Why Training Must Risk Death

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]And what I'm about to say people won't understand, but I also think it's essential.

[00:00:05]I don't want it to happen, but I think it probably is essential that it does every once in a while.

[00:00:11]>> Because the training has to be so difficult that you get to the brink. You have to train people for the job that they're going to be asked to do. And the training standards need to be a directly downstream reflection of what the career is going to be.

[00:00:27]And I and I and I I don't have the vocabulary to describe how bad I feel for the families, and I'm and you know, I'm not trying to minimize anybody's death, but you will lose more people in the real world execution of the job if you don't make training that difficult than you will by making it that dangerous, knowing that it's going to be that dangerous and that people will die. That will have a positive impact on people surviving the actual job itself. That completely makes sense. Um it's just the realities of life. Yeah. Some jobs are very unique, and some jobs have very unique requirements, and you have to train for that. Or it's it's going to it's going to either come for you on the the front end of that or the or the tail end of that. That's the balance of which one of those you're going to focus on.

[00:01:08]Which is why the lowering of standards is so [ __ ] dangerous. And when it's talked about like the lowering of standards to make it fair for some applicants, like there's no fair in that job.