Since Sunday, our specialized teams—including SWAT, Aviation, and more—have been working around the clock alongside our law enforcement partners, fire service partners, and area hospitals in intense, immersive, real-life training scenarios. We hope and pray we never face situations like these—but hope is not a strategy. Preparation is. At all hours of the day and night, our teams have responded to simulated active shooters, hostage rescues, barricaded suspects, and other critical incidents. The exercises have been demanding, realistic, and intense. We included role-players that had simulated injuries, so the team had to triage and respond to mass casualties. During one hostage-rescue scenario, an operator suffered a serious injury while breaking through a window, severing part of his thumb. After undergoing surgery at the hospital, he asked if he could, and ultimately did, return to work. That is the level of determination, commitment, and professionalism these men and women bring to their mission. They train relentlessly so that, no matter what happens, they are ready to protect this community.