BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — Two new systems purchased by the 307th Security Forces Squadron were utilized during the March unit training assembly here. The purchases included a mobile urban shoot house and a tactical target system. The items can be configured in a variety of ways to enhance mandatory training scenarios including, active shooter, expeditionary active shooter, force-on-force and shoot-move-communicate situations.
“It was not configurable, so once the Airmen learned the layout they just went through repetitive muscle memory on the same problems,” said Capt. Joel Brown, 307th SFS commander.
The new shoot house solved this training deficiency. It is modular and allows a variety of scenarios to be created within one training session. Inflatable walls can be rearranged to create different scenarios and targets can be easily moved, requiring Airmen to think quickly and adapt to changing environments.
Its mobile design allowed it to be set up in less than an hour during the exercise, providing for more and better training opportunities. Problems with limited access to proper training environments have almost been eliminated since the unit bought the systems.
“Because it is modular, it allows for a unit as small as a squad to set up a house and do training,” said Brown. “There is no limit; we can use it whenever we have time and space available.”
