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Sunday, December 8th, 2013Panteao Productions – Sponsors Join Make Ready TV
Monday, December 2nd, 2013Columbia, SC, November 29, 2013 – Panteao is pleased to announce that the following companies have joined the first season of Make Ready TV as show sponsors:
Title Sponsor: FNH-USA
Sponsors: Brownells, Smith & Wesson, Pro-Ears and TNVC
Pro-Tips Sponsor: Battle Comp Enterprises
“We are extremely happy to have these companies on board in such short notice. With our first season starting in just a few weeks, we knew advertising budgets would be tight or in most instances already allocated. But these companies saw the potential in our new show and managed to come on board anyway. We won’t let them down,” said Fernando Coelho, president and CEO of Panteao Productions.
The first episode of Make Ready TV will be airing in January on Wild TV in Canada and the Pursuit Channel in the US. Episodes will also be available from the Panteao website for Panteao subscribers. The Make Ready TV website will be launching shortly and the Make Ready TV Facebook page is already live.
TAT 3D Targets
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
I first noticed the TAT 3D targets in photos from the recent MiliPol expo in Paris. Two things struck me. First, they don’t look like anyone in particular. No one is going to see there and be offended. Second, they are modular. A combination of self sealing foam and steel plates, TAT 3D targets can be posed in many positions. Additionally, the foam panels on the head and chest can be removed so that the target will be a more traditional steel construction offering audible feedback.
TAT 3D Targets will see their US premiere at SHOT Show. Look for a live demonstration at the 3rd annual FirstSpear range day, January 13th.
Kyle Defoor 2-Day Urban Climber Course
Monday, November 25th, 2013Kyle Defoor is holding an upcoming Urban Climber Course. The course is designed to teach successful climbing and extraction of any vertical wall in an urban area, leaving no sign. Students will be taught climbing techniques tailored to MIL/LE personnel using gear that fits in a 30L civilian daypack and weights less than 10 lbs. The course is available to GOV/MIL/LE personnel only.
Further details, including a gear list, can be found at www.kyledefoor.com/2009/11/2-day-urban-climber-govmille-only.html
Tier One Summit Webinar
Monday, November 25th, 2013
During the upcoming Tier One Summit Webinar, Special Operations Veterans Dale Comstock and Scot Spooner share their experiences in America’s premier Special Mission unit. During the webinar you’ll learn:
-How to build a culture of trust, accountability and autonomy. Boost productivity and profits by shortening the decision making process.
-How to strengthen your mind, master complex tasks through visualization, and accelerate learning exponentially.
-How to optimize your fitness level, regardless of age, and increase functional strength with performance based training.
-Proven strategies that accelerate the speed of goal achievement. Discover how to identify main efforts and create mind alignment throughout your team.
-How to train for the DELTA Selection course. You will get a 9 week program complete with diet plan.
-How to forge principal based leaders that maintain the quality and integrity of your company.
-How to quickly improve your performance in shooting, martial arts, and sport-specific skills.
-An easy way to improve your quality of life with proper diet and nutrition. Learn safe and effective ways to avoid chronic diseases, boost your energy level, and feel years younger.
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I.C.E. Training And PDT Technologies Launch Reality-Based Training Program For Civilian Personal Defense Market
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013Program Promotes Higher Training Standards by Incorporating Military/Law Enforcement Methods in Mainstream Defensive Firearms Instruction
ALAMO, Calif. – November 18, 2013 – I.C.E. Training, one of the nation’s leading defensive training companies, and Practical Defense Training Technologies (PDT), a reality-based training solutions provider, have partnered to present the Reality-Based Training Instructor Development Program. Although gun ownership has risen dramatically in recent years, training has lagged behind, creating a huge gap between the number of civilians who own firearms, and those who have had sufficient training. Launching in January 2014, this program leverages reality-based training methodologies to improve standards in mainstream defensive firearms instruction. The program is designed for RBT instructors, NRA certified instructors, concealed carry weapon (CCW) and personal defense/home defense instructors. Some of the nation’s top civilian training companies, including 10X Defense, Safer Faster Defense, Bearco Training and Echo-5 Training Group, are among the first to be certified under the program.
A mainstay in the military and law enforcement communities, reality-based training provides the conditioning, decision-making skills and stress inoculation that can save lives in real-world scenarios. The Reality-Based Training Instructor Development Program safely and responsibly integrates RBT into mainstream defensive firearms instruction. Created by I.C.E. Training, this 30-hour program combines distance education, classroom sessions and scenario experiences such as home defense, vehicle CCW, public space CCW and armed robbery. Once certified, students will also receive a RBT product package that includes non-lethal training ammunition (NLTA) and PDT Technologies’ professional-grade personal protective equipment (PPE). The use of PDT’s professional-grade PPE, such as the Force 1 helmet, neck protector, chest protector and hand armor, enables course participants to learn military/law enforcement methods of progressive skill development using non-lethal training ammunition.
“The addition of a Reality-Based Training Instructor Development Course is a natural evolution,” said Rob Pincus, a nationally recognized defensive firearms instructor and owner of I.C.E. Training. “I’ve been involved in high-level RBT since 2000 and have been training others to teach for almost that long. The state of the industry, as well as non-lethal training equipment, have advanced to the point that quality force-on-force experiences should be available to the average person learning to defend themselves, their families and their homes. Teaching instructors how to conduct safe and effective reality-based training is the next step.”
Rob Pincus is also the developer of the COMBAT FOCUS Shooting program and the Personal Defense Video DVD Series. For well over a decade, he and his instructors have provided training to military special operations personnel from the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, law enforcement and security officers, and civilians interested in the defense of their families and homes. Pincus has published three books and written for a variety of trade media outlets including the Personal Defense Network. He appears as an instructor on television programs including The Best Defense and S.W.A.T. Magazine TV.
“Reality-based training exists today because of irrefutable data sets from the field supporting the validity of immersion-type training,” said Gordon Potter, president of PDT Technologies and a 15-year veteran of U.S. Army Special Forces. “What is so promising about partnering with I.C.E. Training is the way I see them shaping the future of dynamic critical incidents. I.C.E. continues to define the need for a broader understanding of sciences, neuroscience, physics, and physiology to effectively engage the whole person in personal defense training. Through this program, civilian trainers can add a dimensional difference to their existing programs and have the opportunity to use the same training products, techniques, and methodologies that have proven successful in the military and law enforcement worlds.”
Pricing and Registration
The Reality-Based Training Instructor Development Program will be held monthly across the nation beginning in 2014, with the inaugural course kicking off in Las Vegas on Saturday, January 18 after SHOT Show. The program will take place at Battlefield Vegas, a premier military-style training complex located just one block from the Las Vegas strip. The program is priced at $1499, which includes a $300 course fee and a product package comprising:
· Three (3) full sets of PDT’s personal protective equipment. Designed for non-lethal training ammunition engagement, each set includes the Force 1 helmet, neck protector, padded hood, chest protector, groin protector, hand armor, and a marking knife for CQB training.
· 500 rounds of non-lethal training ammunition (5.56mm marking cartridges)
· One (1) M-4/AR-15 conversion bolt.
The $300 course fee is due as a deposit upon registration. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to complete their purchase of the product package for $1199. An upgrade fee applies for 9mm marking cartridges and a handgun conversion kit. Those who do not pass the course are ineligible to purchase the product package. Students must be certified firearms instructors (NRA, law enforcement agency, private sector certification, etc.) prior to attending the classroom portion of this program in order to be eligible for testing and certification. To register, please visit www.icetraining.us.
Author Tom Kratman Talks Military Training
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013Tom Kratman is an author of military science fiction but unlike many authors, he is a Veteran having served as an enlisted Soldier and commissioned officer, retiring as a LTC from the USAR. Below is an excerpt from an article he wrote on military training for his publisher, Baen Books. Politically correct, he ain’t. But that’s the point.
Axiom One: The functions of training, the reasons we train, and all training can do for us, boil down to five things: Skill Training, Conditioning, Development, Selection, and Testing of Doctrine and Equipment.
The armed forces have a serious doctrinal lack when it comes to explaining why we train and how we do. Since they can’t articulate things like, “No, Doctor, Ranger School sucks in the way it does because we are conditioning and selecting, not merely teaching skills,” we get changes demanded from unqualified amd ignorant people, with credentials that bear no particular relationship to train for war.
I’ve spent, by the way, a number of decades since I first floated this axiom around, looking for a valid argument against it from anyone entitled to an opinion. I still haven’t gotten one, beyond the merest quibble. Every practicing trainer would probably recognize these as valid, even if they wouldn’t necessarily articulate them in exactly the same way.
The five functions should not be looked at as things that can be added up, to come to an approximation of a unit’s or individual’s training status. To even hope to do that you would have to be able to measure some immeasurables. Forget it; all the really important things can’t be measured, while all the really measurable things aren’t very important.
But if you could measure everything, trying to add their values together would still be the wrong way to look at it. After all, a soldier or a battalion, be they ever so skilled, are still worthless if they lack the courage to stand in line of battle, or to press the assault home. Instead, the proper way to look at them would be as things that must be multiplied by each other, with any factor being a zero causing the total to be worth zero, even if one approached infinity. Of course, again, since most of these are anywhere from difficult to impossible to measure, you’re not going to get a true value. The important thing to remember is that a zero in one is a zero overall, and even a serious weakness is one means weakness overall.
It’s also worth remembering that there is crossover. Better shooting ability, a skill, requires a degree of physical conditioning, but also conditions greater confidence, for example. Greater confidence develops greater trust and unit cohesion. I will treat these functions as distinct, for the most part, the better to illustrate them. But they are actually much fuzzier, with much more crossover, than that. They also apply in different ways at different levels, while some are appropriate to leaders, not so key to followers, and still others are collective, applying not just to everyone but to everyone in a unit together.
Be sure to read the entire article at www.baen.com.
Military Fitness Magazine
Friday, November 15th, 2013
About a decade ago, Nate Morrison and Coach Edgar wrote a popular online military fitness magazine called Military Fitness Magazine, but stopped it after a couple of years. Now, it’s back and better than ever. The new MFM is a membership-based site and consists of three levels of education: MFM Site Members, Combat Conditioning Members, and Operator X Members:
MFM Site Members will consist of lifestyle and recreation information. This will include lessons on the outdoor recreation world and general fitness tips.
Combat Condition Members details how to use Combat Conditioning to meet and exceed training goals. It features one new lesson per week, free downloads, forums, social media and more.
Operator X Members offers operator-specific skill sets and preparation for SOF selection. It will offer lessons on land navigation, ruck marching, TCCC, selection prep, SERE skills, mountaineering skills, and more.
All memberships open next week.
