Upon completion of the required coursework, students may schedule a certification test with onPoint Tactical’s training staff. The Scout certification test will measure Scout skill sets in practical real-world settings. The Scout certification test is pass/fail, and retesting is allowed within one month. Successful completion of the basic Scout certification test qualifies students to sign up for OnPoint Tactical’s advanced level Scout courses.
Upon completion of all advanced Scout coursework, students may schedule an advanced certification exam. The advanced certification test is pass/fail, and retesting is allowed within one month. Future onPoint Tactical instructors will be drawn from those extremely dedicated students who successfully complete advanced OnPoint Tactical certification exams.
Basic Scout
This course is the basic introduction to the Scout curriculum. The course teaches the basic skills needed to operate as a Scout. These include individual and team movement, survival skills, observation and reconnaissance skills, booby traps and many other related skills required by effective Scouts. Students will receive class instruction during the day and apply their new-found skills during night exercises and simulations.
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 2/26/2009-2/28/2009, Northern Indiana
3/23/2009-3/25/2009, Boulder Creek, CA
5/21/2009-5/23/2009, Seattle, WA
6/18/2009-6/20/2009, Tabernacle, NJ 08088
8/3/2009-8/5/2009, Salt Lake City, Ut
11/12/2009-11/14/2009, Tabernacle, New Jersey
3/15/2010-3/17/2010, Tabernacle, New Jersey
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Winter Scout
The course will focus on winter Scout skills, including snow shelters, winter survival, and winter movement. The course will also focus on counter tracking in snow, hunting and trapping in winter, snow camouflage, and a host of other skills Scouts may need to be effective in winter.
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12/4/2008-12/6/2008, Near Fort Drum, NY
1/28/2010-1/30/2010, Near Ft Drum, NY
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Land Navigation
Students will learn how to navigate using a map and compass. This decidedly low-tech approach will teach the skills necessary to survive as a Scout without the latest technology. Students will learn how to follow an azimuth, locate their position, and plan a route. In addition, students will learn survival navigation that will allow them to follow an azimuth without a compass. It is surprising how few people actually know these basic yet invaluable outdoor skills
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1/24/2009-1/24/2009, Tabernacle, New Jersey
5/24/2009-5/24/2009, Seattle, WA
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Scout Urban Escape and Evasion
While on an international business trip, you are kidnapped and held for
ransom. Or, a terrorist attack closes the business district of your
city and you find yourself in a dangerous, chaotic fix. How do you
stay alive? How do you get to safety on your own?
This class provides leading-edge skills to civilians who live or work
in challenging urban environments or who may find themselves in a
destabilizing urban area during a crisis. Topics covered include
covert movement (day vs. night), the judicious use of caches,
understanding urban baseline movement and urban awareness training,
the use of disguises and false
papers/identification, lock picking, escaping from unlawful custody,
obtaining and driving local transportation, the use of "specialized"
urban gear, and instruction on how to develop urban escape and evasion
go-bags. A one day urban escape scenario is held the final day of
class.
Training will be held as follows:
SCHEDULE
Please be advised that upon entering the training facility, you will
be entering a "safe-house in a foreign country", and the enemy will
have surveilance in operation at all times. Training will begin
Thursday morning in the hotel's conference room, and run until 6:00 pm
that evening. You will be assigned tasks which will require
additional time (usually a couple of hours) into the evening after
class to hone your new skills.
Friday's schedule will be the same: 7:00 am to 6:00 pm, with
additional exercises out in the city well into the late evening hours.
Keeping an attitude that you are in dangerous, hostile territory all
the time you're in the training city will make the training that much
more effective.
Saturday's exercise will begin at 8:30 am and involve putting your new
skills and mindsets to the test in a real-life scenario lasting most
of the day until around 5:00 pm. You will be "kidnapped": hooded,
cuffed and taken somewhere dark and uncomfortable to start your day.
You will be expected to escape, find your own transportation legally
using your social engineering skills, and make your way to the first
cache location, where directions for a series of tasks using all your
new skills await.
Meanwhile, expert trackers will be hunting you down, and if they catch
you, you will have to start again from a more distant location.
Discussion and debriefing will be held after the formal exercise, so
any flights out Saturday night should be scheduled no earlier than
8:00 pm.
Be advised, therefore, that this training is extremely demanding
physically, emotionally and intellectually. You can plan on walking
around the city at least ten miles, perhaps fifteen, by the end of the
course. You will also experience a high degree of stress that you will
be expected to manage successfully. In addition to hands-on skills
learned in class, there will be long hours of absorbing as much
lectured subject matter as possible. Some of which may be disturbing
in content, as self defense and self preservation are the core topics
covered in this course.
In essence, you will be learning how to save your own life and others'
lives in an urban environment. We hope you become an expert in, but
will never have to implement these skills!
EQUIPMENT
Equipment needed is minimal. You should wear casual clothing that
will not draw undue attention in this particular city. Camouflage
clothing is probably going to draw unwanted attention, so that should
be avoided. Rain gear should also be avoided as most people use only
an umbrella on city sidewalks. The key, as we will learn, is to blend
in with your urban surroundings to the extent that you can easily hide
in plain sight.
Also, bring a notebook & pen or laptop for notetaking.
You may wish to bring extra funds in order to purchase some gear
available at the class such as lock pick sets and auto jigglers. But
no purchase of gear is necessary to participate and learn the skills
taught in class.
ACCOMMODATIONS
You are responsible for making your own accommodation arrangements. Of course,
you're also welcome to stay at any local hotel or family/friend's
home. However, due to the very extended hours of the training, you
may wish to stay within a half-hour's drive of the "safe house".
MEALS
You are responsible for your own meals, and you are free to bring food
to the "safe house" yourself or to eat at local establishments.
Please contact us at info@onpointtactical.com or 609 668-5384 with
further questions.
We are looking forward to have you join us and await your arrival at
the training "safe house"!
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7/16/2009-7/18/2009, Phoenix, AZ
7/16/2009-7/18/2009, NJ/Philadelphia
7/30/2009-8/1/2009, Salt Lake City, Ut
8/20/2009-8/22/2009, Seattle, WA
8/27/2009-8/29/2009, NJ/Philadelphia
9/3/2009-9/5/2009, Los Angeles, CA
9/10/2009-9/12/2009, Dallas, TX
9/17/2009-9/19/2009, Atlanta, GA
9/24/2009-9/26/2009, Portland, OR
10/1/2009-10/3/2009, Kansas City, MO
10/8/2009-10/10/2009, Orlando, FL
10/15/2009-10/17/2009, Nashville, Tn
10/22/2009-10/24/2009, Philadelphia
10/29/2009-10/31/2009, San Diego, CA
11/12/2009-11/14/2009, Chicago, Ill
11/19/2009-11/21/2009, Phoenix, AZ
11/30/2009-12/2/2009, Philadelphia, PA and NJ
1/19/2010-1/21/2010, Las Vegas NV Location TBD
2/4/2010-2/6/2010, Kansas City, MO
2/25/2010-2/27/2010, Los Angeles, CA
3/11/2010-3/13/2010, Dallas, Tx
4/1/2010-4/3/2010, Philadelphia, PA
4/22/2010-4/24/2010, Seattle, WA
5/13/2010-5/15/2010, Chicago, Ill
6/3/2010-6/5/2010, Louisville, KY
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Advanced Scout (The Way of the Scout)
This course teaches the student how to see, understand, and utilize terrain the way Apache Scouts did. Students will learn how to develop observation and mapping skills that will give them tremendous operational advantages. Students will also learn advanced movement training techniques that will over time greatly reduce their noise and concentric ring signature. They will apply camouflage to Scout shelters (other than Scout pits) and learn to live and move silently and invisibly for extended periods of time.
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4/27/2009-4/29/2009, Tabernacle, NJ 08088
5/25/2009-5/27/2009, Seattle, WA
3/18/2010-3/20/2010, Tabernacle, New Jersey
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Scout Trapping
This course will introduce students to the principles of “man trapping” and will teach several primitive traps to reinforce human trapping principles. Students will learn several applications of the Apache limp wire trip set. They will learn principles of both mechanical and electronic traps. They will develop skills in selection of location, trap mechanics, building and troubleshooting traps, funneling the quarry, and camouflaging traps.
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2/5/2009-2/7/2009, Tabernacle, NJ 08088
10/23/2009-10/25/2009, Conway, Arkansas
2/18/2010-2/20/2010, Tabernacle, NJ
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Tactical Scout
This course will focus on injecting advanced Scouting skills into standard military patrolling techniques. The goal is to create a hybrid set of capabilities for the Scout that will help students integrate their Scouting skills into standard military operations. The course utilizes large amounts of field time, as well as force-on-force simulations, that provide participants with hands-on tactical experience.
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8/13/2009-8/15/2009, Tabernacle, New Jersey
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Art of Camouflage
This course will cover the subject of camouflage in great detail. The course will focus mainly on personal camouflage but will also cover camouflage principles that can be utilized in a number of circumstances. Students will learn how camouflage tricks the brain-eye connection. Students will also learn why digital camouflage works, and how to apply the same principles to other types of natural camouflage. Students will experiment with creating and testing their own camouflage patterns in various settings. Students will also learn how to create their own clay-based camouflage make-up kits from natural ingredients and develop waterproof camouflage skills.
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(no classes scheduled)
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Point Man
This course helps students develop tactical Scouting skills that will aid in keeping military patrols safe. Students will learn how to detect the presence of enemies far outside the range of normal human senses. Students will learn about the “language of the woods” and how nature’s alarm systems functions, enabling the Scout to detect enemy movements at greater distances. Students will also learn movement techniques that avoid tripping this alarm grid. In addition, students will learn advanced camouflage techniques for operating on point, new human booby traps not taught in other courses, and how to detect and render useless booby traps set by enemies (such as land mines and IEDs), as well as how to detect enemy ambushes.
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(no classes scheduled)
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Counter and Anti-Tracking
This course is a three-day expansion of the Counter & Anti-Tracking segment of the Tracking and SERE courses. Students will learn how to cover their trail while operating in the field. Students will be presented with a variety of scenarios that will require them to deploy different anti-tracking techniques based on varying conditions. Participants will also be taught how to beat enemies who have counter and anti-tracking skills. This course is designed for members of Scout or sniper teams, human tracking teams, and those who operate behind lines without extensive support.
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(no classes scheduled)
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Advanced Urban Escape and Evasion
This course will add new skills to the Urban Escape & Evasion graduate but will primarily focus on field applications. Students will learn some specialized escape and lockpicking skills. Students will spend time in the city in an extensive (extended) escape and evasion simulation.
Students will be required to obtain food, water, and shelter and remain overnight in the city. They will need to avoid capture, and they will be required to complete several tests or scenarios that will require advanced students to truly apply their Scout and urban survival skills.
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4/30/2009-5/2/2009, NJ/Philadelphia
7/21/2009-7/23/2009, NJ/Philadelphia
12/3/2009-12/5/2009, Philadelphia
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Beyond SERE
Traditional SERE courses are based on one core assumption: If you are shot down behind enemy lines, you will be rescued within 72 hours. What happens if a 72-hour rescue doesn't materialize? Do you have the skills to survive on your own indefinitely without support? Can you evade the enemy while they aggressively hunt you?
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5/7/2009-5/9/2009, Tabernacle, NJ 08088
1/7/2010-1/9/2010, Near Tabernacle NJ
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Sniper Field Craft I
The focus of this class is on the camouflage skills that a sniper employs as he completes his mission. Students will learn ghillie suit construction, the proper use of natural camouflage, the advantages of digital camo, “sniper hide” construction, and many other camouflage related skills.
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4/16/2009-4/18/2009, Northern Indiana
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Sniper Field Craft II
The focus of this class is on sniper movement, insertion, observation skills, range estimation, range maps, weather recording, counter-tracking and a host of other skills leading up to the shot, as well as extraction and “escape and evasion” after the shot.
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4/19/2009-4/21/2009, Northern Indiana
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Sniper Shooting Craft
This class is focused strictly on shooting long-range targets. This includes ballistics, shooting form, trigger and breathing control, windage, distance estimation, hold-over, up and down hill shooting, and many other related long range shooting skills. It is an intense class with a heavy focus on shooting. A long-range rifle and optics are required. Please let us know your shooting platform prior to registration. No prior shooting experience is required.
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(no classes scheduled)
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Off Grid Medical Care
This class, taught by a retired 18 Delta SF Medic, who is also a Physician¹s
Assistant, will focus on medical care when structured care is no longer
available. The focus will be on trauma care care of gunshot and knife
wounds, broken bones, amputations, and other types of injuries that may be
encountered following the collapse of medical care. The class will also
include suturing, administering IVs, and setting bones. It will also
include administration of medicine, and other longer-term treatments. This
class does NOT certify you for any type of recognized medical care, and is
designed only for preparation against a time where medical care is not
available.
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6/4/2009-6/7/2009, Northern Indiana
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Repelling 101 Class
This class will teach students how to repel off cliffs. They will learn how
to an emergency harness, to properly anchor repelling lines, how to belay,
and most importantly, how to step off and repel. The class is for both
beginning and intermediate students who want to get experience in repelling
from our cadre of experts.
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(no classes scheduled)
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Scout Urban Survival
The city you once called home collapses and you suddenly find yourself in a
hostile concrete jungle. What do you do? How do you survive and thrive for
an extended period of time? This course provides the necessary skills and
training to survival for an extended period in an urban or even suburban
setting. Topics covered include sheltering in place vs. evacuation
strategies, food and equipment storage, home heating, water storage and
purification, grid-down repairs, off-grid medical care, long-term survival
supply acquisition (urban foraging), urban trapping (to acquire protein),
and home defense.
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1/29/2009-1/31/2009, NJ/Philadelphia
4/3/2009-4/5/2009, Conway, Arkansas
4/22/2009-4/24/2009, Chicago, Ill
2/13/2010-2/15/2010, Tabernacle, New Jersey
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Urban E & E (Military Only)
This extended five day course is designed to provide a (very) unique set of skills for members of the SOF community. The class is designed to provide operators with advanced skills that will increase their operational effectiveness in global urban environments. Topics covered include covert movement (day and night), the judicious use of caches, understanding urban baseline and urban awareness training, the use of urban disguises and false papers/identification, lock picking, escaping from custody, obtaining and driving local transportation, etc. The class also includes making improvised weapons, the covert use of edged weapons for quick kills, and edged-weapon combatives. Students will also learn how to defeat basic security systems, develop counter-interrogation techniques, surveillance detection techniques. Students will participate in a challenging one and a half day field training exercise where they will have the opportunity to apply all of the skills learned. Students will RON in the field during the exercise. This class is offered in Philadelphia quarterly. It is open to Tier 1 OPERATORS AND TEAMS ONLY. TS clearance a requirement. Individuals are encouraged to sign up for the Philadelphia classes. However, the class can be taught at your location for intact units. There is pre-work for the class that will aid in the student’s success.
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2/16/2009-2/20/2009, NJ/Philadelphia
5/11/2009-5/15/2009, Nashville
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Emergency Preparedness
This class is designed to prepare you and your family to survive
natural and manmade disasters. This is the first class in the series of preparedness courses designed prepare you for most any unfortunate
situation. We will introduce you to a combination of both the latest cutting edge gear and bleeding edge knowledge. The combination of the two will greatly assist in you being prepared. This class is focused on short-term situations, lasting between one to five days. Future classes build upon this course to extend your survival through a much longer time period and a host of situations from depression to famine to WMD attacks.
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3/14/2009-3/14/2009, Northern Indiana
4/11/2009-4/11/2009, Northern Indiana
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Home Invasion
With the economy in turmoil, crime rates are going up almost daily. Home invasion robberies are also on the increase. Learn what to do to protect your family. This course was designed to give you the knowledge and skills to help your family survive a home invasion. You will learn both what to do and what not to do. You will learn what kind of equipment is needed and what precautions must be taken to harden your home. This course could mean the difference between your family surviving or not.
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3/21/2009-3/21/2009, Northern Indiana
4/25/2009-4/25/2009, Northern Indiana
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Urban Survival Skills for Women
Sadly, violent attacks against women have been on the increase.
This course was specifically designed to give women the knowledge and skills needed to avoid being a victim. In this course students will learn about attacks on women, awareness, protection options, escape, anti kidnapping, counter rape, and many more emergency skills needed by women in today¹s violent society.
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2/27/2009-3/2/2009, Northern Indiana
5/9/2009-5/9/2009, Northern Indiana
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Dynamic Scout
This course will prepare participants to survive and observe, as did the Scout, gathering information from tracks and sign, and hiding from enemies. Many of the skill presented in this course will benefit hunters as well in the scouting and acquisition of game.
Students will learn awareness skills that will give them strong tactical advantages. They will learn how to read and understand the language of concentric rings, they will also learn movement (team and individual), stalking, camouflage techniques, counter tracking, intelligence gathering, and other associated skills that will allow them to move in silent invisibility. They will learn anti tracking techniques and how to detect anti-tracking devices such as booby traps and ambushes using awareness skills. There will also be some force on force training (Paintball).
This course will be slightly different from the standard Scout as we will be mixing Urban Scout Skills with the Rural Scout Skills. We will also be tasking the student with more field time demonstrating and performing several practical evolutions and dynamic training scenarios. The majority of the course will be in the field running simulations and practical evolutions. Students who have taken the Scout course will benefit from a new spin on the Scout class as well as new students learning Scout skills for the first time. We will also add a touch of Urban Scout skills requiring the student to maintain a low profile and not draw attention to themselves as they transition from urban environment to the rural environment making the transition from camper to hiker to Scout. On day one students will learn some basic Urban Scout movement and techniques and then apply those skills as they move into the campsite, set up camp and meet at predetermined areas for the Scout instruction. Most of the course skills will be taught in the field. It will be the entire standard Scout Course with a valuable twist.
Although this may appear to be an advanced course, it is not, it is designed for the Beginner and experienced Scout as well. This course is a great team building experience, a great way to bring your group together as a team. Be prepared for long hours in the field and numerous practical exercises. Returning participants who have completed previous Scout classes will have the opportunity to lead teams as well as test their individual skills under dynamic roll playing scenarios as well as introducing the concepts of duality of the Scout between Urban and Rural environment operations, a hybrid concept mixing basic urban and rural scout skills into a full 3 day weekend of roll playing and field operations. This course will be a full 3 days running scenarios and field exercises 24-7 (once in the field). Class will begin early Friday and end Late Sunday. Many individuals will benefit from this course from Civilian, Military, Law Enforcement,. Scout Snipers to Rural Surveillance Operators.
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6/5/2009-6/7/2009, St Clair, Michigan
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