Vehicle Counter Ambush and Maneuvers Course

Tactical Options Vehicle Counter Ambush and Maneuvers Course is a 30-hour program designed to advance the student on critical skills requiring extreme violence in order to stop unsuspecting ambush-type street threats. LEOs and civilians throughout the USA are increasingly becoming exposed to unexpected threats whose only intention is to kill LEOs or cause public atrocities. Through the program, students will be exposed to actions and skill sets required to achieve success if faced with deadly street threats. Students will learn effective practices on how to be prepared to respond to unsuspecting/unanticipated threats in aggressive and accountable means to ensure survivability.

Students will go through progressive and safe building stages that will increase knowledge and skills in their everyday readiness. With their weapons platforms, students will successfully execute advanced weapon manipulation practices and engage targets in confined spaces of vehicles, perform various maneuvers on a series of threat contingencies and elevated performance drills, and know how to maximize usage of cover in immediate close deadly street encounters. Students will leave with enhanced vehicle/barricade knowledge on offensive and defensive practices, situational assessment and execution, ballistic successes, and where the failures are for vehicle penetration with carbine and pistol rounds, communication, and counter-maneuver tactics with multiple personnel. Skillsets and tactics will be validated through multiple safe live fire stages. Students will be exposed to low-light / no-light vehicle live fires interior and exterior of the vehicles. Through safe practices, students will conduct buddy-team live fire vehicle maneuvers. Students will leave with an advanced stage level of performance, confidence, and skills that maximize mental readiness for everyday unknowns. This program enforces the safety and accountability of all actions. Students will be developed through various building phases of crawl, walk, and run for the shooter to advance achievable and realistic standards.

* Restricted to LEO, MIL, and vetted Civilians only

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This 3-day Program and Course Objectives:

• Equipment vehicle set up, mission essential equipment sop development, and employment techniques. thoughts for everyday readiness
• Vehicle engagement methodologies and various counter-ambush tactics
• Weapon transition, magazine changes / tac-mag reload weapon dynamic safe handling techniques
• Barricade/vehicle shooting positions and engagement methods: rollover prone, bend-over prone, kneeling, crouching, confined space fundamental application
• Multiple target acquisition and threat reduction methods
• Ballistic impacts on glass and vehicle body penetration familiarization: offensive vs defensive
• Situational assessment requiring immediate threat reductions methods on multiple high percentage and low percentage targets
• Vehicular engagement maneuvers and counter-engagement techniques
• Single, two-man, four-man maneuver drills, procedural flows, and live fires
• Weapons malfunctions drills, clearance procedures, and threat reduction follow-through
• Multiple confined space weapon manipulation shooting drills with both pistol and carbine
• 3-dimensional threat criteria and problem solving
• Deliberate and methodical vehicle/dead space clearance procedures vs hasty maneuvers: individual to multi-officer
• Precision fire and maneuver TTPs and communication techniques: individual / collective duties and responsibilities
• Immediate action drills (IAD) individual/collective: multi-angle high percentage / low percentage shot placement, linear – 360-degree vehicle IAD drills, communication pro word actions and execution methods
• Live fire counter-ambush execution and clearing into the unknown scenarios: individual to team movement procedures, danger zone penetration condition set, split lane procedural flows, shoot/no-shoot identification, communication methods, low percentage engagements
• Care-under-fire (limited): individual/collective application, covering method while staying in the fight and providing self-aid under stress
• Tac-light discipline considerations: when to scan, barrier light considerations, light manipulation criteria
• Low-light/no-light live fire maneuver drills:  Single-man, buddy-team, small group
• Focal cognitive drills

Round Count:

• 1000 Carbine and 700 Pistol Rounds
• 150 Carbine Simms and 50 Pistol Simms

Required Equipment: 

• Carbine with mounted tactical light, sling, and optic (must be zeroed prior to arrival)
• Pistol with mounted light and holster (bring spare batteries if you have an RDS mounted)
• 5 carbine magazines and 5 pistol magazines
• Optic spare batteries, optic mounting screws, and tools (none will be provided)
• Concealable and/or belt pouches (optional), duty belt with holster / tac-belt with holster
• Carbine and pistol magazine carrier (minimum carry of two pistol magazines and 3 carbine magazines)
• Soft armor and/or tac-carrier system with plates (shooter kit, swat kit, etc.)
• Ballistic eye protection is clear and tinted (half jackets and like models not authorized)
• Ballistic helmet (you will borrow from class if you are not issued one)
• IFAK / bleeder kit with tourniquet (must have tourniquet to use during vehicle drills)
• Ear protection (noise canceling is most recommended)
• Gloves and knee/elbow pads (cars will get chewed up and there’s always someone who slices a hand on shot-up cars b/c they didn’t bring their gloves. That guy is generally me so learn from my consistent mistakes)
• Range training clothes top and bottom (bring a long sleeve top b/c of floating glass)
• Wet weather / cold weather gear (check the weather)
• Weapons cleaning kit and lubricant (Qtips and lens cleaning wipe for weapon optics)
• Water/snacks
• Note-taking material
• Chair, overhead pop-up canopy, coolers, personal grill for lunch (optional)
• Long sleeve top (recommended to cover your arms from the glass during the vehicle interior shooting blocks)
• 1 Green, 1 Blue Glow stick

Note: Students’ weapons and optics must be zeroed prior to arrival. Any weapons not listed must be approved through the primary instructor alone. Students are encouraged to bring more ammunition to the packing list. If students want to run more iterations or increase the round count dictated through the drills, they are encouraged to bring more. Students may contact the primary instructor, Jonas Polson / Tactical Options, for any questions on the packing list and/or program at [email protected] or 719-393-5686.

Cost:

$750.00

(LEO / MIL rate is $650. Contact to validate and receive discount code)