Best training centers?

[MTMilitiaman]

Okay guys. Long story short, for several years I've been planning on joining the Army or Marines to pay for my college education. For several reasons, I may be considering other alternatives--namely that my brother is not having fun in the Army and I don't want to put my family through more years of the same stress and worry we all feel for him.
I suck with handguns and am nothing to boast about with a rifle. So beings as I may not be getting such training in the military, I was wondering where the best training centers (Front Sight, Lethal Force...) were as they are now a serious consideration for me. I am looking for no non-sense practical, realistic, and effective real world oriented defensive handgun and rifle training perhaps not in the immediate future, but very possibly within the next couple years or so depending on how long it takes to get my feet under me when I graduate in two to three semesters.

 

[neoncowboy]

You know, I recently arrived at about the same conclusion:

As much as I would love to serve my great nation carrying arms, the cost my family would have to pay would be too high for them. That and I am a little bit too suspicious of the feds to sign up with them, wear their uniform and submit entirely to their chain of command.

Love the nation...don't entirely trust the federal government...but want to make a difference.

(Sadly, I expect some government-savant agent somewhere just put me on a list of some sort for saying that...where oh where has this great nation gone

So, like you, I've committed myself to being equipped, trained and ready to defend the homeland from threats foreign and domestic as the need arises. This year has been the year of the handgun. I've gone to training at Tactical Response and learned to fight with a handgun and how to practice.

Next year is the year of the carbine. I'll go get some carbine training but will also add some long guns to my collection/arsenal/stockpile as well as rifle round reloading capacity.

I'm also learning radios, first aid, survival techniques, hunting, fishing.

So, good for you.

Dunno if these skills will ever be useful or if they'll ever be employed in some of the ways I imagine they might or against the enemies I anticipate...but hey, training is fun and whether I ever get to stop an Islamofascist suicide bomber or not, it's worth pursuing the training. Better to have and not need than to need and not have.

If you have a chance to train with Tactical Reponse, don't miss it. They are really outstanding and it will be an eye opening experience.