Is he an instructor or not? Is he being paid money or not? Is he responsible for creating a safe environment or not? The body armor cast doubt on the system he created. Most importantly, it sends the message to the students that they were knowingly put in an unnecessarily unsafe environment and weren't even given a heads up.
You know there is a fire extinguisher system for the engines of every plane you've been on, right? Does that cast doubt on the safety systems created for those aircraft? No! It's part of those safety systems.
Let's take the one guy in this situation who probably knows better what he's doing than anybody else and put THAT guy at greater risk of a sucking chest wound. Makes tons of sense...
Quick! Someone just accidentally shot your instructor and he's incapacitated! Where's the blowout kit? Where's the nearest medical facility? What, you were planning on waiting for an ambulance!? Fail.
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