Latest NVG Course

[Arrow 4]

Here are some pictures from our NVG Operators Course that finished up last night. This was our third class and we have come a long way since I picked everyone’s brains here on SS two years ago. We had guys from BP BORTAC, DEA, Tucson, AZ DPS and Pima Regional SWAT. It was a great time!

 

[Etype]

Looks like fun.

I came up with a good one last deployment. It was a lane with pretty simple tasks like knot tying, loading/fire/clear, and engaging specific targets with specific weapons*. One of the kickers was, the tasks were all written down and you had to read them with NVGs, there was also a station where you had to do some writing of your own under NVGs. It was fun, and it broke up the monotony.


*ex- shoot the triangles with your rifle/IR, the circles with rifle/white light, squares with pistol w/o flipping up nods.

 

[Arrow 4]

Looks like fun.

I came up with a good one last deployment. It was a lane with pretty simple tasks like knot tying, loading/fire/clear, and engaging specific targets with specific weapons*. One of the kickers was, the tasks were all written down and you had to read them with NVGs, there was also a station where you had to do some writing of your own under NVGs. It was fun, and it broke up the monotony.


*ex- shoot the triangles with your rifle/IR, the circles with rifle/white light, squares with pistol w/o flipping up nods.

Great ideas! After the classroom portion and going over their equipment, we start their practical exercises by having them toss a football around to each other, walk on even then through uneven terrain, do an obstacle course and clear a multi-level smoke house with lots of stairs before moving to the range. The possibilities are endless with task oriented practical's. We complete the course with driving and CQB using simmunitions. I think we will probably need to expand this from 2 days to 3 as there is so much to do in a such a short period of time and guys get burned out on NVD's quickly.

 

[DA SWO]

Great ideas! After the classroom portion and going over their equipment, we start their practical exercises by having them toss a football around to each other, walk on even then through uneven terrain, do an obstacle course and clear a multi-level smoke house with lots of stairs before moving to the range. The possibilities are endless with task oriented practical's. We complete the course with driving and CQB using simmunitions. I think we will probably need to expand this from 2 days to 3 as there is so much to do in a such a short period of time and guys get burned out on NVD's quickly.

Nice, you hiring ;)

 

[Arrow 4]

Nice, you hiring ;)

Sure...at the same rate I get paid! I teach this course for free to our SWAT Assoc. however we have been contacted by a Federal T.F. in Texas about doing this course for them this summer. If that happens, I might actually get paid