I received the following email from a good friend of mine. Please give it a read as it has to do with raising money to fund additional schools for troops about to deploy and small-town law enforcement.

Hey all. I've got a favor to ask you. Centurion Training Group has set up an on-line store to fund additional schools for troops about to deploy and small-town law enforcement. As most of you know, we run two to four classes each year, as our vacation time and funding allows. All of them are 'donated' courses, the instructors don't take any pay. We've got a variety of designs up on the website (some of the pictures are embedded in the e-mail below), addressing military, law enforcement, "counter-insurgency", etc. Obviously we have no real advertising budget, though hopefully that will come around eventually.

I'm writing to ask if you could put a link or a banner ad or whatever you're comfortable with on your site. If not, I completely understand, but if necessary I can put you in touch with several different Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, officers and deputies that have attended our courses if you would like a reference (some of their letters are up on the CTG site now as well, if you want to check them out).

We'd appreciate it, and I can assure you that we're putting all monies raised to good use (everything from purchasing a new laptop/powerpoint projector to ink cartridges to print handbooks and certificates).

I sincerely hope you'll consider it. The website we're using to sell the shirts and mugs is http://www.swinginrichard.com.

Dave

Dave is a good man and has already done a few fundraisers to help out intraining troops and law enforcement.

Swinging Richard
SWAT
One Weekend a Month...
Attention Mufsiduun and Irhabists: Eat Pork or Die!

The bottom one says "Attention Mufsiduun and Irhabists: Eat Pork or Die!" 'Mufsiduun' and 'Irhabists' are the words for murderers and those who kill or torture innocents. We wanted to make it clear we weren't targeting those designs at all Muslims.

-Dave

The Centurion Training Group is the training arm of Gruntgear LLC. It is a small cadre of police officers and deputies, all prior military, who believe it’s important to help train those armed professional who otherwise might not receive anything more than what is considered minimum and necessary training. Policeman or soldier, it’s a warriors burden to defend people that cannot defend themselves—and too often our warriors are not as well prepared as they could be, if they just had the time or the money.

Mostly the money.

It's our belief that the officers and soldiers that can't afford the high-end, high-dollar training are the ones that need it the most. The same agencies and units that can afford to send their personnel to expensive courses are probably the agencies and units that have a professional organic training cadre, or at least established relationships with other cadres and training institutions. It's the small town officer, rural county deputy and young E-4 that rarely get the extra training they need. This isn’t to say that officers and operators from larger departments or specialty units don’t do without, but it’s not as likely.

That's the whole point of the Centurion Training Group. We train soldiers and cops as best we can and as often as we can, to do our part in making sure they return whole from their beat—whether that’s over in the Big Sandbox or right here at home. We have established a good relationship with AmericanSnipers.org, , the Tactical Tracking Operations School, various military units and several law enforcement agencies. We don’t charge our students for the training (though there is sometimes a cost for billeting, chow and materials) and we teach as often as we can schedule classes (this frequency being limited of course by the professional demands of the instructors’ careers and the availability of vacation time). Among the courses CTG offers are—Tracking (Visual Track Interpretation), Defensive Tactics (groundfighting and grappling), Isolated Structure Techniques (a different take on MOUT tactics inside the structure), SWAT Fundamentals and various firearms courses.