Instructors
Nick Rians
Former US Marine – 2/4 Infantry Battalion
- Urban Warfare Specialist
- Rifle Range Instructor
- Squad Tactics
- Close Combat Instructor
- Infantry Platoon Sgt
- Participated in Multiple operations in the Middle East
Former Police Officer
NRA Certified Instructor – Handgun, Rifle, Shotgun, and Protection In The Home
USCCA Certified Instructor & Training Counselor
Executive Protection Specialist
- Provided EP for high value executives & families
- Executive protection for Hollywood VIP’s
- Provided protection for battered women & children
Martial Arts Background – Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Kenpo, American Boxing, Krav Maga
Micah Noe, COTA/L
US Air Force Combat Search and Rescue Veteran, 11 years:
- Combat Rescue Flight Engineer 33rd Rescue Squadron
- Special Missions Aviator Instructor 512th Rescue Squadron
- 5 Afghanistan deployments
- Graduate Combat Survival Training Course
NRA Certified Instructor:
- Pistol, Defensive Pistol, Rifle, Concealed Carry, Personal Protection in the Home, Personal Protection Outside the Home
Additional Skill Sets:
- Owner/Lead Instructor at High Desert Training Partners
- USPSA competitive shooter
- New Mexico Police Officer Standards and Training precision rifle certification
- Certified Sig Sauer armorer
- Professionally Trained Chef
- Gun Fighter Academy Bus Driver
- Camp Shrink (in case you need to talk about your feelings and get snuggles after class)
Tim Proctor
- 21 years of Law Enforcement Experience.
- Currently 9 years as Supervisory Federal Agent. Have been assigned to USMS Fugitive Task Force, DEA Task ForceIncluding under cover work with the DEA, Team Commander of Narcotics TF and Team Commander of ERAD Team
- Prior spent 10 years as a Patrol Officer
- Assigned to SWAT as Entry and Sniper
- Holds multiple private, state, and federal firearms instructor certs
- Chemical Munitions Instructor
- Active Threat engagement instructor
- Control tactics instructor
- Martial Arts for over 15 years
- Tai Kwon Do
- Jujitsu
- Jeet Kune Do
Chad Caudy
Firefighter/EMT since 2002
- Worked at a high call volume department in southwest Ohio before relocating to middle Tennessee where he has been a Firefighter/ Engineer for the last six years.
SWAT Entry Team Member
SWAT Medic
- Trains regularly in sporting and tactical shooting applications, emergency/ tactical medicine, Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu.
Certifications
- NFPA Fire Instructor
- TECC Instructor
- Stop the Bleed Instructor
- NRA Instructor
- NRA Range Safety Officer
Former male stripper nicknamed “CANDY CANE”
DJ Calloway
- Attended all GFA camps
- USCCA Certified Instructor
- Shooting long distance for 6+ years
- Reloading precision rifle rounds for 4+ years
- Team Safari competitor
- Made multiple 2k yard shoots
- Longest distance shot to date 2560yds
- Has over 200 coyote kills
- Has over 1000 rock chuck kills
Ryan Romero
Experience
- 12 years experience working in large caliber applied ballistics and explosives experimentation with the DOE and DOD
- GFA Alumni
- USCCA Instructor
- USPSA competitive shooter
- Black Rifle competitive shooter
- Competition Dynamics, Team Steel Safari, Precision Rifle competitor
- One confirmed lizard kill with an RPG
Other Skillsets:
- Ex-Team Green Kawasaki Sponsored professional motocross/off-road racer
- USMCA Certified motorcycle coach
- Stop the Bleed Certified
Alex McCash
- Clinical instructor – USAF Pararescue Program
- Field Operations Supervisor, Albuquerque Ambulance Service
- Bachelors of Science from University of New Mexico with focus on:
- Emergency Medicine
- Mountain and Austere Emergencies
- High Angle Search and Rescue
- Ground/Air Critical Care Paramedic
- Stop the Bleed Instructor
- CPR, ACLS, PALS, PHTLS
- NFPA Level II Rope Rescue Tech
- NMDPS CCW Instructor
- USCCA Instructor
Paul Deese
- Attended multiple GFA classes
- Attended multiple other classes with well known instructors
- Stop the Bleed certified
- Actively shooting for the past 15+ years and training regularly for the past 7+ years
- Worked in several gun shops and constantly tinkering with new products and setups
- Certified Aircraft Mechanic for 10+ years
Certifications
- USCCA Instructor
Bryan Preston
- Owner of Martial Arts School Since 2007
- Black Belt Jiu Jitsu
- Krav Maga Level 2 Instructor
- 3rd Degree Black in Taekwondo
- 5 Year Training Filipino Martial Arts
- Instructor For Law Enforcement Agencies
- One of the Original GFA Instructors
- Can Do The Splits Like Jean Claude Van Damme
Tell Lowrance
- GFA Premiere Media Representative
- 2nd year working with Gun Fighter Academy continuously risking my life to make you look cool.
- Pulitzer Prize Candidate For photos taken across Europe including the U.K., France and Ukraine
War Correspondent
- Two journeys into Ukraine
- Embedded with soldiers, civilians, NGO’s and humanitarians
- Various articles and photographs published
- Professional Photographer
- Reality
- Action
- Weddings
- Landscapes
- Nightscapes
- Portraits
- Sporting and Events
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