Posted: 12/10/2007 12:40:41 PM EDT
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As a firearms instructor do you or would you wear one of the exterior instructor vests(red or orange with instructor / ballistic panels inserted) that are out there?? |
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Depends on what we are doing. Usually on the range the instructors are the guys who are not in full gear. However at night or when we do SIM's training or other live fire shoothouse training or night firing, instructors will use the orange shirts or vest below. Like I said it really depends on the type of training being done. Other than that I have no desire to stick out in the crowd. 
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I have a black t-shirt with instructor on it, black bdu pants and a black patrol jacket that I wear. All the officers on the range are usually in civvies or uniform. There was talk about issuing us vests but it never happened. I sure as heck wouldn't be caught wearing a florescent orange one.. |
The shooters are in uniform with the instructors wearing street clothes. In the past, some of the instructors would get an order for screen printed shirts from a local source. Our uniform supplier started offering a red FI polo shirt, jacket, and hat. Recenty, everyone has been mandated to wear their body armor to the range so having a red vest that could be taken off and on would be convienant in the south Texas heat. |
You might if you were an instructor in a 360* live fire shoot house. Also in a SIMS environment we instructors are often in rooms watching entries etc, and we do not want operators confusing instructors for actors. We do not do basic this is the fireing line and that is downrange type of instruction. FWIW - The Orange also works very well in a jungle environment when you are doing SAR looking for missing hikers and / or looking for dead bodies. 
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Ditto. |
I do give them away. The one I wear is not the bo-bo mesh deal that hand out, but the one in the pic. Comfy, washable, not something that looks like a truckers hat. You think anyone would actually buy those things? |
You land me a job as an instructor with your Dept and I'll wear a grass skirt to work if you want!  Seriously..doing live fire I'd wear a vest for sure. Our recert is all static extended line on the shooting point with me behind the shooters. Our instructor "uniform" is more for visitors to the range so they can distinguish who is running the range. |
| I wear (as all of our instructors do) a red shirt and hat, all agents (including instructors) must, by policy, wear body armor on the range. As for the red vests I have seen some used (rarely, not many were issued) but mostly we wear the vest under the red shirt. |