Combat Shooting

Training Overview

This course has been developed to educate and train students in current techniques and procedures in safe weapons handling, marksmanship, critical thinking, and cognitive skills to increase survivability, lethality, and resilience to combat stress. This is a gun higher course.

During the course, students will receive lessons to develop individual skills and drills with both pistol and carbine that relate to combat shooting competencies. Students will be assessed throughout the course in their ability to apply the points of performance taught during live fire assessments. These assessments have been developed to evaluate critical thinking skills and decision-making under stress, and the ability to demonstrate combat marksmanship and good combat behaviors that increase lethality and survivability.

Classroom education will include a lesson on external ballistics and the 45m zero as well as lessons that will introduce students to the physiological aspects of stress on the body and mind during deadly force encounters.

Students will be assessed on engagement speed, accuracy, and weapons handling through a series of combat shooting standards. We will use individual student data to collect and analyze the process to record individual performance data on each student during our shooting assessments. The data will be analyzed and extrapolated to provide measurable, quantifiable and qualifiable feedback on individual performance. Performance data will be collected during specific periods of the course and used as comparisons in capability throughout the training, providing an exact understanding of current competency while providing a clear path forward to excellence.