We would like more students to sign up for the June 26 – July 1 6 Day Combined Combat Team Tactics / Combat Patrol Class. These combined classes were originally put on at the request of students to allow them to save money on travel by combining classes. There is an economy of scale built into […]

12 Weeks to MVT Rifleman Challenge: AAR (March MVT Rifleman Challenge) With the MVT Rifleman Challenge coming up in September and with Max posting the start date of the 12 Weeks to the MVT Rifleman Challenge, I thought I would finish my AAR for this program. Everyone that has been to MVT knows that you […]

Quick Update: The upcoming Feb 2016 6 Day CTT/Combat Patrol class in Texas is looking like it is full, pending actual receipt of all deposits I have been told are in the mail. So please email me before putting a check in the mail, to check current availability. So at most we will have one […]

The next MVT Rifleman Challenge is on the 4-6 September. We have MVT Tactical Fitness Training Plans available. These are professionally designed and delivered in partnership with Hunter Allen (Olympic Coach)/ Training Peaks. Check it out at the link: One of the available plans is the ‘12 Weeks to the Rifleman Challenge – Intermediate/ Advanced […]

New: Training Calendar – on the left menu, replacing the old handwritten one. HERE. Let me know if it works / is an improvement. Also, I get questions – particularly about my mailing address and how to pay for classes etc. If you have a moment please look over the class descriptions and the website […]

Freemen: I recently wrote a post titled ‘Leader & Led‘. In a comment on that post, Bergmann wrote the following: On a serious note many times you get stuck with ppl that don’t want to be led, but rather have their own nefarious and demented reasons for showing up. Running a school give you a […]

AAR  Combat Patrol Class May 2015 By Mike H First visit to West Virginia since CRCD in March 2014. Have a long haul to get there(over 1160 miles each way) but I’ll say the trip was worth it. Any eye opener to say the least. Coming there all this way and then forming up a […]

I’m getting this posted a lot later than I intended – so apologies for that. This was my second training attendance at MVT. My first training was Combat Rifle back in November, 2014 – I invite folks to go back in the student reviews to read my AAR on that course – there is a […]

Freemen: This post is a comment brought on by observations during the last Combat Patrol Class. It is not intended as a detailed dissertation on leadership, merely comment. I do dedicate a section of ‘Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival’ to this subject. (As noted in a number of Student Reviews, you really […]