Dave,

You tell me to be thick skinned, yet you can't handle alittle ribbing when you ask a dumb question. Of course we have all that covered.

Like I said if you have any questions, email us, call us. I will go over everything with you. If your so highly qualified that you can shoot everything down that I'm trying to do, then why don't you call us up. Go over it with us, tell us what you see lacking overseas. Come teach a class. I'm not claiming to be some superhero. We are trying to build a quality training facility for guys like yourself to come train at. Its about building on experiences, and learning from them. I didn't know that training has all of sudden become something that we don't do anymore. If we had all the answers, we wouldn't still be losing Soldiers, Marines, and everyone else over there trying to make a different.

Have a great night.

I guess my issue, since I'm in the market as we speak for a solid PSD course, is I checked this establishments website and not a single instructor name is mentioned, only initials.

Never before seen a CEO prevent anyone from knowing his/her name before. Not putting a "face to a company" will actually hurt it's sales.

Again, just a humble opinion

V/R

You really do need to use names on your site, you list your senior firearms instructor as a certified police officer in Ohio and FL. In ohio you can pull all OPOTA certified instructors by name and see exactly what weapon systems and disciplines they are certfiied to instruct. You can also see if they are a special topic instructor or a unit instructor as well as a TOT. To often guys have claimed to be "Firearms instructors" and when you pull their creds they are only certified to teach semi auto hand gun and not tact rifle or subgun or whatever they are trying to teach. We had to throw the BS flag on a guy claiming to be a SEALl fromSEAL team 6 and a certified firearms instructor. At the time he was only certified in OH to instruct handgun not the subgun course he was trying to run... that and he was never really a SEAL but I'll let Hardnocks tell that story...you get the point.

Edited to fix SEAL. All caps is appropriate in an Acronym and is expected in that particular one.

Sorry I've been away guys. 30 days of R&R leads to more time with a saw in my hand and less time on the PC.

First, welcome to the board ABNDOC. Grats on the twins, btw.

Now, go forth and flush out the remainder of your profile. You've posted data in your introduction post that is missing from your profile. Failure to abide by simple, courteous obligations in our little slice of the internet is frowned upon. So far, folks have been kind to you, honestly.

It's been 2 days since the last post.

5 posts total and you are here to simply hawk your wares and put up links to your website where your instructors actually cite Trigger Time Valley in the resume, as though that contributes to their ability to train personnel for security operations in high threat areas.

Take this for what you will, but they're merely suggestions;
1. Contribute to the community here before you advertise. If you can't honestly contribute, ask yourself what exactly it is that you plan on teaching the cross-section of society that is the bulk of our membership.

2. Attend some training yourself. I'd be much more impressed with an instructor's resume if he had less real world experience and more qualifications and experience as an honest to God teacher. If you are the baddest ninja in the world but can't teach others how to tie their belt right, what does your resume mean to me as a student? The answer is... nothing.

3. Training is something that we still do. Your comments, from the consensus point of view, simply stink. You have presented yourself as an amateur, stepping into an arena that you seem to be underqualified to enter. If you have some good experience, as the 2 years mentioned on one of the profiles on your website, that's great. 2 years of good experience can give you lots of skills to pass on. Your website and your first impression here lead me to believe that you and your comrades lack either the substance to pass on or the skills to do so, or both.

Step back, re-group, and join in the fun. The alternative is to simply go away or be asked to leave if you continue on without honestly contributing to the community here at SAG.