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ER,
If/when you attend these courses and fail to ask “why” someone does something then you will be getting “more” than you paid for. As for Gunsite, I happen to know one of the instructors there and even he asks questions.
Also I've seen “defensive tactics” instructors push a technique that were absolute bullshit, when called on it they could not defend its use or tried the old “baffle’em with bullshit” approach.
Case in point, a Phoenix LEO and friend of mine just attended an explosive breaching course somewhere in Texas. This course was advertised as an LEO and military breaching school. The friend of mine called during the first day and asked me;
“Do you guys (Special Forces) use gunpowder charges to breach obstacles?” After was done laughing I told him, “Why of course! We hate using the sophisticated chemical explosives specially designed to breach doors and walls! Get a grip!”
He and his pals left the course.
If you think something is bullshit, it probably is, and should be closely examined.
Read the bios of those teaching you, ask about their credetionals. If the bio is “Twenty five year Air Force veteran” think for a second, who in the AF is engaged in “ground combat” or any ground combat training for that matter???? Become aware, become informed or be prepared to spend money on worthless training. I've even read bios that stated that the person “served with” a Special Forces unit, what it didn’t tell you was that he was a cook in the SF unit.
I personally busted a guy in Scottsdale that runs a gun club. In his online bio he stated he was former member of Naval Special Operations and he had personally trained just about EVERY Fed agency, state local and Special Operations unit in the US military. What it didn't state was the FACT that he had FAILED out of the Navel Special Operations course and left the Navy with only four months time served. The POS actually had that in his bio. He was made to remove his bio, but he’s rich beyond imagination because even with his bio now gone the locals here have yet to make the connection to his bullshit.
Before you attend Billy-Bob’s advanced fancy school of shooting, take a few minutes to read their bios, do not listen to your buddy with two years on the PD telling you “That was Great Training, Best I've ever had!”
Billy –Bob cares about one thing, taking monies from people. Does Billy –Bob care he has no formal training? Hell no, he’ll simply make it up! I find it amusing when Billy –Bob has ZERO in the way of formal training, but he’s sporting a COUNTER-TERRORIST and SPECIAL OPERATION credetionals in his profile as a shooting instructor. (There is no such thing as a "civilian" counter-terrorist school. At least none that I'm aware of, so you tell me where a civilian acquires such training to place on his profile? Funny, I just read such a bio in a shooting magazine just last month, a civilian with no military back ground with Special Operations and Counter-Terrorism in his "Instructor" bio.)
You are a LEO, do some LEO shit and find out about these people before you attend their courses!
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