I'd say that this particular skill is useless unless the person already has a good grasp on firing from the support shoulder without a sling and has a solid grasp of re-safing the weapon after a string of fire. Why? I've watched people try to move to the support shoulder WITHOUT the safety on, and this is definitely not a time you want to be fumbling with the safety off.
Getting at the support shoulder firing part, I'd say that learning to get to your support shoulder doesn't do any good if they can't already shoot accurately from said shoulder. Get those basics down, then move on to the sling.
Assuming that someone has that down, I'd say it falls under the Conscious Incompetence section as they have to start somewhere. If they've never done something, but recognize it's importance, then go to it, but go slow. There will be fumbling and bumbling so an empty weapon is a good place to start.
During a recent outing with some LEO friends of mine, we had a newer officer out there and he wanted to do the "cool stuff" we were doing. It was a good half hour conversation (that took away from actual trigger time) to convince him that he probably wasn't ready to do lateral transitions. We asked him to unload and unsling his rifle and go thru the motions.
Primary shoulder, unsafe, bang bang, resafe, transition, unsafe, bang bang, resafe.
As soon as he got to the first resafe(which he didn't) he began to transition and put his support hand on the fire controls and on the trigger. He couldn't get past the fact that he wasn't ready to try it with live ammo. Not sure if it was personal pride or flat out arrogance on his part, but we as a group wouldn't let him. He got pissed and left. Definitely didn't have a high level of strength of stimulus to learn.
It did make me wonder if there are many people who are at a higher level and a lower lever shooter that it may damage newer shooters to a point. Almost like you need to slow down a bit until they are up to speed so they don't try to run before they crawl.
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