{"id":8844,"date":"2025-06-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8844"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:44:51","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/time\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always look forward to <em>Red Shirt News, <\/em>the newsletter by my old friend and colleague Terry Smith.&nbsp; The Red Shirts were those of us who reached a high level with the Monadnock PR-24 side-handle baton, training the instructors who would in turn train other officers. The Monadnock program encompassed other non-lethal weapons as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another old red shirt friend is Larry Smith, late of the San Diego Police Department. In the current issue he does an excellent review of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/calibrepress.com\/2025\/04\/time-is-always-on-your-side-the-lie-that-can-get-people-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Time Is Always On Your Side<\/a>\u201d by Michael E. Musengo, Lynn L. Westover and Lon D. Bartel. The single most powerful lesson I saw him extract in his review was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026in law enforcement time isn\u2019t a luxury\u2014it\u2019s a contested resource.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s true in any form of human conflict. I hear some people say \u201cThere\u2019s no timer in a gunfight.\u201d&nbsp; My answer has always been \u201cSure there is. It\u2019s located in your opponent\u2019s trigger finger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks to Terry and Larry, and of course Musengo, Westover and Bartel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always look forward to Red Shirt News, the newsletter by my old friend and colleague Terry Smith.&nbsp; The Red Shirts were those of us who reached a high level with the Monadnock PR-24 side-handle baton, training the instructors who would in turn train other officers. The Monadnock program encompassed other non-lethal weapons as well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8845,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions\/8845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}