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These are some FOF Simunition scenarios I have been in. The scenarios are interactive in that there is a role player(s) and you can talk to any of them. There can be from one to four people involved besides yourself. The settings, i.e. buildings, rooms, etc. are set up to support the scenario.
Altogether these are long but I’ve arranged them in short episodes so you can read as many as you like.
Scenario 1:
I’m in a restaurant and leave the table and go to the restroom. From the restroom I hear yelling, and sneak a peak. Dilemma: a guy with a gun is threatening to kill a cook in the kitchen. The customers are down on their knees with their hands in the air. I’m armed, so do I intervene? We’ve discussed this before, but I decide to shoot the BG. I happen to be using a Glock which was my choice for the drill. I sight, press and click; the Simuntion’s round failed. Rack, sight, press, then click – again. I look at my instructor, he shrugs, which meant, don’t look me, you got your self into this. So I rack, sight, press and click. What am I doing wrong? Rack, sight, press, click. Repeat; finally slide locks back. As I start to throw the now empty gun, the instructor calls time out. We reload and start again. This time I shoot the BG and feel a sting on my wrist and realize I’ve been shot but not by the BG. I pivot to my right and see one of the “customers” with a gun. I did a rapid four shot burst and had four hits in less than a second. The lesson I learned: there’s probably a tail gunner, dummy.
Scenario 2:
I drive up to my office building and see a car recklessly parked, that belongs to an employee that was recently fired. Inside I hear yelling and realize this guy has likely killed somebody. I say my solution is call 911. My instructor says fine, but handle the problem. I pie the corner and see the BG has cut a guys throat and is ranting. From my cover position, I used commands to get him to drop the knife and get on his knees with his back to me and his hands in the air. So realizing he is down an unarmed, I move around the corner and half way down the hall. He starts saying it’s not his fault and gets up. I back up, and command him to get back down. He seems confused, distraught, is jabbering, and pacing in small circles well away from me. I watch him to make sure he doesn’t go for the knife he dropped, when he reaches up on a refrigerator and grabs something and wheels around. It’s a gun! So we shoot each other! The lesson I learned: you left your cover, dummy.
Scenario 3:
I come home and find the door jimmied. Knowing my wife is inside and may be in imminent danger I call 911 – SOP and then go in. So with gun drawn, I pie a corner and sure enough, there’s the BG standing at the end of a hallway. He’s alone so I order him to “Freeze” he says “OK, OK don’t shoot” and then turns to run. You gotta be careful. This may not be the BG. He may have seen a problem and tried to help; there’s no way to know. He wasn’t armed or threatening. But the thought process was just enough hesitation for him to escape down the hall. I was at an angle to the hall so I couldn’t see down it.
So now, I have no choice but to clear my house by myself to protect my wife. Boy, this one is a nightmare of the first degree. It is clearly a no win layout. There are half-height walls, doorways such that it is impossible to clear without turning your back on an uncleared area. I mentioned to my instructor this is impossible. He said, “Some situations really suck don’t they.”
I had cleared all but one big room to my left so I started in there. I hadn’t gotten far until the instructor tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to see it wasn’t the instructor, it was the BG and instead of shooting me down like I deserved, they had the grace to spare what little self-esteem I had left. I said where’d you come from? He said “I hid in the abandoned refrigerator you passed twice. The lesson I learned: Don’t assume, check everything. Action (him suddenly running) beats reaction.
Scenario 4:
I’m in another restaurant when an angry guy comes in with a long stick (clearly a deadly weapon) yelling something about where is she. He’s threatening violence and menacing customers. I tell the guy, that I think who he’s looking for just went out back the back door. He says “Oh, yeah….” and starts out the door after her. I tell the guys in the restaurant to get out and we all take off out the door. And so it ended with me being a hero by distracting the BG, and getting all the customers out without even drawing my gun.
However, here’s what I think would have happened if I had engaged the angry man. I would have been forced to shoot him to protect myself and his dearest friend would have shot me while I was shooting the BG. The lesson I learned: sometimes there’s a better solution than a gunfight. If there’s no other way, you better be prepared to deal with the sleeper.
Scenario 5:
I’m in a mountain cabin far off in the woods and from my room I hear an guy doing some noisy things not too far from my room. I get my gun and just peek out the door to see what’s going on. I see a guy with a shotgun vandalizing and trying to find things to steal. Unfortunately he sees me. I close the door, which for the sake of the scenario, won’t lock, but I take cover behind a inside doorway. The door the BG will come in, is hinged on the side I’m on so the door will even work in my favor. After some exchanges about my billfold and the police, etc. he breaks through the door and the gunfight is on.
He only knows where I am, by where my voice was coming from as we talked through the door. Plus, I was concealed behind another door way and when he “broke” through the door, it would be positioned between him and me. He still managed to locate me and shoot me on the left elbow – the only thing that was exposed. When we looked at him, he had three little blue Simunitions marks on his chest and one on his strong hand that would have been in front of his chest because of the way he was holding the shotgun.
My instructors wanted to know why I let him in and didn’t shoot through the door. I told them I wanted to be sure of my target. They said “You had already seen him, you knew he was armed, you knew he was an imminent armed threat, and he was verbally threatening you. I said, “Yeah, but, I had lost visual contact with him and for all I knew he could have had an innocent person in front of him for shield.” That pretty much ended the discussion. The lesson I learned: In a gunfight, you could get shot. Some of my fellow students decided to leave their cabin and confront this guy. You could tell which one’s did it; they had little blue pellet marks all over them.
Scenario 6:
I’m in a van that broke down on the road. A guy pulls up in front of me, gets out of his car and walks back to my van, I stay in my van, I’ve learned a little something by now. He begins with, “Any thing I can do to help?”
I roll the driver’s side window down half way to talk to him. I tell him that help is on the way, I notified the police and they’re on the way and so is AAA. He says he’s so and so and reaches up to shake hands and I do the dumbest thing. I reach my arm out the window and shake hands with him. He could have torn my arm off but he didn’t.
He says, he’s a mechanic and he’d be glad to take a look if I’d pop the hood. Well, what have I got to lose? I’ll stay in the van and be ready for anything. He’s pokin’ around under the hood and then through the opening between the hood and body, I see him place a Glock on the radiator. He says some stuff that’s sounds angry and about that time puts a Simunitions pellet on the windshield where it looked like it would be right between my eyes. Well I shoot back but he’s already moved and we did some shooting and the drill ended. The lesson I learned: You can’t trust strangers. Action beats reaction.
Actually other than the arm out the window, I don’t see how I could have played it much differently. I stayed in the van with doors locked and windows up. If he’s gonna shoot you, you’re probably gonna get shot. But, I also discovered the very vehicle that protects you, inhibits your movements. OTOH, getting out would probably be worse. Several students tried that, one got stabbed before he could do anything.
Scenario 7:
I escaped this one without a shot and saved everyone by the way, but my fellow students decided to stay and fight and came out with literally bloody pellet marks to prove it.
You walk into a quicky stop and realize a guy has a gun and is threatening the clerk. You’re right behind him and he doesn’t even know you’re there. Customers are standing around in shock. I gather them up and leave. Each of my fellow students, as their time came, decided to engage the threat and when they did the BG and his innocent looking partner shot him. As the instructor described it later in the debriefing, “He’d never seen three guys (one GG and two BGS) standing toe to toe and shooting each other to pieces. Lesson learned: intervention is dangerous. If you get in a gunfight, up close, you're likely gonna get shot. The students that fought assumed if they shot the BG once or twice the gunfight would be over. They hadn’t counted on a backup or the BG not dying instantly, or that cover, distance, and an advantageous position should be used if they were going to engage.
Altogether these are long but I’ve arranged them in short episodes so you can read as many as you like.
Scenario 1:
I’m in a restaurant and leave the table and go to the restroom. From the restroom I hear yelling, and sneak a peak. Dilemma: a guy with a gun is threatening to kill a cook in the kitchen. The customers are down on their knees with their hands in the air. I’m armed, so do I intervene? We’ve discussed this before, but I decide to shoot the BG. I happen to be using a Glock which was my choice for the drill. I sight, press and click; the Simuntion’s round failed. Rack, sight, press, then click – again. I look at my instructor, he shrugs, which meant, don’t look me, you got your self into this. So I rack, sight, press and click. What am I doing wrong? Rack, sight, press, click. Repeat; finally slide locks back. As I start to throw the now empty gun, the instructor calls time out. We reload and start again. This time I shoot the BG and feel a sting on my wrist and realize I’ve been shot but not by the BG. I pivot to my right and see one of the “customers” with a gun. I did a rapid four shot burst and had four hits in less than a second. The lesson I learned: there’s probably a tail gunner, dummy.
Scenario 2:
I drive up to my office building and see a car recklessly parked, that belongs to an employee that was recently fired. Inside I hear yelling and realize this guy has likely killed somebody. I say my solution is call 911. My instructor says fine, but handle the problem. I pie the corner and see the BG has cut a guys throat and is ranting. From my cover position, I used commands to get him to drop the knife and get on his knees with his back to me and his hands in the air. So realizing he is down an unarmed, I move around the corner and half way down the hall. He starts saying it’s not his fault and gets up. I back up, and command him to get back down. He seems confused, distraught, is jabbering, and pacing in small circles well away from me. I watch him to make sure he doesn’t go for the knife he dropped, when he reaches up on a refrigerator and grabs something and wheels around. It’s a gun! So we shoot each other! The lesson I learned: you left your cover, dummy.
Scenario 3:
I come home and find the door jimmied. Knowing my wife is inside and may be in imminent danger I call 911 – SOP and then go in. So with gun drawn, I pie a corner and sure enough, there’s the BG standing at the end of a hallway. He’s alone so I order him to “Freeze” he says “OK, OK don’t shoot” and then turns to run. You gotta be careful. This may not be the BG. He may have seen a problem and tried to help; there’s no way to know. He wasn’t armed or threatening. But the thought process was just enough hesitation for him to escape down the hall. I was at an angle to the hall so I couldn’t see down it.
So now, I have no choice but to clear my house by myself to protect my wife. Boy, this one is a nightmare of the first degree. It is clearly a no win layout. There are half-height walls, doorways such that it is impossible to clear without turning your back on an uncleared area. I mentioned to my instructor this is impossible. He said, “Some situations really suck don’t they.”
I had cleared all but one big room to my left so I started in there. I hadn’t gotten far until the instructor tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to see it wasn’t the instructor, it was the BG and instead of shooting me down like I deserved, they had the grace to spare what little self-esteem I had left. I said where’d you come from? He said “I hid in the abandoned refrigerator you passed twice. The lesson I learned: Don’t assume, check everything. Action (him suddenly running) beats reaction.
Scenario 4:
I’m in another restaurant when an angry guy comes in with a long stick (clearly a deadly weapon) yelling something about where is she. He’s threatening violence and menacing customers. I tell the guy, that I think who he’s looking for just went out back the back door. He says “Oh, yeah….” and starts out the door after her. I tell the guys in the restaurant to get out and we all take off out the door. And so it ended with me being a hero by distracting the BG, and getting all the customers out without even drawing my gun.
However, here’s what I think would have happened if I had engaged the angry man. I would have been forced to shoot him to protect myself and his dearest friend would have shot me while I was shooting the BG. The lesson I learned: sometimes there’s a better solution than a gunfight. If there’s no other way, you better be prepared to deal with the sleeper.
Scenario 5:
I’m in a mountain cabin far off in the woods and from my room I hear an guy doing some noisy things not too far from my room. I get my gun and just peek out the door to see what’s going on. I see a guy with a shotgun vandalizing and trying to find things to steal. Unfortunately he sees me. I close the door, which for the sake of the scenario, won’t lock, but I take cover behind a inside doorway. The door the BG will come in, is hinged on the side I’m on so the door will even work in my favor. After some exchanges about my billfold and the police, etc. he breaks through the door and the gunfight is on.
He only knows where I am, by where my voice was coming from as we talked through the door. Plus, I was concealed behind another door way and when he “broke” through the door, it would be positioned between him and me. He still managed to locate me and shoot me on the left elbow – the only thing that was exposed. When we looked at him, he had three little blue Simunitions marks on his chest and one on his strong hand that would have been in front of his chest because of the way he was holding the shotgun.
My instructors wanted to know why I let him in and didn’t shoot through the door. I told them I wanted to be sure of my target. They said “You had already seen him, you knew he was armed, you knew he was an imminent armed threat, and he was verbally threatening you. I said, “Yeah, but, I had lost visual contact with him and for all I knew he could have had an innocent person in front of him for shield.” That pretty much ended the discussion. The lesson I learned: In a gunfight, you could get shot. Some of my fellow students decided to leave their cabin and confront this guy. You could tell which one’s did it; they had little blue pellet marks all over them.
Scenario 6:
I’m in a van that broke down on the road. A guy pulls up in front of me, gets out of his car and walks back to my van, I stay in my van, I’ve learned a little something by now. He begins with, “Any thing I can do to help?”
I roll the driver’s side window down half way to talk to him. I tell him that help is on the way, I notified the police and they’re on the way and so is AAA. He says he’s so and so and reaches up to shake hands and I do the dumbest thing. I reach my arm out the window and shake hands with him. He could have torn my arm off but he didn’t.
He says, he’s a mechanic and he’d be glad to take a look if I’d pop the hood. Well, what have I got to lose? I’ll stay in the van and be ready for anything. He’s pokin’ around under the hood and then through the opening between the hood and body, I see him place a Glock on the radiator. He says some stuff that’s sounds angry and about that time puts a Simunitions pellet on the windshield where it looked like it would be right between my eyes. Well I shoot back but he’s already moved and we did some shooting and the drill ended. The lesson I learned: You can’t trust strangers. Action beats reaction.
Actually other than the arm out the window, I don’t see how I could have played it much differently. I stayed in the van with doors locked and windows up. If he’s gonna shoot you, you’re probably gonna get shot. But, I also discovered the very vehicle that protects you, inhibits your movements. OTOH, getting out would probably be worse. Several students tried that, one got stabbed before he could do anything.
Scenario 7:
I escaped this one without a shot and saved everyone by the way, but my fellow students decided to stay and fight and came out with literally bloody pellet marks to prove it.
You walk into a quicky stop and realize a guy has a gun and is threatening the clerk. You’re right behind him and he doesn’t even know you’re there. Customers are standing around in shock. I gather them up and leave. Each of my fellow students, as their time came, decided to engage the threat and when they did the BG and his innocent looking partner shot him. As the instructor described it later in the debriefing, “He’d never seen three guys (one GG and two BGS) standing toe to toe and shooting each other to pieces. Lesson learned: intervention is dangerous. If you get in a gunfight, up close, you're likely gonna get shot. The students that fought assumed if they shot the BG once or twice the gunfight would be over. They hadn’t counted on a backup or the BG not dying instantly, or that cover, distance, and an advantageous position should be used if they were going to engage.
