The RTO Basic Course's task and purpose is to understand tactical communications with off the shelf gear. It's a come-as-you-are class, just like it will be in a prepper's retreat, rapidly getting new folks up to speed on essential tasks who may have a wide variety of equipment. The Advanced RTO course steps far beyond …
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AmRRON Dark Labs, the creator of the excellent ADL-1 One Time Pad Generator, has a new home and a storefront. Check out their new home, Partisan Labs, and while you're at it, pick up one of the OTP printers. As the students in the last Advanced RTO Class learned, One Time Pad generation is a …
This review comes by way of Johnny Mac, with the original posted on his forum, Unchained Preppers. It's an excellent, no-BS site with good like minded folks. John and his team do a good job of keeping the trash out. You can read the first review of the Advanced Course here. ********** What: This AAR …
This post originally appeared on American Partisan. I had the pleasure of finally getting JC Dodge down for a class- we've been trying to make it happen for a while now and the schedules aligned. The RTO Basic course was a packed house with people of literally every experience level and a broad array of …
This review comes from Holy Serf, a well-seasoned former Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. Where the RTO Course leaves off, the Advanced RTO picks up. The basic course covers tactical communications, addressing the concerns of a group in a retreat setting or small unit on a patrol. Advanced RTO builds on those skills while covering clandestine …
I've been burning the midnight oil trying to get as many people and groups trained as humanly possible over the last couple of months. Rough times are definitely on the horizon, and as I tell everyone in my classes when asked, the best thing you can do is train. Get off the internet, get off …
Here's a few snapshots from last weekend's First Line Course. In the first day's afternoon, students were instructed on the basics of temporary survival shelters, protecting against thermal loss and constructed their own to live in for the duration of the course: A short primer on off grid cooking and a stew for the class: …
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The third review for the incredible weekend and experience comes by the way of AmRRON Corps member and AmRRON Dark Labs project developer, Sprocket. He is quite a capable and incredibly knowledgeable radioman in his own right, as well as a man I'm proud to say I've met and will be working with in the …
Every class is a humbling experience. The opportunity to meet and arm good people with the knowledge and resources to make themselves and their groups better is one that I do not take lightly. At the behest of the staff at American Partisan, we brought the RTO Course to Montana and the American Redoubt. It …
Just one week out until the 8-9 SEP RTO Course at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds. Its going to be a packed class. Students aren't required to bring anything other than a notebook, pen, and something comfortable. There's going to be a lot of notes packed into two days of instruction and hands on exercises, so …
