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VA LETC Week 1 Exam Guide 2025/2026 – 100+ Verified Flashcards | ICARE, Tactical Steps, SBC, TBI, Mental Illness, Communication

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This VA LETC Week 1 Study Guide (2025/2026 Edition) provides 100+ verified flashcard-style Q&A, reflecting the most current standards used at the Veterans Affairs Law Enforcement Training Center (LETC). Covering essential training from Week 1, this guide is ideal for officers-in-training, promotional candidates, and refresher learners needing deep understanding of VA operations, communication techniques, mental health response, suicide prevention, and tactical procedures. What’s Inside: VA Mission & Core Values: Lincoln’s Promise, VA Police Mission, ICARE (Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, Excellence) Voluntary Compliance & Universal Truths Dignity and Respect, Provide Reasons, Give Options, Offer a Second Chance Tactical Training Models: Tactical 8-Step & 5-Step Patterns LEAPS Communication Model (Listen, Empathize, Ask, Paraphrase, Summarize) SAFER Model (Security, Attack, Flight, Excessive Repetition, Revised Priorities) Mental Health Response: Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Dementia, Psychosis, Excited Delirium TBI: causes, symptoms, behaviors, screening questions EDP (Emotionally Disturbed Person) Suicide by Cop (SBC): Definition, indicators, victim profiles, law enforcement strategies Media control, de-escalation, and situational containment Keywords: va letc, week 1 exam, icare values, tactical communication, LEAPS, SAFER, suicide by cop, SBC indicators, mental illness, excited delirium, dementia, psychosis, tactical 8-step, VA police, TBI screening, voluntary compliance, EDP, VA core mission, 2025 flashcards, law enforcement training, VA training guide

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VA LETC Week 1 2025/2026 Exam
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Name the mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To
fulfill President Lincolns promise "To care for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow, and his orphan" by serving and honoring the men and women
who are America's veterans.

List the 5 core values of the Department of Veterans Affairs - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔(ICARE)

Integrity

Commitment

Advocacy

Respect

Excellence

Recall the mission and the vision of the VA Police - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To serve and
protect Veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors,
and others who frequent VA facilities.


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Recognize how the VA Police support the mission of the Department of Veterans
Affairs and the veteran patient experience - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To assist those who
cannot care for themselves. A police officer not only has a duty, but an obligation
to help people who are less fortunate.

VA Police Vison - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Indispensable part of the corporate VA team

Voluntary Compliance - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The process of meeting the legal
requirements of a wrong doing by the persons own free will. This is a preferred
outcome for VA Medical Centers and the VA Police.

Universal Truth #1 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dignity and Respect

Universal Truth #2 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ask to do something rather than to be told

Universal Truth #3 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People like to be told WHY they're doing
something

Universal Truth #4 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔People respond better to options vs. threats

Universal truth #5 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔2nd chance

5 times when words fail - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔S - Security

A - Attack

F - Flight

E - Excessive Repetition

R - Revised Priorities


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