Got back from my city explorer's "meeting" a few hours ago. Had loads of fun! We did "Building searches" which I would also consider alittle bit of an active shooter training. We meet up at a local middle school, and went over some basic stuff, they gave us the infamous red guns (Though they were more orange, and dark red. BTW "Red guns" are kinda like that piece of wood that will ferrell had to use in the movie "The other guys". So in other words it's just a painted piece of wood (Not really wood though) that's shaped like a glock, P.S. Kansas is Glock-Nation!) So back on topic we started in the 3 story part of the middle and split up in groups. 18 people if I remember correctly, three groups of 6, only 12 guns so a group would split up and half (3 people) would hide, while the other half would hide on the second floor for the second group to search for. We'd slowly move down the hallway, checking doors, rooms and whatever else was nearby. People I can't tell you much except for ALWAYS Check your spot you should be looking at while doing a search with other officers. I was hiding one of the times, and could see the reflection of a door's window through another and saw one of the other explorers checking a room (Door since half the rooms were locked) and so I popped out and said bang (Killing him) and everyone just looked at me in surprise cause no one was causing the left side like they should had. A few other times I messed up whenever I was doing the search (Kinda). Me & a female explorer went into a room, and was checking it when I saw a female's foot behind a chair and called out and placed her in custody and when we were leaving another female (A 3rd one, on the left side) popped out and killed us. Once again showing that you need to search all of your area cause since I went first I went right side while the girl I searched with went left and didn't clear it good (Which had the 3rd female kill us on the way out) since I trusted my partner to protect me and clear her side while I cleared mine, it got us both killed. (Not bagging on the girl cause she was pretty chill and I knew her)

Explorers is a load of fun! I would definitely recommend it to anyone, and everyone on here and people thinking of doing law enforcement. People who don't even think they'll do it, but want to try it. 

Explorers is fun. Best thing to do if you're in your 16's - 20's. Very valuable knowledge and insight. I found explorers to be very eye opening. You see more then what the average person sees thus opening your eyes a lot more.

lol Story from me:

I remember the time when I used to be an explorer when I was younger. We were performing "Tubular Assaults" (Bus insertions) and part of our training was to turn off the bus before moving up to the main entry doors. So here comes Gung-Ho Shadow rollin up, past the shut off button, to the door, and then pinning the bus driver against his seat and making everyone put their hands up. I then completely go out of character, stop in the middle of everything and go "Sorry, I messed up, can we redo the scenario again?" That day become known as the "Tactical Do-Over"

I'm a explorer firefighter for my local fire department, it is a really fun thing to do, you make lots of friends who are interested in things you are, and in the porgram im in in get my state firefighter I certification if I complete the course when I turn 18