Posted: 8/10/2012 10:05:21 AM EDT
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So i've been looking into becoming a firearms instructor and was curious if the guard would pay for it? Ill be returning here in the next 2 or so months from my current deployment, and just havent had time to run to the education office. I have yet to use any of my funding for school yet, so with that being said anybody know?
Or would it not be worth my time to try and go that route and just use it all for actual college courses? And just pay the the Instructor classes out of my own pocket? If im in the wrong section just steer me in the right direction please. Thanks! |
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I had a unit that was going to pay for me to attend. After day one of the class I made the determination that there could be an ethics issue if I wanted to use my certifications on the outside to conduct civilian classes. I called the LT and had them stop the payment and paid for the class out of pocket. It was local so there wasn't any travel expenses. Later after returning to the unit there was an uproar as others wanted to attend the course and I was the test case for either recommending it or not. Since then I've taken multiple NRA courses and USA shooting coaching schools.
The Sig Sauer Academy has a GI Bill eligible list of classes ..... Here http://www.sigsaueracademy.com/vafunding/ USCGA Shooting Sports |
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The Guard most likely NOT pay for an NRA course.
However, you may want to consider putting in for the current equivalent of what used to be called the Small Arms Instructor/Range Operations Course and Master Marksman courses. They are held at Camp Robinson in Little Rock The two courses have been consolidated into the Master Gunners Course http://www.arguard.org/mtu/SAMG_new.html, which I don't absolutely agree was a good move based on my reading the current course description. SAIROC used to familiarize you with the various weapons systems and the minutae of running a range correctly, while the Master Marksman course was all about shooting fundamentals and teaching medium to longer range marksmanship knowledge correctly. I don't think they should have been combined, especially with the Armys supposed re-focusing on marksmanship fundmanetals over the last few years. Other courses they still teach are the SDM and sniper courses. http://www.arguard.org/mtu/index.html The courses used to be funded by NGB but that changed years ago. Even though they are not NRA courses, you will be helping your unit out by being the go-to guy on marksmanship topics for a few years......hope you like running ranges  and PMI
edit: I realize that your post was more about the GI bill paying for the NRA course, and what I posted above doesn't really address that..... |
