Frank Borelli: Founder / President / Writer / SME (Subject Matter Expert): Frank's history includes seven years of military service as a Military Policeman, Light Infantry soldier and Combat Engineer. With more than twenty-five years of law enforcement experience, including almost twenty years of LE training delivery experience, Frank has become recognized nationwide as an expert on Use of Force issues, training development, equipment selection and active shooter response evolution. Frank is a regular contributor to publications such as the Blackwater Tactical Weekly, American Cop magazine and more. He currently serves as the Editor In Chief for Officer.com, New American Truth magazine and the BC News Weekly. He's a member in good standing of the NRA and IALEFI, as well as being a Certified Anti-Terrorism Specialist (CAS) through the Anti-Terrorism Accreditation Board.

Frank has done a lot of outstanding work preparing cops for the street. He has been gracious enough to allow LESC to post his articles here on our web-site. This article The First O in OODA is the first in a series of articles on the Boyd Cycle Frank has written. The article is an outstanding and will help protection professionals (law enforcement, military and safety and security) develop a better understanding of awareness and decision making under pressure, utilizing the Boyd Cycle.

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For any contemporary warrior who is not already familiar with Boyd's Cycle - the human decision making paradigm - I say to you, "Go and study." First documented by Col. John Boyd (USAF Ret, now deceased), the Human Decision Making Cycle is comprised of the following four steps repeated in endless loops:

• Observe
• Orient
• Decide
• Act

Anyone who has ever been in a fight knows that thinking and acting faster than your opponent matters - and not just a little. Veteran combatants have given testimony as to the applicability and importance of Boyd's Cycle. More specifically, they've talked about how important it is for every warrior to understand what an "OODA Loop" is and how moving through it faster than your opponent means you'll be victorious. In this series of articles, we'll examine in detail Boyd's sketch of the OODA Loop and all of the myriad factors he listed as affecting each step. This will be a five part series, with this article serving as Part One: The First "O".

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