Individual Survival Tactics

This course deals with self defense while at home, work, in your automobile, when traveling, while in public settings (like restaurants, shopping malls, and theaters) and with those tactics necessary to win if it comes to physical violence. The course will make extensive use of tactical simulations and will take place in both tactical simulators and in buildings. Half the course will deal with situations in and around your car. A high emphasis will be placed on decision-making in role-playing scenarios. The scenarios will include both tactical decision-making and deadly force decision-making while under stress.

Subjects Covered:

• Awareness of how street crimes and terrorist acts are committed
• Spotting and avoiding common crimes
• The tactics that prevent confrontations: verbal skills, body language, tactical positioning, minimizing target indicators
• Countering both road-blocking situations and "carjacking"
• Tactical principles, guidelines, and techniques
• Establishing active and passive defense plans, security zones
• Communication techniques within the family or small team
• Fields of fire
• House-searching tactics such as room clearing, and managing danger areas like stairwells, doorways, and hallways
• Use of fighting equipment under limited visibility conditions
• Use of longarms in home defense
• Post crisis management: evacuation or security and containment, interaction with witnesses, interaction with responding emergency personnel and investigating Law Enforcement

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