Nation's Premier Defense Training Company
Simulation Training - It Works
We are leaders in the Defense Training industry. Our Training programs are designed to train employees in the protocol for surviving an assault in the workplace. We teach your staff, what to do in the event of an attack. Using action-driven, simulation scenarios with props or live fire as need be, employees fully participate in the training to transform their mindsets from passive victims to active survivors and to create the muscle memory necessary to overcome the shock, fear, and chaos of an assault. We are the real deal and are poles apart from other forms of training – lectures, webinars, power points, and consultations as they are highly ineffective; it is like learning to swim online.
Is Your Staff Prepared to Take Action in an Aggressive Event?
The Current Threat Level
The last thing an assailant expects is a Staff trained in ProActive Defense.
ProDefense USA is pleased to offer, the country’s premier action-driven, Simulation Training
Protect Your Employees and Your Business
The Three Pillars
ProDefense USA Training Programs are Intended to Help employees Survive an aggressive Event.
Pillar 1: Awareness
Our Instructors begin by educating participants on the current threat level using data and statistics to drive home the importance of vigilance and the necessity of preparation.
Pillar 2: Response
The programs use action-driven, simulation scenarios with props or live fire per the curriculum, where employers fully participate to transform their mindsets from passive victims to active survivors and to create the muscle memory necessary to overcome the shock, fear, and chaos of an attack.
Pillar 3: Defense
When all else fails, it’s time to fight. Our Instructors drill employees on defense techniques per the curriculum that are effective for the average person as well as a military/law enforcement trained person to learn and execute.
Our Training Philosophy
The Three Pillars
Our Programs are grounded in the three foundational principles of Proactive Defense.
Awareness
Response
Defense
Our customized training programs are designed to your requirements and provide you with an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) for your facility. Your location-specific ERP includes an evacuation protocol and identifies areas that provide adequate cover and areas that are dangerous. Simulation training covers weapons training, weapons disarming, and EMT protocols. Live fire is used only when necessary. Simulation training creates muscle memory through active drills to help your staff overcome the shock, fear, and chaos of an actual assault.
Simulated Scenarios
We micro-customize training programs and develop a curriculum for our clients and conduct them at clients or our designated facilities. Simulation Training is the only methodology that adequately prepares employees to take proper action during an attack. The Department of Homeland Security clearly states “The most effective way to train your staff is to conduct mock training exercises”. Classroom instruction, online courses, and lectures can’t shift mindsets or create muscle memory.
Simulation Training shifts the mindsets of employees from passive victims to active survivors and creates the muscle memory necessary to survive an assault.
Expertise & Experience
Our instructors are veterans of the US armed forces and Intelligence Agency professionals. They have been in high-ranking executive capacities, fought wars, run hundreds of missions across the globe, worked for and alongside the Secret Service, and have been awarded Purple Hearts and other combat-related medals.
Our training team, unlike other programs, gives one-on-one training to each employee in their facility so that they are better prepared to survive an attack.
Testimonials
We have trained hundreds of people—read what actual participants have to say about the Active Victim programs (comments are unedited):
The training will teach corporations situational awareness. It will teach the importance of teamwork and communication protocols. The ability to teach and train your employees on defensive tactics and medical preparedness. The training will create specific exercises for each individual corporation
~ Mike Ryan, Award-Winning New York Police Department Law Enforcement Officer. Mike is a trainer with Active Victim.
Active shooter training is essential to increase your survival rate. We want you to have a plan of action in place for this type pf situation. We create a learning environment that prepares and empowers you to take control. Our goal is to transfer the skills of survival through practical exercises so you can know how to react. This is exactly what Active Victim does.
~ Rosa Velex-Ryan Decorated New York Police Department Law Enforcement Officer. Rosa is a Trainer with Active Victim
Active shooter is very rare, but it happens. On a global scale countries strive to eliminate the active shooter threat, although the uniqueness of it makes it quite hard to stop it. By having workplace and self-awareness is the start. Active Victim helps you gain the knowledge, but also places your safety as a #1 priority. This program adds to your confidence to help you protect yourself and others if faced with a challenge. Train with Active Victim to be proactive instead of reactive for an active shooter situation.
~ Jermaine Glover, Active US Navy Award winning Security Force Trainer and Police Operations. Jay is a trainer with Active Victim
The average response time for law enforcement to an active attacker event is 3 – 5 minutes. For those especially important minutes, you are your own first responders. If you don’t have a plan and/or you haven’t practiced that plan, you will panic and your chances of survival drops to slim. This training is a start to your planning and practicing for your business and you. Our hands-on training has been proven more effective that just listening to the lectures of other trainings.
~ Nathan Dee, US Marine, Wounded Veteran, Weapons Safety Expert. Nate is a trainer with Active Victim
“With the sudden onset of the Covid 19 pandemic, loss of employment and drops in wages have a high potential of causing an increase in work place violence. An active shooter Can arise from this. Now more than ever is the time to have the proper knowledge to recognizing a potential threat, preventing the threat and having the proper skillset to react accordingly should an active shooter situation take place.” While OSHA has not set specific requirements for Active Shooter Response Training, Active Victim is taking the initiative to establish a nationwide standard operating procedure. As more companies grow to adopt the Active Victim program, every employee across the country will know how to respond in any workplace environment.
~ Jim Arbuckle, Personal protection specialist on a Federal Assignment oversees, and US Army Veteran. Jim is a Trainer at Active Victim
“Time and again we see the key to surviving an Active Shooter Event is how quickly those involved recognize the threat for what it is and how quickly they can react to the threat decisively. Until first responders arrive, you are the first responder responsible for your own survival. Interactive force-on-force training builds the skills to not just survive the encounter, but to prevail. Active Victim provides the skills necessary to prevail in the active shooter encounter.”
~ Joe Cafarelli, Chief of Police, Ex-Swat, Detective Sargent, United States Marine. Joe is a Trainer at Active Victim
Active Victim is a prime training program that any office/workplace in the US must include. It is the best anti mass shooter program in the U.S. It has been developed by subject matter experts taking into consideration decades of law enforcement and military experience in the concrete context of mass shootings in the U.S. It is based on real experience and helps supervisors and employees alike to survive in a potential mass shooting event. It relays proven techniques for planning, risk reduction, evasion, prevention, and its unique hands on self defense training. A complete 360 program any workplace in the US must take to increase the safe place concept of the American workforce.
~ Ron Aledo, Ex- CIA, DIA – The Pentagon, DHS, United States Marine Corps, Intelligence Specialist. Ron is the COO and Trainer at Active Victim
“Learning how to disarm the perpetrator”
“The most important was to learn how to disarm an assailant”
“Self Defense, disarm technique”
“Everything is good fresh informative for me”
“That we did hands on training and not just saw a video”
“The training was very informative, I would not change a thing”
“How to handle the situation of removing the weapon from the shooter. The hands on training was the interesting part of the class”
“Within my branch/group who would be warrior 1 or 2. A reminder to check my surroundings”
“Mental awareness”
“How to disarm, how to make someone small”
“The Disarming portion, funell, short circuit, where to hit hand to disarm”
“The reality of an active shooter”
“The Hands On training with both pistol and semi automatic guns puts it into real life scenario, very informative!”
“The actual physical training and having us do it instead of watching a video (hands on)”
“Stories, History of Active Shooters , Exercises, Role Plays”
“Learning that being 4’11” does not stop me”
“Everything was so informative, I loved the training”
“Awareness for being prepared”
The Importance of being prepared by having people take initiative can be a determining factor
“This was an eye-opener for us. Simple things can make a huge difference. Loved the program and every bit of it. A program well taken.”
“Loved every minute of the training!! Working in an office with all woman, we do not see ourselves as Warriors, but after the training we were ready to take on the world. Not only did we gain knowledge on how to handle an Active Shooter situation we also gained the confidence that it would take to make a difference in such a situation. Looking forward to our future training with Chad and his team at Active Victim.”
“There are numerous ways this class educated me on what to do should an active shooter become part of our environment. For me, the defense portion was perhaps the most needed and educating piece of the class. I immensely enjoyed this class!!!!”
“It is very important that civilians get this type of training be it cities, hospitals, mall, wherever, if you want to protect yourself, the people that your love, you must be adamant to get this type of training.”