PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Train with the people
who wrote the program.

Total Defense Solutions delivers full-spectrum tactical instruction to military units, law enforcement agencies, and professional security teams. Every course is built and taught by instructors with operational experience.

All programs run at Double Tapp Range — our permanent facility in Boise, Idaho — or on-site at your location by a TDS mobile training team.

Government & Military

Full-spectrum instruction for DoD and federal personnel, built to your unit's mission requirements:

  • Combat marksmanship — pistol, rifle, long range

  • Close Quarters Battle (CQB)

  • Surveillance & counter-surveillance

  • Security detail & executive protection

  • Expeditionary reconnaissance

  • High threat driving & vehicle operations

  • CAT III/IV test and evaluation

Law Enforcement

Programs built around your department's standards — not a one-size-fits-all package:

  • Qualification and re-qualification support

  • Scenario-based and reality-based drills

  • Low-light and night-fire training

  • Vehicle-based engagement work

  • In-service & instructor development programs

Train at Double Tapp Range with exclusive range access, or our instructors come to you.

ESAMI Certification

The DoD standard for small arms instructor development — taught by the man who built it. Paul Sweeney developed the Expeditionary Small Arms Marksmanship Instructor course for the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command in 2007 and has led it ever since.

  • 80-hour instructor development program

  • Certifies instructors to CAT III & CAT IV levels

  • Range design, setup & safety procedures, lead mitigation

  • Dynamic movement & steel reactive target (SRT) design

  • Dynamic stress course design, application & evaluation

Law Enforcement

Certifiable instruction for private security firms, executive protection details, and armed contractors operating domestically or overseas:

  • Executive protection courses

  • Counter-surveillance training

  • Threat assessment and response

  • Handgun, rifle & long-range shooting

  • Shooting from and around vehicles

  • High threat driving

  • Certification documentation for compliance

WHO THINKS WINS.

Skill under pressure isn't luck — it's the product of deliberate, realistic training. Tell us what your team needs to be able to do, and we'll build the program that gets them there.