Training &
Instruction
Law enforcement, military, and corporate training — firearms, active threat, human trafficking awareness, workplace violence, and situational awareness — delivered by instructors with careers built in the environments they teach.
Trained for the Day
It Actually Happens.
GS3 training programs are built and delivered by instructors who spent their careers in law enforcement, military special operations, and corporate security — collectively more than a century of instructor experience. Every curriculum is grounded in case studies, current threat patterns, and the legal realities our clients operate under.
Programs are scaled to the audience. A tactical team, a corporate workforce, a hospital department, and a volunteer safety team each face the same threats from very different positions — so each receives instruction written for the decisions they will actually have to make.
Training is delivered at your facility or at a range or venue we arrange, as a single session or as a recurring program with refreshers, drills, and documented proficiency.
Operator-Level Instruction
Advanced firearms, active threat response, room clearing, tactical medical, and behavioral recognition — taught to the standard of the teams that deploy them.
Preparedness That Holds Up
Workplace violence prevention, run-hide-fight, situational awareness, concealed carry fundamentals, and emergency response training for employees, executives, and leadership.
Houses of Worship
On-site threat assessment, safety team development, emergency operations planning, and training for greeters, ushers, medical teams, staff, and leadership.
Curriculum Built Around
Real Threats
Each program can be delivered on its own or combined into a multi-day training evolution tailored to your organization, your facility, and your risk environment.
Active Threat Training
Recognition, response, and recovery for active shooter and active threat events — including bladed weapons, vehicle attacks, and improvised explosive devices. Separate tracks for tactical responders and for civilian and corporate environments.
Firearms Training
From the fundamentals of grip, sight alignment, and trigger control through advanced handgun, rifle, shotgun, and sub-gun work, reduced-light applications, weapon transitions, retention, and concealed carry.
Human Trafficking Awareness
An awareness program for law enforcement, NGOs, and private companies covering indicators, at-risk populations, victim contact, prevention, and reporting — with case studies selected for your region.
Workplace Violence
The four recognized types of workplace violence, the factors that increase risk, and the prevention programs, controls, reporting paths, and response procedures that reduce both exposure and liability.
Situational Awareness
Also known as "street smart" — recognizing a developing situation, evaluating the validity of a threat, and acting. Covers personal safety at home, in public, in vehicles, and during international travel.
Tactical Medical
Emergency medical care in an unstable environment: patient assessment and triage, tourniquet application, wound packing, critical patient stabilization, and zone extrication for teams and individual medics.
Threat Assessment & Consultation
Site survey and security assessment producing a comprehensive risk profile of your facility, employees, and operations — with an emergency operations plan and prioritized mitigation proposals.
Behavioral Recognition
Identifying deception and pre-incident intent through baseline behavior, stress and fear indicators, behavioral clustering, and structured observation or contact — to mitigate a threat before it develops.
Houses of Worship
On-site threat assessment, physical security recommendations, safety team development, emergency operations planning, grant funding guidance, and training for every role in the congregation.
What Each Program Covers
Curricula are adjusted to the audience, the environment, and the time available — the outlines below reflect the standard blocks of instruction.
Active Threat Training
An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area — unpredictable, rapidly evolving, and frequently resolved before law enforcement can arrive. Training prepares people mentally and physically for that window.
Law Enforcement / Military
- Define active threat; case studies
- Locate, isolate, contain, neutralize
- Physiological and psychological effects
- Approach, room entry, and clearing procedures — stimulus and indicators
- Clearing hallways and stairwells
- Single officer response and link-up
- EOD / IED considerations
- Post-engagement considerations ("TW-SICM")
Civilian / Corporate Environment
- Define active threat; case studies
- Recognition of predisposing factors and perceptions
- Recognition of an active threat event
- Evaluate, plan, execute
- Run: evade if you can, know your routes, pass on intelligence
- Hide: barricade and harden your position; locks, door jams, and other tools
- Fight: training, weapons available on person or in the environment, target areas, mindset
- Communication and law enforcement response
- Developing active shooter policies and procedures
Firearms Training
The responsibility of handling or carrying a firearm is the same whether the carrier is a tactical operator or a law-abiding citizen carrying concealed. GS3 instructors bring a combined century of law enforcement and civilian firearms instruction to meet your training objectives.
Law Enforcement / Military
- Fundamentals of firearms
- Firearms manipulation
- Advanced firearms: handgun, rifle, shotgun, sub-gun
- Combat shooting and mindset
- Weapon transitioning
- Proper preparation and deployment
- Reduced-light applications
- Firearm retention
- Undercover concealed carry
Civilian / Corporate Environment
- Choosing the proper weapon system
- Fundamentals of firearms
- Stance, grip, and breath control
- Sight alignment and sight picture
- Trigger control and follow-through
- Manipulation of firearms: draw, loading, unloading, reloading, emergency procedures
- Carrying concealed and legal applications
- Responsibility and best practices
- Continuing education and concealed handgun license
Human Trafficking Awareness
Human trafficking has continued to grow in recent years, affecting millions of men, women, and children. GS3 developed an awareness program to help law enforcement, non-government organizations, and private companies identify and assist victims.
Understanding the Crime
- Use of force, fraud, or coercion; sex, forced labor, debt bondage
- Profitable transnational organized crime — an estimated $150 billion annually
- Victims across every background and location: men, women, and children
- A threat to public and personal safety, national security, and economic prosperity
- An estimated 24 million victims worldwide
- Case studies selected by region
Recognition & Response
- Warning signs and indicators
- Who is at risk
- What to say to a victim
- Prevention
- What to do and who to call
Workplace Violence
Workplace violence is any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior occurring at work — ranging from abusive language to assault and homicide. GS3 instructors help employers design, train, and implement procedures that protect people and property.
The Four Types of Workplace Violence
- Type 1 — violence by a person with no legitimate business at the workplace, including anyone entering with intent to commit a crime
- Type 2 — violence directed at employees by customers, clients, patients, students, inmates, or visitors
- Type 3 — violence against an employee by a present or former employee, supervisor, or manager
- Type 4 — violence committed by someone who does not work there but has a personal relationship with an employee
Prevention & Response
- Identify factors that increase risk
- Workplace assessments that reduce risk and liability
- Prevention program development; engineering and administrative controls
- Management and employee education and communication
- Emergency response procedures
- Post-incident response and investigation
Situational Awareness
A class designed to sharpen the ability to recognize a tense and uncertain situation, evaluate the validity of the threat, and execute actions that protect yourself and others — covering safety and security from the home through international travel.
Foundations
- Define situational awareness
- Personal safety: public, home, vehicle, domestic, abroad
- Personal protection: alarms, mace, weapons, bodyguards, K9
- Recognition and response
Application
- Rules of engagement and legal applications; personal liability
- Active threat
- Practical applications
- Mental and physical conditioning
Tactical Medical
Designed to prepare a team or individual medics for emergency medical situations in an unstable environment — from simple bleeding control and wound packing through triage and rapid patient assessment.
Assessment
- Preparation and recognition
- Patient assessment, ABCs, and triage
- Critical patient stabilization
Intervention
- Tourniquet application
- Wound packing
- Zone extrication
Threat Assessment & Consultation
GS3 site survey and assessment services provide a comprehensive risk profile identifying potential vulnerabilities and threats to your facility, employees, or operations — performed by professionals with decades of experience in local and federal law enforcement and the military.
Behavioral Recognition
Behavioral recognition determines whether an individual is being deceptive or intends to conduct criminal or terroristic acts against a business or within a particular environment — enabling a response before the situation comes to fruition.
Protecting Congregations
Without Changing Them
Houses of worship are not immune from the deplorable elements in our society — active shooters, vandalism, robbery, arson, and cybersecurity crimes among them. GS3 conducts an on-site threat assessment and delivers a training evolution tailored specifically to your staff, volunteers, and congregation.
GS3 can help develop an entire safety and security program, or place a fresh set of eyes on the program you already have and recommend the alterations and additions that make your house of worship as safe as possible.
Training gives your people the knowledge of what to do before, during, and after an incident — and connects you to funding and to the wider network of congregations doing the same work.
Assess. Tailor. Train. Sustain.
Training that is not built on your actual environment is entertainment. Every GS3 engagement starts with understanding the site, the people, and the threats specific to them.
Assess
On-site threat assessment of the facility, personnel, procedures, and existing plans — establishing what training is actually needed.
Tailor
A curriculum written for your audience and environment, with case studies relevant to your region, sector, and risk profile.
Train
Classroom instruction, practical application, and scenario work at your facility or at a range or venue arranged by GS3.
Sustain
Emergency operations plans, refreshers, drills, and continuing education that keep proficiency and documentation current.
Schedule a Training Consultation
Tell us who needs training, where, and what you are preparing for. GS3 will propose a curriculum and a delivery schedule built around your environment.