The best training is hands on and realistic. Every plan must be practiced to ensure it's viable and achievable.
Drills and exercises are not to be stepped into lightly. There are far too many instances of Active Shooter exercises that have failed to meet the intended objectives, actually been counter-productive to the learning goals, and worse, caused injury and liabilities. Often this is due to exercise planners that are not specifically trained in these types of scenarios. Our instructors are highly experienced and certified in exercise development and management. We are nationally certified in exercise scenario development, Reality Based Training Instructors and licensed by the Tennessee Police Officer Standardization and Training as master Force on Force Scenario Instructors. Our instructors have led hundreds of exercises of every scale. Let us bring that level of experience to your organization to make sure your Active Shooter drill or exercise is done correctly, efficiently, and most importantly, SAFELY. Having done exercises for almost 20 years, we have a proven track record of absolutely zero safety issues or injuries during any exercise.
If your Active Shooter exercise requires coordination with outside agencies such as Police, Fire, or EMS we will handle all that coordination for you. We can facilitate table-top exercises to allow easy practice of an entire plan with every agency and party that needs to be involved. Perhaps you want to just practice a section of your Active Shooter plan with your members; we will put together a Functional Drill to safely and effectively compliment the training you have done. If you want to host a full scale Active Shooter exercise at your location involving multiple agencies, we will facilitate that scenario and make sure the exercise is done safely and that everyone's objectives are met.
The most common request we receive is for us to conduct a Functional Drill where we use a role player to simulate an Active Shooter Event at a location to allow everyone to practice their response. These drills can be very quick for your organization to put on with very positive results.
*We do not believe in, nor will we participate in surprise drills or allow children to be involved in any Active Shooter Drill or Exercise*
Active Shooter events have evolved. With the inclusion of Violent Extremism and Terrorism into the Active Shooter spectrum, the perpetrators have evolved. We are constantly studying the behaviors and warning signs of Active Shooters to best educate people on what to look for so we can achieve an early intervention. We study the tactics used by Active Shooters to develop the best prevention and survival strategies.
There will be wounded. There will be bleeding. It will be 3 to 5 minutes before the police are able to assist you. A person can die from blood loss in 2 to 3 minutes if not treated. You may be the difference between life and death for someone.
This is beyond CPR/First Aid, this is Tactical Trauma. Using the principles of the U.S. Military Tactical Casualty Care (TCCC) and the guidelines of the Committee for Emergency Casualty Care (CoTECC) you can learn the skills necessary to deal with the most common injury types associated with Active Shooters.
We have partnered with some of the best instructors in tactical medicine to bring this level of training to your organization.
Every student that attends one of our sponsored Stop the Bleed Courses will receive a fully stocked Bleeding Control Medical Kit.