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TRAINING Train life for your "A lifetime of training for just ten seconds." —Jesse Owens, Olympic medalist and track and field legend talking about his training regimen By Carole Moore I t's boring, really: doing the same thing over and over until it becomes reflexive, until it can be done in your sleep, eyes closed, hands going through the motions like they belong to someone else. And then one day you shoot out most of your load while crouched behind some dubious cover. Suddenly, all that training kicks in and you drop that nearly empty magazine, pocket what's left of it, slam home a full 8 Law Enforcement Technology one and you're back in the action. Just. Like. That. Sure, maybe you fumbled a little. Yours hands are sweaty and you're under fire—and honestly, as much as your instructors talked about this, you didn't really expect it to happen, at least not here, not tonight. But the thing is, you trained for this. Over and over and over until you were bored to tears and wanted to boot that insistent firearms August 2013 www.officer.com instructor right in the tail end due to the number of times she made you do it again. You could have been home watching a game or spending time with your kids or even on patrol, actually policing. Who would have ever thought that all of that repetitive training would one day save someone's life? Maybe even yours. Your chief did. Your sheriff did. Your training officer did. Your supervisor