Several months ago, I mentioned an upcoming event called the High Risk Environment Course (HREC). It was put on by my good friends at the American Warrior Society. I taught a day and a half of the five-day class. I won’t go into too much detail here, because my good friend Dr. T.C. Fuller has offered to write Part I of the High Risk Environment Course covering my portions: UNLOC and TACMED.
Disclaimers
The two portions I taught were my own Unconventional Lock Opening Concepts (UNLOC) and a tactical medical class I unimaginatively called “TACMED.” I won’t bore you with too many more details because T.C. describes the class quite well. I will offer a disclaimer, though: while I would like to be, I am not an impartial observer of this class. My participation was as paid instructor. As such, my opinion is likely very biased.
Secondly, I asked T.C. to write up his observations of my class, but without coordinating it with him beforehand. He wasn’t paid to write this, I didn’t ask him to say any particular thing – these are his thoughts. Frankly he was very flattering of me, so I want to make that clear. Since we were both instructors at HREC and can’t really call this a review, think of it more as an opinion piece.
Before we begin I also want to point out T.C.’s excellent books. He is the author of the following works (please note, the links are affiliate links):
Without further ado, what follows is T.C. Fuller’s report of my classes in the High Risk Environment Course.
High Risk Environment Course (HREC)
I was invited to be one of the five instructors at the American Warrior Society’s (AWS’s) recent “High Risk Environment Course”, held in Crossville, TN from November 11th through the 17th, 2025. There, the AWS assembled 20 dedicated students with a wide variety of backgrounds, training, and experience, along with four outstanding instructors (and me).
