Situational Awareness...The Most Important Tool
One of the most important habits for people to work on is their ability to be aware of surroundings at all times. Whether at work, driving your car or simply relaxing at home, staying cognitive of your outside environment can be a key to success and even a matter of survival. The term used to describe this phenomenon is situational awareness. Depending on the application situational awareness is definable in many ways. In this episode of Trigger Discipline we’re discussing situational awareness and how it applies to concealed firearm carriers. To help us explain situational awareness in more depth, we’ve brought Jonathan Terry a certified NRA and CCW instructor on as a guest.
John Terry is an Army qualified Ranger and Army Sniper with numerous other qualifications, deployed to Iraq between 2005 and 2007 and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. He’s performed numerous protective details, body guard and sensitive site security detail work both abroad and stateside.
Currently he works as a part time instructor at 88 Tactical Range and Readiness Center. Here he teaches self-defense, handgun and carbine classes each with different level of complexity. He also teaches the Nebraska State approved CCW class. When not teaching, he’s performing private in home and corporate safety and security assessments. He also works to develop safety and security policies and is involved in personal high risk mitigation consulting.
Topics and Questions Addressed in this Episode:
How do you define situational awareness?
Why is situational awareness important in your everyday life?
Is situational awareness inherited or can it be learned?
How to hone your situational awareness skills?
How to combat stigma related to situational awareness?
How to maintain situational awareness in today’s world of over stimulation and complacency?
What are Cooper’s Levels of Awareness?
Is it okay to relax and how you can decompress?
Is profiling okay?
Why is planning important?
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