2017 Video of the Week #19 (Difference from being TRAINED and having read a procedure!)

Every time I watch this video I think back to my days as a lifeguard and realizing that was my very first form of TRAINING.  I was a Boy Scout and was about 14-15 years old and already knew I wanted to be a rescuer and just fell in love with the intensity of my training.  It was then that I learned what “TRAINING” was all about.  For a week, 6 hours each day I had to practice the skills until as well as a teenager could master anything and each night I was required to read chapter after chapter by flashlight of my rescue manual.  I am now going on 52 and I can remember that week, each day, each class, like it was yesterday.  No as I watch these young men and women spring into action it is OBVIOUS they did more than read a procedure… they too were trained on how to rescue, stabilize, package, and care for that young lady.  So the next time someone tries to convince us that reading a procedure is “training”, think to how these young men and women responded!

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