Ark. Guardsmen Conduct Taser Training [Image 7 of 9]

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES

06.23.2025

Photo by 1st Sgt. Jim Heuston 

Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office

Taser prongs are carefully removed and put in a biohazard bottle for safe disposal during taser training with the 216th Military Police Company, June 24, 2025, at Camp Robinson.

Being shot by a taser is safe for healthy adults, explained Spc. Cameron Johnson, medic with the 216th Military Police Company, “We do a good job prescreening every Soldier [for medical issues] before we do the training. My biggest concern with the tasing is; if the taser prongs hit somewhere like in sensitive tissue, the butt or the spine, that hurts a lot more.”

From Johnson's experience most Soldiers recover from the taser shock in about three to five seconds, but he added they keep an AED machine, an automated external defibrillator, on hand in case a person has an arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, due to the taser shock.

“Depending on where you get tased,” said Johnson about full recovery. “It can take a few days because your body's going to be sore. [The taser] is interrupting natural electrical impulses that your brain is sending to your body, and you're sending a load in there. And so, those muscles are contracting and retracting, doing all kinds of funky stuff. Depending on what muscles are targeted; they can be sore.”

Spc. Cameron Johnson, medic with the 216th Military Police Company, described removing the taser prongs as his main concern because if the prongs are not pulled straight out, carefully, they can tear tissue and cause a larger wound that takes longer to heal.


(Arkansas Army National Guard photo by 1st Sgt. Jim Heuston)

• Date Taken: 06.23.2025
• Date Posted: 07.01.2025 11:13
• Photo ID: 9142368
• VIRIN: 250624-Z-DR641-1007
• Resolution: 7078x5056
• Size: 13.72 MB
• Location: NORTH LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, US