Disruptive
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OVERVIEW
Disruptive Environment, or D3, is an advanced, multi-day applications course that accelerates next-level skill development for experienced shooters from responsible armed citizens to active MIL and LEO. Building upon the fundamentals taught in D5, D3 pushes into applied, real-world skillsets and tactics: Ballistics, low-light and night vision operations, vehicle operations and cover considerations, home and business defense, and the challenges of urban vs. rural environments. This immersive curriculum blends lecture, demonstration, and deliberate practice with all your mission essential tools while shooting, moving, and communicating under pressure training students to turn knowledge into decisive action. Each participant completes a baseline assessment for safety, speed, accuracy, and manipulations to ensure readiness. Prior foundational training (D5 or other reputable organization) is required, and strict safety standards are enforced throughout.
Warning
This course should not be selected if you have not been through a foundational course with us (D5/D7 Courses) or another reputable organization/instructor. All advanced application students must have fundamental weapon safety and weapon manipulation knowledge. A baseline assessment on safety, speed, accuracy, manipulations, and movement is conducted upon arrival to determine if students current skill levels are adequate to safely proceed through the course. Students will be pulled from training for safety violations.
D3 Handgun Lowlight
D3 Disruptive Environments curriculum focuses on skill-set development related to handheld and weapon mounted illumination tools, low light principles, applications, and method development.
In addition to core topics:
- How the eyes are affected in low light environments
- Switchology and light discipline
- Single hand shooting techniques and performance enhancements
- Handheld light techniques and employment
- Weapon mounted light employment
- Adaptive shooting positions and reactive movement
- Mobility block, dynamic movements, movement to different positions to shoot and shooting while moving
- Communication considerations with family or in team tactics environments
D3 Carbine Lowlight
D3 Disruptive Environments curriculum focuses on skill-set development related to handheld and weapon mounted illumination tools, low light principles, applications, and method development.
In addition to core topics:
- How the eyes are affected in lowlight environments
- Switchology and light discipline
- Transistion to Handgun and Handheld light techniques
- Weapon mounted light employment
- Adaptive shooting positions and reactive movement
- Mobility block, dynamic movements, movement to different positions to shoot and shooting while moving
- Communication considerations with family or in team tactics environments
D3 Handgun Vehicle Lowlight
The Disruptive Environment, or D3, course is an advanced applications program tailored for experienced shooters, including military personnel, law enforcement officers, and responsible armed citizens. This course builds on the foundational skills established in our D5 curriculum, transitioning from essential fundamentals to the next level of performance in low-light and no-light scenarios, vehicle and cover considerations, and strategies for home and business defense in both urban and rural settings.
Through a dynamic multiday format, D3 integrates essential light and illumination techniques, both handheld and weapon-mounted, alongside movement, communication, and decisive shooting actions. The curriculum includes lectures, demonstrations, deliberate practice models, and practical exercises designed to challenge students to adapt and refine techniques that can enhance their effectiveness in real-world situations.
Disclaimer
This course is intended for those who have completed a foundational course (D5/D7) or have equivalent training from a reputable organization or instructor. All participants must possess fundamental knowledge of weapon safety and manipulation. A baseline assessment covering safety, speed, accuracy, manipulations, and movement will be conducted upon arrival to ensure all students are adequately prepared to progress safely.
Core Topics Covered for All Weapon Systems:
- Haley Strategic training approach to learning
- Understanding the science behind performance and creating a model for excellence
- Accelerating learning through deliberate practice
- The impact of critical stress on visual acuity and efficiency
- Stress management techniques before, during, and after engagements
- Baseline assessment (Qualification) and supplemental instruction based on results
- Biomechanics and maximizing draw efficiency
- Position work and biomechanical considerations in various shooting positions
D3 Disruptive Environments Vehicle Low Light Curriculum:
This segment focuses on handgun low-light principles, applications, and skill-set development for engagements from, in, and around vehicles in low-light and no-light environments. Core topics in this module include:
- Low-light principles, applications, and method development
- Understanding how low-light conditions affect vision
- Switchology and light discipline
- Techniques for single-hand shooting and performance enhancements
- Employing handheld and weapon-mounted lights effectively
- Adaptive shooting positions and reactive movement strategies
- Mobility drills, dynamic movements, and shooting while on the move
- Communication tactics for family and team environments
- Vehicle ballistics: windshield and body penetration demonstrations with data collection
- Engagement strategies for external vehicle scenarios
- Internal vehicle engagement considerations, including initiation and exit procedures
D3 Carbine Vehicle Lowlight
D3 Disruptive Environments Vehicle Low Light curriculum focuses on low light principles, applications, and skill-set development related to engagements from, in and around vehicles in low light/no light environment.
In addition to core topics:
- Low light principles, applications and method development
- How the eyes are affected in low light environments
- Switchology and light discipline
- Transistion to handgun and handheld light techniques
- Weapon mounted light employment
- Adaptive shooting positions and reactive movement
- Mobility block, dynamic movements, movement to different positions to shoot and shooting while moving
- Communication considerations with family or in team tactics environments
D3 Castle
Your home is your castle. You would protect it at any cost. Are you truly prepared to do so? What is required? Do you have concentric rings of security in place? Will those measures prevent entry in order to avoid the employment of lethal force? If those security measures are defeated, what are the ramifications? Our multiday curriculum focuses on skill-set development related to home defense.
Disclaimer
Although D3 Castle is a part of the Disruptive Environments family, this course is not as strict on the prereqs for enrollment. Everyone has a home and everyone should know the fundamentals and skill sets in which to defend it. In order to maximize your efficiency in learning, this course should NOT be selected if you do NOT have at least a "basic" understanding of firearm fundamentals and safety. If you are hesitant, then we would highly suggest enrolling in our D5 Course(s) before enrolling in a D3 Course.
In addition to core topics:
- Baseline assessment (qualification)
- Supplemental instruction relative to baseline results
- Concentric Rings of Security for your home
- Judgemental use of force considerations
- Involved/uninvolved communication principles and methods
- De-escalation strategies
- Basic principles of individual room/structure clearing
- Live fire shoot house shooting drills and exercises
- Live fire shoot house interior movement under duress
- Shoot house force-on-force final scenarios
D3 Battlespace Reshaping Skill Sets
D3 Disruptive Environments Battlespace Reshaping Skill Sets is the ultimate advanced applications course. The 5-day course curriculum focuses on skill-set development in team tactics environments spanning day and night settings (including NODS). Training evolutions encompass high performance range work, CQB in the shoot house, and team movements with initiative action drills including react to contact/sniper, react to near and far ambushes, react to drone attacks, working in and around vehicles, and other team tactic focused drills.
In addition to core topics:
- Principles of night vision, low-light, no light, and white light applications
- Navigating, searching, and PID techniques utilizing both NODS and white light
- White light and IR applications relative to environmental cover/structures
- Vehicle Ballistics: windshield and body penetration demonstration
- External vehicle engagement strategies
- Internal vehicle engagement considerations, initiating engagement and exit procedures
- Communication considerations with family or in team tactics environments
- Small unit team tactic initiative action
- Basic principles of individual room/structure clearing
- Live-Fire shoot house drills and exercises
- Live-Fire shoot house interior movement under duress
- Shoot house Force-On-Force scenarios
D3 Night Vision
Night Observation Devices (NODs) are game changers and a significant investment, yet without proper training, the tool is far less effective. Our D3 NODs program establishes a fundamental understanding of night vision application, capabilities, and limitations and how those factors impact shooting performance. Every aspect of fundamental weapons manipulation and employment will be executed and explored under night vision in this foundational course curriculum tailored for beginner to intermediate NODs users.
Warning
This course should not be selected if you have not been through a foundational course with us or another reputable company/instructor (D5/D7 Courses). All NODs students must have fundamental weapon safety and weapon manipulation knowledge, students will be pulled from training for safety violations.
In addition to core topics:
- NODS foundations (advantages, disadvantages and limitations)
- Biomechanics (physiology and kinesiology in shooting performance)
- NODS human eye performance (target acquisition and visual target accommodation)
- Laser Aiming Module (passive/converging zero and passive/active aiming)
- Weapon manipulations (speed reloads, practical reloads and malfunction clearing)
- Adaptive shooting positions (reactive movement)
- Mobility (dynamic movements and shooting on the move)