Centurion Training Group

There are a distressing number of armed professionals who receive nothing more than the minimum levels of necessary training. Policeman or soldier, it is a warrior’s burden to defend those who cannot defend themselves—and too often our defenders are not as well prepared as they could be (and should be), if they just had the time or the money.

Mostly the money.

It's our belief that the officers and soldiers that can't afford the high-end, high-dollar training are the ones that need it the most.can afford to send their personnel to expensive courses are probably the agencies and units that have a professional organic training cadre, or at least established relationships with other cadres and training institutions. It's the young E-4 Cav scout, the small town police officer, the I & I Marine L/Cpl attached to a reserve unit or the rural county deputy that rarely gets the extra training they need. This isn’t to say that officers and operators from larger departments or specialty units don’t do without, it’s just not as likely. The same agencies and units that

That's the whole point of the Centurion Training Group. We train those who need it, as best we can and as often as we can, to do our part in making sure they return whole from their beat—whether that’s over in the Big Sandbox or right here at home. We don’t charge our students for the training (though there is sometimes a cost for billeting, chow and materials) and we teach as often as we can schedule classes (this frequency being limited of course by the professional demands of the instructors’ careers and the availability of vacation time). Among the courses CTG offers are—Tracking (Visual Track Interpretation), Defensive Tactics (groundfighting and grappling), Isolated Structure Techniques (a different take on MOUT tactics inside the structure), SWAT Fundamentals and various firearms courses.

Click here to read the article God and the Operator by Michael D. Vaught, CTG