and came back to life.

Good stuff.

*beyond and back (not after)

Perfect....bored? Here are some full episodes that you can download and watch scroll to bottom of page:

http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/i-survived/299163<BR>