This 5-day (40-hour) combination semi-automatic pistol and AR platform rifle instructor certification course will prepare the new Instructor to think with a systematic, strategic, and diagnostic mindset allowing seamless integration to their new instructor assignment. Additionally, this course will provide participants with the information needed to properly evaluate and improve the basic operator’s technique with both weapon systems.
At the completion of this training, the students will be versed in the following subjects allowing them to instruct their department’s personnel safely and successfully in the use of department-issued, semi-automatic firearms and AR platform rifle systems. Safety, Liabilities issues, Operating a safe range, Zeroing electronic optics and BUIS weapons, Fundamental marksmanship, Various firing positions, Decision making, Multiple target engagement, Tactical movement, Transitioning and Malfunctions, Terminal Ballistics, Weapon operations under stress, Use of cover and concealment, Low light threat I.D. & engagement, and Instructional techniques and evaluation.
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