As an Academy instructor it is not your job to weed people out. It is not your job to scream and yell at people and create huge amounts of stress at the start of the Academy to see who "has what it takes". It is not your job to crush recruits in the early part of the academy with physical exercise to "see who really wants to be there". It is your job as a trainer to teach, coach, mentor and develop the people who are in training. It is your job to give them the skills, knowledge, tactics, competence and confidence to be able to do the job they were hired to do. It is your job to … [Read more...]