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Focus: All sworn or commissioned officers of any rank.
Active or Reserve military personnel.
Pre-requisite: Agency certification of basic rifle skills.
If you know you are going into a gunfight, you want to take a rifle...
...and a handgun with extra ammo for each. And, if you can, similarly armed friends who are dressed like
you and willing to press a trigger.
This course teaches your instructors "how-to-teach" your officers.
Length:
40-hours
Rifles are for fighting, and this course teaches your agency (or unit)
instructor in how to train your officers to fight and win with the
tools of your trade.
This course provides the agency firearms instructor with the skills to
train officers in the handling and combatives response of the most
versatile and accurate weapon in the police arsenal--"the patrol
rifle." This course presents a shift from the thinking that rifles
are just for threats at distance. While hitting threats at long range
is definitely within the capabilities of the trained officer or
operator armed with a patrol rifle, this course deals with responding
to real-world threats typically occurring at handgun range. Though
this training will deal with Threats at longer ranges (25-80 yards),
the emphasis of this course is to develop instructors who competent
train officers to handle their rifles in short-range and in reduced
space responsive applications.
With numerous events affecting law enforcement,
officers are seeing and responding to the need to have an effective
tool and supporting tactics for defeating heavily armed and possibly
armored adversaries. The premise that "known gunfights are for rifles
and that my handgun is used to fight my way to my rifle" is fully
justified by law enforcement’s recent experience. A trained officer
armed with a rifle has greater potential for ending armed engagements
sooner with less liability exposure than an officer armed with a
handgun alone.
This training represents a fundamental break in
training philosophies as presented in many rifle instructor classes.
This is NOT a "how to shoot" or a "SNIPER CLASS" where time and great
distance support making one well placed aimed shot without the stress
of compressed distance or timeframe. Marksmanship training is valuable
to overall firearms skill development. In the real-world, officers
have the additional pressure of hitting the Deadly Threat in-time.
This is not a traditional "military rifle" class. Since most rifles in
use by L.E. are based on military style weapons with larger magazine
capacities, we have seen programs emphasizing faster fire rates and
higher volumes of fire. We feel this is a foundational error, and
results from actual shootings demonstrate this. While we recognize
greater magazine capacity as one of the strengths of being armed with
a rifle, only"hits" make a difference in a deadly force
confrontation. This course stresses instruction emphasizing "hitting
the Threat" with each round fired.
Cops need a shooting program that realistically
fits their needs and capabilities. This proven program does just that.
Sound fundamentals compliment outstanding tactical employment in a
program that was reverse-engineered for officer’s needs—extremely
high hit ratios in the field result. After all, hits are what
surviving police shootings are about. We have blended a layered
method of instruction that is applicable for the average officer with
extremely advanced tactics and concepts of hitting and surviving a
deadly force event. The focus of this course is the effective and
efficient application of the officer’s rifle in real-world
confrontations at conversational to extended distances.
Remediative theory is an important skill for any
instructor. This is a "how-to-teach" course, and the remediation of
shooters with chronic qualification problems is often a matter of
starting over using a different approach to hitting with a firearm. We
employ the
Systema Professional
Training Weapon System (Airsoft) in our remediative
strategies. Additionally, there are civil liability issues to be dealt
with, and what is required of training records developing a training
plan is part of this comprehensive course.
Sudden assault response is
key to effectively and reasonably responding with the rifle. In
addition to instruction in conducting training in drills with live-fire weapon, we provide reactive drills with
Systema Professional
Training Weapon System "Airsoft" rifles. The
intrinsic safety of the
System Airsoft
rifle plays a key part in
several drills where law enforcement (and any armed professional
carrying a rifle into harm's way) requires reactive hitting skills but
the live-fire environment prevents these skills from being practiced
due to safety concerns. The
Systema Airsoft
rifles provide perfect practice in a perfectly safe manner.
This Airsoft training system permits our participants to fire "live"
without the risks of "live-fire" in those drills where the skills for
the real-world are needed, but the threat to life on the firing range
is too great.
Movement to cover/concealment and the proper use of
both while armed with a rifle are important training issues for the
rifle instructor. Current cutting edge theory states officers should
be trained behind cover while engaged in firearms training. This is
stressed in this course.
One downside of being armed with a rifle in a
proximity compromised environment is that a longer weapon is
potentially more exposed to disarming. Retaining the rifle is a key
survival skill and is often directly linked to weapon handling. The
Tactical Rifle Combatives Instructor should be well versed and
competent in training officers to retain their rifles. Instructors are
also trained to safely incorporate advanced close combatives
strategies. This is a realistic portion of training considering 50% of
all police murders by firearms occur within zero to five feet, and 35%
of all police murders occur following a physical struggle. Officers
must be able to react effectively to this type of threat.
Advanced Methods of Physical Skills Training for
Adult Learners are important for any instructor. The role of the
firearms trainer for the modern police agency shouldn’t be about a guy
who "likes" guns and shooting and is simply tasked with running a
bunch of people through a course of fire every now and then. This high
liability task is appropriately assigned to an individual who is
schooled in methods of transferring tactics and techniques to officers
in a professional manner, helping them survive in the real world. This
class provides that and more.
The participant will learn and be tested on the
Constitutional Limits to the Police Deadly Force Response. Because the
firearms instructor will be the agency "go to" person (Person Most
Knowledgeable) regarding any deadly force response, the instructor
must have the ability to competently answer questions regarding when
to respond with force. Current thinking representing the cutting edge
of training in rifle handling and fire discipline will be emphasized
throughout the course, and these cutting edge training concepts will
also be tested.
This training is devoted to instruction of the
prospective instructor. The focus of this course is your instructor’s
ability to teach your officers. Each aspect of the training method and
curricula is explained and practiced. Each participant is tested
throughout the week in his/her ability to present courses of
instruction. A complete training plan and course of fire, including
the integrated goals and objectives for a comprehensive training
effort is required to be turned in by each instructor-candidate for
review and approval.
Past participants who have successfully completed this course
routinely report that this is one of the most demanding and
evolutionary training programs they have ever attended. It prepares
the police firearms trainer for the critical job task of conducting
worthwhile, meaningful departmental training where competence is not
only a matter of high liability, but a matter of life and death.
Tactical...Practical...Real-World...Defensible! |
