Sentence examples for been trained to shoot from inspiring English sources

He'd been trained to shoot a Kalashnikov and a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher and a Russian-made machine gun called an RPK.

Armed guards were trained to shoot defectors.

American soldiers are trained to shoot at the enemy.

"We're trained to shoot until there is no longer a threat.

Police officers in the US are trained to shoot to kill, not incapacitate.

'[The guards] are trained to shoot in the air, not at prisoners.

Officers are trained to shoot no more than three bullets before pausing to reassess the situation, Mr. Kelly said in his most detailed assessment of the shooting yet.

Officers are trained to shoot at "center mass", roughly the chest region, because they're more likely to hit the target and stop an imminent threat.

Police officials have long said that officers are trained to shoot to stop suspects who pose a deadly threat to themselves or others.

"I think they did what we would expect officers of any experience level to do," Mr. Kelly said, noting that officers were trained to "shoot to stop," not simply to wound.

Reporting that "experts on police procedure" said the officers "did what they were trained to do," the article quoted the Philadelphia police commissioner explaining that officers are trained to shoot at torsos, not limbs.