Immediate feedback increases training success Published July 7, 2010 By Staff Sgt. Keith Ballard Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- For members of the Armed Forces, training has become a way of life. Airmen train to fight, they train for the mission and they train to become better at what they do every day. Nothing is more gratifying to these warriors than immediate feedback so they know the job they are doing is being performed right. Airmen of the 91st Security Forces Group get that immediate feedback when they visit a new trainer here. The trainer is called the Laser Collective Combat Advanced Training System, or LCCATS. It is a mobile scenario-based simulator that works by using a laser to verify hits on a target. Blank ammunition is fired at a sensor attached to the end of an M-16 or M-4 rifle barrel. A laser is then activated to "shoot" the pop up targets. Once the target has been "hit", the target will fall. This system uses multiple targets which can be positioned in different locations for each scenario the shooter faces. "The simulator allows the shooter to be placed in shoot-no-shoot scenarios," said Tech. Sgt. Asher McCoy, 91st Security Support Squadron security forces training noncommissioned officer-in-charge. "It also allows all shooters on the line to communicate with each other to take out hostile targets." The laptop used to monitor this system can determine the order in which the targets are raised as well as how many times the Airmen are to hit the target before the target goes down. The program can keep a record of how well you performed during the scenario. "This type of system provides immediate feedback to the shooter," Sergeant McCoy said. "It also increases their shooting capabilities to include stance and target acquisition."