The military covers a lot of territory. Depending on job and unit, you may never touch a pistol. You may be issued one and qualified as an "expert" but really have only the barest idea of how to effectively use a pistol **raises hand** and not know what you don't know until you see other people doing it right or get outside training. Or, you could be highly trained and extremely proficient. It just depends.
Particularly Cold War era military, but again based on job and unit, there was nearly zero training on recognizing body language, pre-attack indicators, etc. The military has since realized that deficiency in training as it's incredibly helpful in insurgency combat, with initiatives like the Combat Hunter program. That translates EXTREMELY well into street survival, as pre-attack indicators can alert you to a mugging before it kicks off just as easily as it can alert you to a suicide bomber before he detonates.
There are also things unique to the military that do not translate well when you are not in a small unit, are using a completely different set of rules as far as RoE, etc.
As such, while I learned many valuable things in the military, I would have been ill advised to stop my training there. I believe I've learned far more in terms of street encounters due to my LE training, LE experience (such as taking armed suspects at gun point and continuously evaluating shoot/no-shoot), and keeping accounts of civilian vs criminal encounters through my work than I ever learned in the military.
There are many, many people who have something to teach me. The trick is finding those people who are experts, who are experienced, and who stay in their lane of expertise.
Pretty much the cost prevents me from getting specific firearm training. The training itself is a few hundred bucks plus the amount of ammo required. Neither of which I'm complaining about because the training is worth it and you can't really get the training without sending rounds downrange. It's just not in the budget at the moment.
Pretty much the cost prevents me from getting specific firearm training. The training itself is a few hundred bucks plus the amount of ammo required. Neither of which I'm complaining about because the training is worth it and you can't really get the training without sending rounds downrange. It's just not in the budget at the moment.