Battle Road USA Hosts 5 Day Combat Tracking course with John Hurth, Founder and CEO of TYR Group LLC. February 12th-16th, 2014

Battle Road USA will be hosting a 5 day Combat Tracking course at our facilities in Central Texas, from February 12th-16th, 2014.

This is the 5 day Combat Tracking course which will be taught by John Hurth

John Hurth-TYR Group

of TYR GROUP LLC., out of Louisiana. John Hurth is a former American soldier, Ranger, and Special Forces ODA Team Member until retiring. After serving his nation as a soldier, he began teaching other soldiers when he opted to take the position of lead instructor for the Army's Combat Tracking School out of Ft. Huachuca Arizona. After his term of teaching at Ft. Huachuca, John founded his current company TYR Group LLC. John is now willing to teach you the things that he was able to learn during his over two decades of military service and multiple combat deployments.

The difference in this class and some of the others is that John Hurth is not going to teach you a bunch stuff he learned at some school. He has walked the walk. He tracked human quarry, alone and as part of a team, until he was able to find fix and finish them. And this is what you will be learning from him.

How to use the sign left behind by your quarry to develop a comprehensive picture of your quarry which you will then use to help you predict your quarry's intentions/behavior/movement/, allowing you to find fix and finish your quarry. Be it an elk in Colorado, a missing child in your neighborhood, tracking a group of poachers on your land or working as part of a deployed combat team in a forward operating area.

If you are a Law Enforcement Officer, this is a great course for you. It can help you stay on top of a hot trail and continue to put pressure on your quarry even without a K-9 presence, or until one arrives. 

If you are active duty or reserve military in combat arms, this course is a possible game changer for you and your unit. The skills and techniques you will learn in this course will be some of the most valuable skills you can have at your disposal, to serve you and the needs of your unit.

If you are working with a private group in order to better prepare yourself for possible hard times, such as grid down situation, this would be a great course for you. You can take the stuff you learn in this course back to your group and begin putting together a team to be able to work as Combat Trackers in a possibly hostile environment. Using sign left behind to tell you who has been operating in your area and what they have been doing. Who stopped and watched you from a distance, how many were there, how long they were there, what they were looking at and when. 

"Always the Hunter"

On top of all of this, you will be attending the course alongside some of the best folks you will ever meet. The folks who attend these courses are the best our nation has to offer. I know, I have been taking courses like this and meeting the best folks in the nation for a while now, and it is one of the reasons I continue to take them.

We recommend that you camp at the range where we will run a base camp each night for the duration of the course, there is no charge for camping. Or you can stay in one of the local hotels in Temple, Rockdale or Cameron. You can easily find accommodations by googling "hotels in Temple, etc" Regardless of whether you camp or hotel it, we will be holding informal "classes" around the campfire each night during the course.  

These 5-Day Courses will cost $700.00 per person for our Standard Rate; $650.00 per person for our Military & Law Enforcement Rate. The course will be conducted completely in a field environment. A minimum of 10 Students is required in order for the course to be conducted. Optimal student to instructor ratio is 10 students to 1 instructor. 

(This class session is a 50 + hour week course)

The 5-Day Combat Tracker Course is designed to teach military personnel basic visual tracking techniques that begin at the individual level and progresses to conducting a tracking mission as a member of a Combat Tracking Patrol. Students who complete the course will also be presented with a certificate of completion.

For prospective clients wanting to host a course at your location: Additional course costs may be assessed based on based on travel requirements, and training location. Please contact us at info@tyrgroupllc.com for a quote. Include your training requirements and location.

REQUIRED ITEMS LIST:
This is a basic list; remember you will be out in a field environment for the full 5 days.
- Serviceable uniform
- Hiking boots with a non-military tread (must be broken in and have a good tread)
-Binoculars (optional)
-GPS/Lensatic Compass
-Knife
-Watch
-Flash light with colored lenses
-Load Bearing Equipment
-Individual Weapon (Rifle- if you don’t have a rifle, please let us know)
-Assault Pack with a 3 liter Hydration System
-Poncho (optional)
-30 feet of 550 cord
-Pencil
-Paper
-Retractable Tape measure
-Gloves
-Camouflage stick, compact or cream
-Seasonally appropriate hat, outerwear, and underwear …(Under Armour underwear is recommended)
-Good quality insect repellant with Deet (spring, summer, and fall)

**Enough food and water for the entire time in the field.

** Must be in good physical condition and able to walk 4 - 12 miles per day for five continuous days over rugged terrain. 

    

Note: Pace of the class is dependent on students tracking capabilities, and not the instructor’s pace.

Now, you read the note above that says "be able to walk 4-12 miles a day for five continuous days", but I want you to also read the note written by John Hurth below-

Note From John:

We have received a few questions asking,

 

A note from John-

We have received a few questions asking, "how physically strenuous are your tracking classes?" Since TYR Group began our tracking classes, we have had male and female students attend who were as young as 16 and as old as 67 years of age. The amount of distance a student may cover during our classes is based on their individual tracking ability as well as their team that they will be operating in. The level of difficulty may also depend on terrain and weather as well. We set up a base camp that we start from and return to every day. The amount of weight you carry each day depends on what YOU need to sustain yourself during the days training, such as food, water, extra clothing, or other survival items. Your camping equipment is whatever you are comfortable with. I don't make it a requirement that students remain in the camp over night. We try to keep the cost down for our customers. Our students do have the option to stay at a hotel, however it is their responsibility to make it to training on time, with the proper equipment ready to train. Depending on our customers' needs, our tactical tracking courses can be modified to meet their training objectives. If you have any questions concerning our classes please contact us at: info@tyrgroupllc.com. 

Always the Hunter, Never the Hunted!

John

If you have any additional questions about this course, please feel free to contact me by email at rwvarangescout@gmail.com or by phone at 254-217-1325

Michael Adam

BattleRoadUSA

BattleRoadUSA, Fighting Shotgun Course September 16, 2012

BattleRoadUSA ran our initial "Fighting Shotgun" course on Saturday, September 16th, and despite cold rain pouring down on us for a good portion of the class, the course was a success. I think everyone who attended learned a great deal about their shotgun and how to run it.

Most folks, well, most folks in the gun culture, keep some sort of shotgun in their home for defensive purposes, but that shotgun generally sits there all year long, never getting any use other than an occasional wiping down and oiling, or perhaps a few rounds at a tin can or maybe a round at a paper target.

A bit of rain never stops a good training day

And the individuals who might have to use that shotgun to save their own or their loved ones lives, usually take no time to learn how to use the shotgun for that purpose. They believe in their minds that when the time comes, they will be able to summon up any and all the skills it might take to use that shotgun, in the way it will be needed to be used, to stave off danger or save their lives.

Unfortunately that is not the best time to learn those skills, or to learn that a short brass shot shell might seize up in the barrel, or that the pump gun's stroke is too long, or the gun's furniture is too slick in the rain to allow them to fire as rapidly as needed. If they have never learned how to make a combat load under pressure, so that they can get a shell into the chamber in the critical, few seconds it takes to go from running the gun empty, to having another shot ready, they will not be able to magically conjure the skill that day. All they will have with them is what they have learned and practiced previous to the encounter.

Making a combat reload, from the pocket, at the end of  five rounds rapid fire 

We had everyone making their reloads from their pockets. It is the practice of Battle Road to try and make things as real as possible and usually you will not be wearing a cartridge belt for the extra rounds you might need. usually you will just grab a handful of shells and shove them in your front pocket and head out the door. Learning to make a quick reload from a pants pocket, in the rain with wet jeans, helps you to understand the problems you could possibly experience, some day, in the rain......

The guys also practiced doing shell load changes in a loaded shotgun. Most defensive shotguns end up being loaded with buckshot. It is the most practical round to have ready in your shotgun. But, you might end up in a situation where a round of buckshot is not going to cut it. Maybe the target is too far away, or the target is mixed in with friendlies and the shot will require a slug.

A lot of folks have a shotgun magazine loading preference that they initially have loaded in their shotgun's magazine, or have slugs and buckshot placed in carry racks on their shotgun so that they can select slug or buck on reload, but, you need to be able to open the breach and take out the buckshot and replace it with a slug at any time you need it. The students practiced this drill and then made slug shots on steel targets at distance.    

The best way to find out how you and your gear does in the rain, is to fire 200 rounds in the rain

Certainly the fact that it was raining all day made a difference in the training. But, I never curse inclement weather on training days. Very seldom does anyone pick an inclement weather day for their own personal range day training, which means they usually never train in inclement weather on their own. The problem with this is that there are days that it will be raining or cold or hot or any number of weather variations that a shooter might have to deal with, and they all will have an effect on the shooter. On how the shooter deals with the situation, and the effects of weather on the shooters gear.

They might find out that the shotgun fore-grip is slick in rain and hard to cycle quickly, that getting additional rounds from a front pants pocket is more difficult when the pants are wet or that with rain gear on, it slows down a handgun draw from concealed etc. Hard to figure a lot of this out without experiencing the difficulty in it first hand. So never lament inclement weather on training days, it helps you become prepared for it and finding out what you will face during inclement weather during training might make the difference in a real world situation where your life hangs in the balance.