COURSE DESCRIPTION

In a real fight, you’re not alone—and you shouldn’t train like you are.

Small Unit Tactics is designed to teach civilians, protectors, and security-minded professionals how to operate in 2–4-man fire teams during high-stress, real-world engagements. This course focuses on team movement, communication, bounding techniques, contact drills, and immediate action for ambushes and evolving threats.

Students will train in both live fire and force-on-force environments, learning how to respond cohesively and aggressively while maintaining control and accountability. Whether you’re protecting your family, responding as part of a church or business security detail, or preparing for worst-case scenarios, this course gives you the tools to fight—and win—as a unit.

This is the class where “We are our brother’s keepers” becomes tactical reality.

TOPICS COVERED

• Roles and responsibilities in 2–4-man teams
• Verbal and non-verbal communication (hand signals, callouts, commands)
• Team movement techniques: wedge, file, stack, diamond, online
• Bounding overwatch: leapfrogging, covering movement under fire
• React to contact: near/far ambush drills
• Immediate action drills: break contact, hasty attack, hasty defense
• Strongpoint defense: holding and securing fixed positions
• Corridor, alley, and rural movement
• Coordination of fire and fields of responsibility
• Interior and exterior transitions under team pressure
• Live-fire exercises (where range conditions permit)
• Force-on-force scenarios against roleplayers (structure and open terrain)
• After-action reviews and team debriefs for each evolution