Bodyguardschool.com

For over a decade, bodyguardschool.com has been devoted to promoting students towards successful careers in the private security industry. Founded by Shawn Engbrecht, a Special Operations veteran and security specialist with over 25 years of experience in environments like Iraq, Kenya, Venezuela, Peru, and the Afghan/Pakistan border, bodyguardschool.com offers key training difficult to match by other security training programs. In addition to Engbrecht, who also continues to serves as an instructor, multiple other cadre bring similar experience to bodyguardschool.com, which provides distinct course options designed with parameters specific to the goals of current and future security team personnel. It should be noted that none of the instructors maintain full-time teaching positions. All are operational and rotate from deployments to teaching, thus maintaining currency in the industry.

Realizing that most violent encounters do not involve long, intense shootouts, bodyguardschool.com offers a seven-day program in tactical shooting that emphasizes situational awareness so that when an altercation does occur, security members have an opportunity to react quickly. The High Risk Tactical Operators Course offered by bodyguardschool.com is designed to take place over two weeks and focuses on Executive Protection tactics at a Florida facility. Despite the short time, students of bodyguardschool.com will undergo rigorous training to expand their skill set as part of a security team. Students may also take part in a month-long immersion program in a South American facility located in the Andes Mountains. There, bodyguardschool.com students are able to practice marksmanship and may take part in area-control exercises in a controlled environment. The 29 day program in Florida is considered the industry standard, with an intensive curriculum focusing on mission planning, leadership, surveillance, counter surveillance, logistics, and advances in addition to the standard shooting and team training classes.

Despite the prerequisite needs for physical fitness, no previous experience is required to take part in courses held by bodyguardschool.com, as the organization believes that success in the personal security industry is based on what an individual is capable of. Most importantly, attendees of any course through bodyguardchool.com need to be in good physical shape and must be able to meet the largely mental demands and learning curves of security traini