S.E.T. OPERATIONS SCHOOL
STANDARDS AND INSTRUCTOR OVERVIEW
The Security, Emergency and Tactical (S.E.T.) Operations School has been created by professional subject matter experts and exceeds industry standards in quality and content.
RESTRICTION
Unless otherwise stated, the following offered courses are restricted to those who meet the following criteria: United States Citizen or that of Her Allies AND a general member of the public over the age of 18.
OFFERED COURSES
ACTIVE ATTACK SURVIVAL
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: None
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Active Attack Survival – Level 1 or AAT-1 is a 8 hour course designed to teach the basic concepts proper preparedness and response to an Active Attack. Course students will review information on past public shootings and the perpetrators or those events. They will be made aware of what to expect from law enforcement response to active attacks. Course students will learn how to enhance security to prevent or mitigate a critical incident as well as learn basic trauma care through practical application.
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: AAS-1
- Required Equipment: None
Active Attack Survival – Level 2 or AAT-2 is a 8 hour course designed to build upon basic concepts proper preparedness and response to an Active Attack. Course students will begin to focus more on practical application of response to an Active Attack to include an internal simulated Active Attack event.
MAN TRACKING
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Scout Tracking – Level 1 (ST-1) is a 8 hour course, open to the public, designed to teach basic visual tracking techniques and procedures.
ST-1 will begin with an overview of visual tracking. This will include the history of tracking, basic terminology, self-rescue and backtracking concepts and applications. The students will then move to soft ground and learn the dynamics of human movement (footprint & stride science), basic visual tracking techniques, individual lost spoor procedures and the basics of visually identifying & reading spoor across common mediums.
Once the groundwork has been laid, students will learn the basics of micro tracking (step by step tracking). They will spend the rest of the course working in small teams to micro track their peers.
This course is intended to create an awareness of visual tracking and will provide the student with everything they need to know to begin building the skillset of Scout Tracking.
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Coming Soon
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: None
Coming Soon
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: None
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WOODLAND SURVIVAL
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- Hours: 16
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Scout Survival – Level 1 is a 16 hour course designed for anyone who wishes to have basic working knowledge in how to handle their own survival in remote places no matter what the circumstance that put them there.
This course is for all individuals that want this knowledge for future use. Emphasis will be placed on preparation, safety, tactics, and techniques.
You will run through exercises and drills that are time and event tested. In addition, you’ll learn how to remain calm before, during and after the situation, also you’ll know how to use all of these skills for your survival.
In this course you will be taught:
- Essentials for survival
- Climate and Terrain
- Camp craft
- Food and water procurement
- Hunting, trapping, and animal tracking
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- Hours: 16
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Scout Survival – Level 2 is a 16 hour course designed for anyone who wishes to have basic working knowledge in how to handle their own survival in remote places no matter what the circumstance that put them there.
This course is for all individuals that want this knowledge for future use. Emphasis will be placed on preparation, safety, tactics, and techniques.
You will run through exercises and drills that are time and event tested. In addition, you’ll learn how to remain calm before, during and after the situation, also you’ll know how to use all of these skills for your survival.
In this course you will be taught:
- Making tools (protection, fishing, hunting, trapping)
- Clothing and thermodynamics
- Reading signs
- Remote terrain movement
- Recovery
- Keeping yourself safe from injury and illness
- Survival kits
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- Hours: 16
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Scout Survival – Level 3 is a 16 hour course designed for anyone who wishes to have workable knowledge in how to handle a map and compass.
This course is for individuals that work and/or live in areas that they must know how to use these instruments. Emphasis will be placed on technique and application.
You will run through exercises and drills that are time tested. These drills will enhance your comfort in understanding the map and how the compass interacts with the map. On your next backcountry trip, you’ll be comfortable in using tested skills for application success.
In this course you will be taught:
- Interpreting maps
- Understanding scale
- Map grids and latitude/longitude
- Intersection/resection
- Compass nomenclature
- Conversion of GM angle
- Calculating and measuring distances
- Making your own maps
- Scenario applications
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- Hours: 16
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Land Navigation, Terrain Association, and Proper Movement (Scout Survival – Level 4 is a three-day (24 hour) follow-on course designed for anyone who wishes to extend their workable knowledge in how to handle a old fashioned methods of movement in the backcountry.
This course is for individuals that work and/or live in areas that they must know how to read the environment for movement. Emphasis will be placed on technique and application.
You will run through exercises and drills that are time tested. These drills will enhance your comfort in understanding the map in relation to the terrain and then navigating the old way. On your next backcountry trip, you’ll be comfortable in using tested skills for application success.
In this course you will be taught:
- Interpreting maps
- Understanding scale
- Direction finding
- Alternate compasses
- Reading vegetation
- Navigation by stars
- Navigation by weather
- Making your own maps
- Scenario applications
SEARCH AND RESCUE
- Hours: 16
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Search and Rescue Reality Based Training -Level 1 provides much needed scenario training to better equip SAR Teams. The SAR Team will conduct three scenarios based on previous real world SAR Operations. After conducting a briefing, the SAR team will move to the scenario location and conduct SAR Operations. Instructors will move with, shadow, observe and evaluate the SAR Team and each individual role within the team (K9, sUAS, Tracker etc.). After each scenario, the SAR Team will participate in a discussion and debrief session with the instructors. Additionally, training will be delivered to the SAR Team based on their needs. This course furthers the understanding of each team role as well as the communication between the command post and the SAR Team.
- Hours: 16
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Search and Rescue Reality Based Training -Level 2 is designed to increase the proficiency of each element within the SAR Team. For the first half of the course, each dedicated element (Command Post, K9, Tracker, sUAS, Volunteer, Law Enforcement, Fire Department) will be given individual training specific to their role within the SAR Team. They will conduct short scenario lanes with immediate and directed feedback, specific to their skillset, by the instructors. The second half of the course will culminate by the unification of the team, after individual improvement, to conduct a large scale scenario as a team.
HOME DEFENSE
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Students will be introduced to the current tactics used to effectively clear structures in an urban environment. The course will assist students with individual/team movement, operational planning, emergency casualty care and more.
MANDATORY EQUIPMENT:
– Battle or Duty Belt
– Eye Protection
– Flashlight(s)
– Pistol
– Rifle (Optional)
– Rifle Sling
– IFAK
– Long Sleeve Shirts and Jeans
- Hours: 8
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Students will be introduced to the current tactics used to effectively clear structures in an urban environment. The course will assist students with individual/team movement, operational planning, emergency casualty care and more.
MANDATORY EQUIPMENT:
– Battle or Duty Belt
– Eye Protection
– Flashlight(s)
– Pistol
– Rifle (Optional)
– Rifle Sling
– IFAK
– Long Sleeve Shirts and Jeans
SELF DEFENSE
- Hours: 2
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Description
To take an individual with zero skill in self defense to a foundational level of competency, including conflict avoidance, de-escalation, and physical defense.
Expectations and Goals
Students will develop the ability to recognize, assess, and properly handle a potentially life-threatening situation. At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Maintain situational awareness and use de-escalation skills (verbal jiu-jitsu)
- Perform space/distance management, posture, and footwork vs an aggressive assailant
- Perform ukemi waza (how to fall properly without getting injured)
- Incorporate basic striking defense
- Understand takedown management, e.g. developing the skill to defend against an assailant’s takedown attempts and understand how to perform a takedown on an assailant
- Incorporate techniques to escape from disadvantaged positions and return to neutral or progress to dominant positions
- Control and maintaining dominant positions against an assailant
- Perform submission techniques available to subdue an assailant and/or present options for negotiating with an assailant.
Course Overview
Required Equipment
Students will need to dress in standard activewear/gym clothes with supportive undergarments as necessary, e.g. compression shorts, sports bra, etc. Dry-fit/compression shirts and “board” shorts are recommended. Mouth guard recommended but optional.
Additional information
This course, like all exercise, requires substantial physical exertion. It also requires close physical contact with other students. It is not meant to be a complete substitute for regular training, but will provide a solid foundation for students to understand fundamental jiu-jitsu based self-defense principles.
- Hours: 2
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Description
To take an individual with zero skill in self defense to a foundational level of competency, including conflict avoidance, de-escalation, and physical defense.
Expectations and Goals
Students will develop the ability to recognize, assess, and properly handle a potentially life-threatening situation. At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Maintain situational awareness and use de-escalation skills (verbal jiu-jitsu)
- Perform space/distance management, posture, and footwork vs an aggressive assailant
- Perform ukemi waza (how to fall properly without getting injured)
- Incorporate basic striking defense
- Understand takedown management, e.g. developing the skill to defend against an assailant’s takedown attempts and understand how to perform a takedown on an assailant
- Incorporate techniques to escape from disadvantaged positions and return to neutral or progress to dominant positions
- Control and maintaining dominant positions against an assailant
- Perform submission techniques available to subdue an assailant and/or present options for negotiating with an assailant.
Course Overview
Required Equipment
Students will need to dress in standard activewear/gym clothes with supportive undergarments as necessary, e.g. compression shorts, sports bra, etc. Dry-fit/compression shirts and “board” shorts are recommended. Mouth guard recommended but optional.
Additional information
This course, like all exercise, requires substantial physical exertion. It also requires close physical contact with other students. It is not meant to be a complete substitute for regular training, but will provide a solid foundation for students to understand fundamental jiu-jitsu based self-defense principles.
- Hours: 2
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Description
To take an individual with zero skill in self defense to a foundational level of competency, including conflict avoidance, de-escalation, and physical defense.
Expectations and Goals
Students will develop the ability to recognize, assess, and properly handle a potentially life-threatening situation. At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Maintain situational awareness and use de-escalation skills (verbal jiu-jitsu)
- Perform space/distance management, posture, and footwork vs an aggressive assailant
- Perform ukemi waza (how to fall properly without getting injured)
- Incorporate basic striking defense
- Understand takedown management, e.g. developing the skill to defend against an assailant’s takedown attempts and understand how to perform a takedown on an assailant
- Incorporate techniques to escape from disadvantaged positions and return to neutral or progress to dominant positions
- Control and maintaining dominant positions against an assailant
- Perform submission techniques available to subdue an assailant and/or present options for negotiating with an assailant.
Course Overview
Required Equipment
Students will need to dress in standard activewear/gym clothes with supportive undergarments as necessary, e.g. compression shorts, sports bra, etc. Dry-fit/compression shirts and “board” shorts are recommended. Mouth guard recommended but optional.
Additional information
This course, like all exercise, requires substantial physical exertion. It also requires close physical contact with other students. It is not meant to be a complete substitute for regular training, but will provide a solid foundation for students to understand fundamental jiu-jitsu based self-defense principles.
- Hours: 2
- Perquisite: None
- Required Equipment: Yes
Description
To take an individual with zero skill in self defense to a foundational level of competency, including conflict avoidance, de-escalation, and physical defense.
Expectations and Goals
Students will develop the ability to recognize, assess, and properly handle a potentially life-threatening situation. At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Maintain situational awareness and use de-escalation skills (verbal jiu-jitsu)
- Perform space/distance management, posture, and footwork vs an aggressive assailant
- Perform ukemi waza (how to fall properly without getting injured)
- Incorporate basic striking defense
- Understand takedown management, e.g. developing the skill to defend against an assailant’s takedown attempts and understand how to perform a takedown on an assailant
- Incorporate techniques to escape from disadvantaged positions and return to neutral or progress to dominant positions
- Control and maintaining dominant positions against an assailant
- Perform submission techniques available to subdue an assailant and/or present options for negotiating with an assailant.
Course Overview
Required Equipment
Students will need to dress in standard activewear/gym clothes with supportive undergarments as necessary, e.g. compression shorts, sports bra, etc. Dry-fit/compression shirts and “board” shorts are recommended. Mouth guard recommended but optional.
Additional information
This course, like all exercise, requires substantial physical exertion. It also requires close physical contact with other students. It is not meant to be a complete substitute for regular training, but will provide a solid foundation for students to understand fundamental jiu-jitsu based self-defense principles.