Amen that…I reflected on that during my debrief from one of the scenarios where the aggressor was going for what I thought was a gun in his sweatshirt…I drew down on him and reverted back to my Air Force cadre voice giving him commands…the instructors admitted being a little shocked hearing commands like that from a civilian and the aggressor instructor admitted he was starting to draw until I started issuing commands at him like that, and it froze him for a minute or so…but he still eventually drew, lol.
I also found that it was very helpful in experiencing tunnel vision and then recognizing it and attempting to mitigate it. In fact in the above scenario, because I was “tunnel visioned” in on his hand in his sweatshirt pocket, I missed an opportunity to gain some concealment and distance behind a car.