Ready American. In omnia paratus.

Instructors

Lessons from more than twenty years of military and law enforcement service, taught so you can use them.

Lead instructor

Ryan

Ryan@rapds.com

Multistate locations.

Ryan started as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division and later served as a sergeant in a combat engineer battalion, including two combat deployments to Afghanistan. In law enforcement he has served as a police officer, chief of police, and deputy sheriff, and he has trained officers at multiple agencies.

He has been a law enforcement firearms instructor since 2017, from basic weapons handling through advanced work, for current and retired officers. The classes cover safe and effective use of firearms for personal defense, and home protection from a law enforcement point of view.

Ready American started from a 2018 idea: one-on-one and small-group training in firearms safety, use, and ways to detect, deter, and defend against crime. The preference is to travel to the student when a safe range is available, instead of making everyone come to one town.

Learn the skills that you may need to survive the storms life throws at us.

Training and experience

  • Close quarter pistol, rifle retention, and counter-weapon tactics
  • Live-fire building clearance, shoot house, and small-team tactics
  • Police firearms instructor for handgun, rifle, and shotgun
  • Minnesota-approved permit to carry instructor
  • Kentucky Law Enforcement Council certified instructor
  • Improvised explosive device recognition and destruction
  • Instructor for handheld and weapon-mounted lights
  • Multi-hazard emergency planning for schools
  • Building search and clearance operations
  • Close-quarter armed and unarmed combat
  • No-light and low-light weapons operations
  • Ambush and counter-ambush training
  • Active shooter pre-attack behaviors
  • Ambush awareness and preparation
  • Counter-ambush vehicle operations
  • Counter-surveillance training
  • Pistol-mounted optic instructor
  • AR-15/M16 armorer
  • Sig Sauer P320 armorer
  • Sig Sauer P365 armorer
  • Glock armorer
  • Active shooter training
  • Use of force
  • Combat lifesaver
  • Stop the Bleed instructor
  • Tactical medicine instructor

Contract instructor · Watonwan County and the surrounding area

Robb

robb@rapds.com

Robb has been a licensed police officer since June 1997. He became an NRA pistol and shotgun instructor in April 2001 and taught use of force, pistol, and shotgun to new officers, plus yearly requalification. He trained as a Glock armorer and implemented patrol-rifle purchase and deployment for his department.

His case work includes thefts, burglaries, sexual assaults, and assisting the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on a double homicide. In the fall of 2023, Ryan asked him to instruct for Ready American. He agreed, and he is here to put that experience to work on your firearm knowledge.

Training attended

  • RAPDS instructor for the Minnesota permit to carry a firearm
  • NRA pistol and shotgun instructor
  • Glock armorer
  • Patrol rifle use and deployment
  • Federal Ammunition wound ballistics lab
  • Low- and no-light weapon operations
  • 3Echo active shooter training
  • Advanced tactical patrol operations
  • Use of force
  • Bicycle patrol tactics
  • Emergency vehicle operations
  • Criminal profiling
  • Crime scene processing
  • Death scene investigations
  • Law enforcement firearms instructor
  • Pistol-mounted optic instructor
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