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Posted: 10/7/2024 12:31:08 PM EDT
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Team TNVC just closed out a great Nightfighter 101 at Badlands Tactical in Grandfield Oklahoma. Badlands is a wonderful facility with on-site lodging, superb ranges, and an outstanding host. Bobby runs a great ship and goes the extra mile to ensure that training and student requirements are met and then some. Badlands is one of our key training sites and we’ll be there for a long time. Weather was about perfect, but since it’s Oklahoma in the early fall it was a little warm. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid-50s. Illum was at approximately 17% and as we experienced sunset and thermal inversion, students got to see how their image intensification tubes, and other supporting gear performed in a challenging light environment.  Student make up for this class was a good mix of LE/armed pros, fellow instructors, and average earth people. We had some local PD senior leaders out to assist and audit the class, they were a super addition to the class and were able to communicate to our LE students in a common language. Thanks for coming out fellas. While we experienced almost ZERO gritty dry weapon malfunctions (apparently lubing those guns is catching on, weird), we saw some interesting hardware related malfunctions. Funky triggers (non-GI pattern) and old magazines are a recipe for malfunctions that just ends up distracting the student from the training objectives. Additionally, we had a MAWL propeller cap pop off…we’ve never seen that before. A quick trip to a white light area and some tools fixed that. It pays to conduct pre-training checks on all of your gear, and while on breaks, check everything again. Training under NVGs around people you don’t know or train with is inherently higher risk training. These classes are not the place to “be on your own FTX” or “do your own thing.” At the entry/basic level, students and instructors alike have to be on their A game and pay attention to their surrounds, pay attention to what they are doing and most importantly, listen to and understand guidance. Super solid class in the end, great bunch of students and Badlands is a great place to train. Come on out and see us for your low light and no light training requirements, 2025 course dates are live at TNVC.com/training! Finally, several companies offer up support to our training program, and we would be remiss if we did not thank them as well. Give them a look, these are the guys that are supporting you when you train and fight: Blue Force Gear Thyrm Otte Gear Unity Tactical Defense Mechanisms Subrevtech Cloud Defensive Koffinwurks Retention Ring SLIP2000 |
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[email protected]
(909) 796-7000, ext 251
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Excellent training class! Instructors were great with real world experience, and many students are local LE, so it was great to train with them too. Great leaning experience. Worth the drive down to Granfield, OK. Use reliable rifle and handgun. Know your equipment. |
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I was fortunate to attend this class with some other really great students and wanted to provide some feedback: I got everything I expected to get from class, which was a formal overview of modern headborne night vision systems as well as the accompanying equipment. It didn't stop there however... While it isn't a class you show up to without some basic rifle fundamentals under your belt, it was a really good refresher on proper rifle/sling use, so I think anyone taking this is really getting their money's worth out of it. Looking back, I'm surprised at how much material was condensed into this course. The opportunity to throw white light into the mix was critical. After owning and using night vision it's easy for many people to neglect white light training. This class reenforces that each technology is a separate tool that has its own deliberate use case, yet explains how they can overlap in some situations. It was a humbling experience, as I found out just how difficult it can be to do simple tasks such as reloading your rifle/pistol with limited field of view, and something as simple as reholstering a pistol can hang people up (myself included). It motivated me to revisit many fundamentals and not take anything for granted. Some more specific takeaways: For the average guy going to the range and training alone, it's easy to develop bad habits. The moment you introduce working around other people, you have to take way more safety factors into consideration. Proper ready positions become far more critical so as to not pose a risk to your teammates. I learned some really good risk mitigation techniques from this block of instruction. These are all lessons learned that you can't really get without a seasoned instructor there to see the small details and your movements, and then make corrections on the spot. We were taught some very deliberate methods of checking gear pre and post engagement of targets. It ensures you have what you need when time and visibility are limited. It also means that you are aware of the condition of your equipment once the "fight" is over. Without spoiling things for people who haven't taken the class, I walked away feeling more competent overall and with a clear direction of what I needed to work on moving forward. So it's an absolute success in my book. There were many elements to class that continue to give me new perspectives, and I now possess more material to work into my own training regiment. The Badlands Tactical facility is top notch also. Thanks Joe & Mike for the great class, and to the TNVC team as a whole for the opportunity to go. Also wanted to say just how much I enjoyed meeting other students. There is value in being around other like-minded people and I think highly of everyone who showed up. It was fun talking to all of you. |
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