CIVILIAN TRAINING

Training with a focus on safety and awareness

Giving you the knowledge and skills to legally protect yourself and your family is our primary goal. From the person with no experience with guns and exploring if that is a good choice to enhance their safety through advanced weapon employment skills and Force on Force tactics courses, our instructors focus on safety and situational awareness. The best fight is the one that you are able to safely avoid, however there are times when lethal force is the only effective choice. If that time comes, our training will give you a solid foundation of skills to effectively defend yourself and your family.

Prices listed are for classes provided by our Mobile Training Team IN THE MIDDLE TENNESSEE AREA. OTG reserves the right to adjust class pricing due to travel and expenses for any or all training offered outside of the local area.

Civilian Training Courses

Level 1 Pistol

The OTG Level 1 Pistol class is the next step in your concealed carry education after you receive your Handgun Carry Permit.  During this 8 hour class we will cover everything that your concealed carry class didn’t.  This class is full of quality time on the range. Learning to adapt a proper fighting platform, grip, and trigger press, how to draw your handgun from a holster, reloads, different ready positions and movement with a handgun.  Best of all you will be able to perform multiple repetitions to ingrain these new tasks. These newly learned skills will enhance your ability to protect yourself and your family. Graduates will leave training with new found confidence and a self training plan for continued advancement.

Level 2 Pistol

The OTG Level 2 Pistol class is designed to continue your education in self defense with a handgun.  We will cover weapon malfunctions, shooting on the move, proper use of cover and creating distance to improve your ability to survive the fight.  These newly learned skills will enhance your ability to protect yourself and your family. Graduates will leave training with new found confidence and a self training plan for continued advancement.

Upon completion of this class, students will be able to compete for the OTG Knight Patch.

Own the Night

Bad things tend to happen most frequently in the dark. Through training and awareness we can gain both confidence and safety when we find ourselves in this environment. This is an 8 hour introduction to Low-light Handgun course providing students the skills and knowledge necessary to illuminate, identify and if necessary engage threats in low light environments. Students will learn comprehensive skills, techniques and applications of weapons and handheld light manipulations, in a spectrum of full light to extreme low light conditions. At the end of the course, Students will be able to understand low light vision, hand held / weapons mounted light selection and set up, and shooting in low light conditions.

Graduates receive an OTG diploma and a Streamlight Protac 1L-1AA flashlight

ADVANCED CARBINE

This is a 20 Hour 2 Day Advanced Carbine course. This course takes you far beyond the typical Carbine Standards. You will be taught up to date manipulations skills while deploying your rifle from 0-100 meters.  This course will require a great deal of movement, engagement speed, intelligent use of cover and ever increasing accuracy standards. No matter your entry level you will leave this course a much stronger shooter with a clear understanding of your capabilities with this weapons system.

The OTG Advanced Carbine class forms the backbone of our Patrol Rifle Instructor class. You will receive much of the same information and shoot the same drills and courses of fire as our Instructor Students. This is a fast moving performance oriented course. You will be pushed mentally and physically.

VEHICLE TACTICS

This is a 20-hour 2-day course. Students will learn the skills necessary to deal with threats encountered while they are within the confines and in close proximity to their vehicle as well as how to effectively deal with threats that are inside a vehicle. This fast-paced, challenging course will increase your suitability when operating in and around vehicles. This class covers all of the material in our three day Law Enforcement Vehicle Tactics Course with the exception of conducting traffic stops.

NIGHT FIGHTER

This is a 16-hour 2-day low-light operations course providing graduates the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively search, eliminate, identify and if necessary engage threats in low light environments. Students will learn comprehensive skills, techniques and advanced applications of weapons and light manipulation, movement and target discrimination in a spectrum of full light to extreme low-light conditions. At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the low light vision, weapons mounted light selection and set up, movement, shooting in communication in low light conditions.

CRITICAL PISTOL

This is a 16 hour 2 Day Handgun fighting course. Course content focuses on those skills critical to winning the fight; aggressive weapons manipulation while adhering to strict accuracy standards under speed. Students will receive instruction covering the entire spectrum of handgun employment from 0-25 yards. Graduates will leave training having demonstrated new found capabilities of Moving and dominating threats.

Like all OTG course this is a fast moving performance oriented course which will challenge students mentally and physically.

CARBINE C.O.R.E.

This is a 8 Hour Carbine Operators course. This class focuses on ingraining weapons manipulations and building engagement speed.  Students will learn and practice proper Loading, Zeroing, Reloading, Transitions, Malfunction clearance, and post engagement process. Graduates will leave with an assessment of their current skills and ongoing self-training tools to reach the next level of performance.

This is a fast moving performance oriented course designed to push you mentally and physically.

Level 2 Carbine

This is a 8 Hour Carbine Operators course. During this class we will engage targets from room distance out to 100+ yards. Students will learn and practice realistic shooting positions, malfunction clearance, proper use of cover, weapon transitions and shooting on the move. Graduates will leave with an assessment of their current skills and ongoing self-training tools to reach the next level of performance.

This is a fast moving performance oriented course designed to push you mentally and physically. Upon completion of the class students will be able to compete for the OTG Knight Patch.

Defensive Shotgun

The Defensive Shotgun is one of the most effective and misunderstood tools for home defense.  This 8 hour course will give you the knowledge to choose, set up and operate a home defense shotgun. We will take your through selecting and modifying your shotgun, choosing correct ammo and manipulating the weapon for maximum effectiveness. When operated correctly the Home defense shotgun is devastating from the end of the muzzle out to 100 yards.  This course will give you the knowledge to properly incorporate the defensive shotgun into your home defense plan.