The MILO simulator tests whether church security teams can communicate, de-escalate, select the proper force option, and make sound decisions under pressure.
I will also say that there needs to be a change to how non-profit grants can be used. Currently, grant funding cannot be utilized for this type of training equipment. Given the more violent challenges that church security teams face, this funding should be made available for this type of equipment. As prior law enforcement, I can speak to how much this type of training helps.
Keith, this is the system I use as I travel to train church safety teams. As you can see, it’s an incredible system that provides realistic, scenario-based training and challenges team members to make critical decisions under pressure.
I truly believe God has led me to use this as a ministry. Everyone who has gone through the training has walked away saying how much they learned—especially about their decision-making, situational awareness, and how they would respond in a real-life situation.
I also took a chapter out of your playbook: I’ve made this a completely free ministry. I believe God has blessed me with the equipment, experience, and opportunity to do this, and I want to use those blessings to help churches better prepare and protect the people God has entrusted to them.
Thank you for all you do and for keeping me focused on such a great ministry!
Looks good. I just wish that "less than lethal" and de-escalation options were emphasized more. Use of a firearm brings so many issues to the table if used unnecessarily.
Simulation training can be an amazing tool to prepare for otherwise unthinkable situations. If you can think through it in "real time" in simulation, then in any real situation, you have a serious advantage.
I've been training on a simulator every week for over a year at SimShot, and I can see serious progress in how I react in simulation - and this is applicable to real life.
I love the idea of training with your own firearm in their simulator.
At the end, you show their system for live fire - very cool, but I can't even imagine how much that would cost.
Having seen training in these simulators for Federal and Posse work, I cannot recommend this training higher. In PHX, we had a local news station that was bad-mouthing cops for deadly force decisions. The PHX PD invited the news team into the shooting trainer for a series of potential threats. Both the on-air talent and one of the assistants got their opportunity to engage potential threats. After that training, their whole coverage of this topic changed. They saw the split second decision window officers face routinely. And they both shot their innocent victims as a result of bad decisions they themselves made.
May God help each and every one of us should our number come up.
I took simulator training some years ago when I lived in a more densely populated area. It was illuminating, esp when wearing a shock vest when one of the bad guys "shot" you. My current low-density rural area has no simulator studio training opportunities, unfortunately.
A very similar system is available for significantly cheaper. The smokeless range: https://smokelessrange.com/
I first came to know this system via Warrior Poet Society (there is a youtube video on this system on his channel): https://youtu.be/cnfAe2rErqQ?si=73JDuFRB841sBYn4
I will also say that there needs to be a change to how non-profit grants can be used. Currently, grant funding cannot be utilized for this type of training equipment. Given the more violent challenges that church security teams face, this funding should be made available for this type of equipment. As prior law enforcement, I can speak to how much this type of training helps.
Our Security Team participates in two simulator sessions each year. Great training!
Keith, this is the system I use as I travel to train church safety teams. As you can see, it’s an incredible system that provides realistic, scenario-based training and challenges team members to make critical decisions under pressure.
I truly believe God has led me to use this as a ministry. Everyone who has gone through the training has walked away saying how much they learned—especially about their decision-making, situational awareness, and how they would respond in a real-life situation.
I also took a chapter out of your playbook: I’ve made this a completely free ministry. I believe God has blessed me with the equipment, experience, and opportunity to do this, and I want to use those blessings to help churches better prepare and protect the people God has entrusted to them.
Thank you for all you do and for keeping me focused on such a great ministry!
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I had the opportunity to use a Milo system when they first came out. It was a great experience.
Looks good. I just wish that "less than lethal" and de-escalation options were emphasized more. Use of a firearm brings so many issues to the table if used unnecessarily.
We have simshots in meridian idaho
this looks like a great training tool
At our range where I live they have a MILO range. The gun shop is christian based and has a variety of different traing.
Simulation training can be an amazing tool to prepare for otherwise unthinkable situations. If you can think through it in "real time" in simulation, then in any real situation, you have a serious advantage.
I've been training on a simulator every week for over a year at SimShot, and I can see serious progress in how I react in simulation - and this is applicable to real life.
I love the idea of training with your own firearm in their simulator.
At the end, you show their system for live fire - very cool, but I can't even imagine how much that would cost.
Having seen training in these simulators for Federal and Posse work, I cannot recommend this training higher. In PHX, we had a local news station that was bad-mouthing cops for deadly force decisions. The PHX PD invited the news team into the shooting trainer for a series of potential threats. Both the on-air talent and one of the assistants got their opportunity to engage potential threats. After that training, their whole coverage of this topic changed. They saw the split second decision window officers face routinely. And they both shot their innocent victims as a result of bad decisions they themselves made.
May God help each and every one of us should our number come up.
I took simulator training some years ago when I lived in a more densely populated area. It was illuminating, esp when wearing a shock vest when one of the bad guys "shot" you. My current low-density rural area has no simulator studio training opportunities, unfortunately.
Is it just one senerio or can it duplicate different church areas
There are literally thousands of scenarios.