address realistic situations -Tactical First Aid Program
Topics Covered:
- Stop traumatic bleeding from gunshot & knife wounds using the latest pressure bandages, tourniquets and hemostatic agents
- Self care & care under fire
- Simple patient assessment techniques
- Treat a sucking chest wound and tension pneumothorax
- Field fracture immobilization and expedient c-spine immobilization
- Treat yourself and family in event of long term breakdown in current system
- Wound cleaning & disinfection under field conditions
- Injection of local anesthesia and wound closure
- Learn types of drugs to stockpile for natural disasters along with methods to legally acquire
**Class from 9am-6pm | **Students must pre-register and provide a lunch
Greg Ellifritz
- Greg Ellifritz is Active Response Training's president and primary instructor.
- Greg recently retired after serving 25 years as a police officer. During his tenure, Greg spent 13 years as the full-time tactical training officer for a central Ohio police department. In that training position, he was responsible for developing and instructing all the in-service training for his 55-officer agency. In addition to the training position, he also served as patrol officer, rangemaster, weapons armorer, bike patrol officer, bike patrol coordinator, sniper, and field training officer during his career.
- He instructed classes at the Tactical Defense Institute for 17 years and served as a lead instructor for TDI’s ground fighting, knife fighting, active shooter, impact weapons, and extreme close quarters shooting classes.
- Greg holds instructor, master instructor, or armorer certifications in more than 85 different weapons systems, defensive tactics programs, and law enforcement specialty topics. In addition to these instructor certifications, Greg has successfully completed more than 4,500 hours of documented formal training with the leading firearms, empty hand fighting, and edged weapons instructors in the country.
- Greg designed the curriculum for the first law enforcement defensive knife class ever presented at the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy. He taught that police knife class to officers from more than 10 different states for numerous years.
- He has a master’s degree in public policy and management with a focus on criminal justice policy issues and has contributed to several publications and websites including: ‘The Firearms Instructor,” “Ohio Police Chief,” “Combat Handguns,” Survivalblog.com, “Concealed Carry Magazine,” Primedia's "Personal & Home Defense Annual," “Police One,” "Recoil Magazine," and “American Handgunner.”
Class details
Pre Requisite – None
Skill Level – Intermediate
Equipment – Provided
Classroom – 9 hours
Range – N/A
Ammo – N/A
Offered – Semiannually
Class Size – 20
Cost – $225
Upcoming Courses
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