Re:Debris field found in search for missing submersible
by dctoedt on Thursday June 22, 2023 @04:12PM
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> Real-world training for the newbies, exercise for the journeymen, and teaching moments for the experts. That alone is worth my tax dollars for keeping a robust search and rescue force.
This. When the shit hits the fan, and lives are endangered, participants in the responsive operations focus more intently, and the lessons learned seem to get imprinted more firmly, than when it's a drill; I can think of an example or two from aircraft-carrier operations Back In The Day, but it's not hard to think of other examples.
(There was a reason that when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the emergency radio transmission that went out was, "Air raid Pearl Harbor X This is no drill." [0])
I suspect the pedagogy and psychology might be related somehow to Samuel Johnson's dictum that "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
This. When the shit hits the fan, and lives are endangered, participants in the responsive operations focus more intently, and the lessons learned seem to get imprinted more firmly, than when it's a drill; I can think of an example or two from aircraft-carrier operations Back In The Day, but it's not hard to think of other examples.
(There was a reason that when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the emergency radio transmission that went out was, "Air raid Pearl Harbor X This is no drill." [0])
I suspect the pedagogy and psychology might be related somehow to Samuel Johnson's dictum that "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/0...