Because I am involved in the training of Navy security personnel, I am carefully following the coverage of the terrorist incident at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Most of the coverage glosses over how well the Navy Petty Officer at the gate responded. Although the terrorist shot her in the vest area of her chest, knocking her down, she rolled over and hit the button that instantly deploys the installed vehicle barrier. This prevented the shooter from going further onto the base and allowed other security personnel to engage the shooter.
This is exactly the response we have written into our curriculum and is practiced by security forces at every installation. For us, we are proud that what we contribute to Naval Security Forces has prevented what could have been a serious incident.
Best coverage: AP
I like how you touch on the fact that the media doesn't cover everything. That often they gloss over things and only report things that will shock the audience so to speak. As I mentioned in another post of yours, my husband is a firefighter. His department was the one that responded to MSD. The rest of the country and world did not hear the real coverage of what the first responders dealt with that day. They don't know what the calls coming in sounded like, what the cops and fire fighters saw going in that day, and what exactly occurred those moments and hours. Our fire family does, much of my school/work community does also (as many of our student's parents were the SWAT, police, Fire, doctors, etc).
ReplyDeleteThank you for what you do and how you help to contribute to these men and women and their safety.
Oh boy! Thank you for sharing this news and your take on it! I know some folks located in Corpus Christi. This helped me to get in touch with them! Thank You for all you do!
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Jess said. Media coverage often reports only the action part of the whole situation and does not cover anything about the preparatory stage.
The information flow after a tragedy has gotten incredibly complicated in recent years. In fact, seeing this post I was reminded that I saw the headline, wanted to click, then got distracted -- and I had "forgotten" about the event. Or, rather, the headline was gone when I went back to the news site the next time. I, like many, rely on headlines to start the news journey of the day. I want to go back and check it out. Have you compared news coverage to social media coverage?
ReplyDeleteMy social media has just been re-posting of the news articles along with a "Bravo Zulu" (well done) to the security force member.
DeleteCongratulations on making a positive difference in the world!
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