Tactical Training W/Spouse

TACTICAL TRAINING WITH SPOUSE COURSE

The Carry Guy offers a long and growing list of course options, and Team Tactics is new. Most of those courses focus on individual skill improvement, so what is the reasoning behind offering a course that is designed to teach two people to help one another in the event of a shooting? Simple—having a person with you that knows how to handle a deadly encounter greatly increases the odds of getting out alive.

Who’ll you be with if you find yourself in the midst of a violent attack? It’s impossible to say, but the odds are that it will be the person with whom you spend the most time. For me, that’s my wife Erika, and even though she’s a good shot and skilled with a firearm, the Team Tactics course helped me realize that my wife and I need to have more than good shooting skills—we need the tactical knowledge to support one another and help neutralize a threat, whether that’s in our home, in our place of worship, on vacation or while simply running errands. (SIGN-UP HERE)

How Team Training Works

Team Tactics is more than simply a training course to improve your skill with a handgun. It’s as much about developing a defensive mindset for you and your partner and, perhaps as importantly, learning how to communicate effectively and serve as a useful teammate. The scenarios presented, like the one above, are less about accurate shooting (although handgun handling is a crucial element of team training) than they are about using the resources available to you. And your primary resource in team training is a knowledgable partner. The key is to learn to rely on your training partner’s eyes, ears and marksmanship skills to effectively harden your defenses. Two people can visually cover far more areas than one person, and as the training unfolds, you begin to learn to divide responsibility in a confrontation without using verbal communication. When your partner is engaging an armed attacker you can visually assess what’s going on elsewhere. While they make a 911 call for help you can cover them, and if one partner is injured the other can provide assistance getting to cover or return fire until help arrives.

None of us want to become involved in a deadly confrontation, but the best defense is proper training. Having a partner who understands that and upon whom you can rely during such an encounter reduces the odds of being a victim. Humans naturally feel more secure when we have others around us; we’re social creatures. But when you and the ones closest to you are on the same page with regard to personal defense and tactics, you increase the odds of surviving an attack.

Prerequisite: Attendees must have at the least completed a Level 2 handgun course or its equivalent.

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