Randomness of Odyssey

Active Shooter Training

Yeah, I know it's been awhile....

I've been really busy lately but I thought I'd share with you guys what I did today.

This morning after I drank some coffee I was dancing in the kitchen with my explorer uniform on. My sister said that she would tell everyone (friends) what I was doing at 5:30 in the morning. Lol

We helped the officers train at the middle, high, and then elementary school. The first part of it 4 explorers (including me) were sitting in the cafeteria. The shooter (an explorer) was waiting with an instructor on getting word when he should start shooting at us.

They gave us ear protection (little orange foam things that you put in your ear) and most of the time eye protection especially if we were the shooter or near the shooter. The shooters, which were 3 of them most of the time, we're using mostly blank rounds which look real but don't shoot anything, or one of them had a blue training gun that didn't shoot anything. The shooter just yelled, "Bang!" or pounded on the lockers. The officers had airsoft guns, which does hurt when you get hit.

First time I think I would have got hit but didn't realize it until afterward.

Second time I got hit (blank rounds) I fell and acted injured.

3rd time I hid in the back of the rows on lockers but then I looked behind me and there was a shooter facing the opposite way and shooting. Then I ran around back to the cafeteria, where we started at. I found a victim slumped over on the table, so I hid behind on the stage behind the curtain. My heart was pounding because it seemed so real. Lol

Then at the high school, I was just acting injured or dead. When I was injured I might give them info on where the shooter went.

Then at the elementary school, which was a really tough building. Lots of hallways and a bad layout. An officer who was the instructor told me to really be dramatic this time.

One of the shooters was shooting me with again blank rounds. I then dropped to the ground and screamed, making it more realistic for the officers. I did that twice. Then the last time I ran at the responding officers screaming and telling them where one of the shooters went.

I'm not a screamer at all. I'm not one of those girls who would scream when they're playing outside. So it was hard acting but the shooter with a gun that was firing blank rounds at me made it easier. Lol

My dad was there because he didn't want to drive back to the house and then to the schools again because we already drove so far. He later told me that it was the loudest noises he's ever heard me make. XD

Pretty chaotic but a ton of fun!