Student Review: Close-Quarters Battle (CQB) May 2025 – Tony TL;DR: Fantastic class about a topic I hope that I never, ever have to do in real life. My background: I’ve been taking MVT classes for several years now. This is the third time that I have attended this particular class (ironically it was the first […]

This is the first pass over the 2026 Schedule: Texas HEAT 1 Combat Tactics: 18-21 Feb. Texas Alumni Live Fire: 23 – 28 Feb. Combat Lifesaver: 27 – 29 Mar. Private HEAT 1 Combat Tactics: 16 – 19 Apr. HEAT 1 Combat Tactics: 30 Apr – 3 May. Squad Tactics: 14 – 17 May. HEAT […]

This is a quick review of the October 2025 Reconnaissance class at MVT. My experience prior consists of HEAT 1 and 2. “What did I get myself into?” This thought crossed my mind several times the first three days. I had heard plenty of tidbits about “recce” from YouTube personalities and read about it in […]

Student Review: HEAT Squad Tactics September 2025 – Tony TL;DR: For me this is the ultimate MVT class (I know others will say Texas is, but I have not done that one and thus cannot say that myself.) I encourage you to sign up for every chance you get. Move things around in your schedule, […]

I’m looking at dates for 2026. Rather than decide / specify what classes to run, I’m going to put up some dates and ask for info on what classes you would like to see. That’s either going to work as a strategy or it isn’t! I’ll give it a try, and if I don’t get […]

This is a new three day class based around how we teach Combat Lifesaver on the Texas Alumni Live Fire Class, run out of the Romney WV location. The class will consist of: Friday: Formal instruction on the combat lifesaver protocol. This will be taught per TC3 guidelines (Tactical Combat Casualty Care) as taught in […]

Squad Tactics Class Review – Eric This marked my third consecutive year attending the Squad Tactics Class, and there’s a reason I keep coming back: it’s where everything from HEAT 1 and HEAT 2 comes together. This course lets you apply what you’ve learned in realistic force-on-force scenarios that push both your physical and mental […]

Above Photo: Recent photo of the Squad Tactics Class. As we reach the end of 2025, we still have a couple of classes that have space available: We have the Texas Classes coming up towards the end of February 2026. Those classes are looking good and HEAT 1 Combat Tactics only has one space available, […]

This is a follow up post to my previous ‘Gear Discussion: Rucks, Assault Packs, Webbing: Some Points’ post. That post was primarily to deal with the issue of carrying rucks, and talks about that aspect in detail. This post will focus on the use, advantages and disadvantages, of carrying a full set of webbing (belt […]

This all started from a post in the MVT Alumni Signal Chat, with the posting of this image and the asking of advice on what ruck to buy: This got me going with a whole bunch of information that I needed to download, and I’ll try to replicate some of that here. The ruck above […]