Track-A 
Training Tiers

Foundational civilian defensive readiness.

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Guardian Foundations establishes the core principles, skills, and mindset required for responsible civilian defense. Training focuses on safety, awareness, fundamentals of defensive movement, and disciplined decision making in controlled environments. Students learn how and when to apply defensive skills within lawful and practical boundaries.

This tier builds the baseline proficiency and confidence required to progress into coordinated, scenario driven defensive training.

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Defensive Pillars:

• Firearm Safety

• Defensive Grip and Stance

• Drawing from Concealment

• Threat Awareness and Verbalization

Partner based defensive readiness.

 

Guardian Duo builds on foundational skills by introducing coordinated movement, communication, and decision making with a partner. Training emphasizes awareness, positioning, and mutual responsibility while applying defensive techniques under controlled stress. Students learn to operate effectively alongside another person while maintaining individual accountability.

This tier reinforces discipline and coordination, setting the foundation for multi person and family oriented defensive training.

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Defensive Pillars:

• All of Tier 1 

• Team Communication

• Movement and Spacing

• Coordinated Decision Making

• Close Contact Scenarios

• Shoot/Don't Shoot

Integrated civilian defensive skills.

 

Guardian Family introduces students to coordinated defensive thinking and skill application beyond the individual level. Training emphasizes communication, movement, and decision making in shared environments while managing responsibility for others. Scenarios challenge students to apply foundational skills while accounting for positioning, awareness, and problem solving under stress.

This tier builds the bridge between individual proficiency and advanced defensive application, preparing students for dynamic and scenario driven training.

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Defensive Pillars:

• All of tiers 1-2

• Communication and coordination in shared environments

• Child safety consideration

• Home defense planning

• Movement and positioning with responsibility for others

• Threat assessment and decision making under stress

• Awareness and environmental management

• Integrated skill application beyond the individual level

Advanced civilian defensive capability.

Guardian Advanced pushes students beyond foundational skills into dynamic problem solving and applied decision making. Training focuses on operating under elevated stress, managing complex environments, and applying techniques with purpose rather than repetition. Scenarios are designed to challenge movement, communication, threat assessment, and judgment in real time.

This tier prepares students to integrate skills fluidly, manage uncertainty, and transition toward full ownership of defensive decisions in high consequence situations.

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Defensive Pillars:

• All of tiers 1-3

• Applied decision making under elevated stress

• Movement through structures

• Threat prioritization

• Dynamic movement and positional awareness

• Complex environment problem solving

• Threat assessment and real time judgment

• Skill integration beyond scripted responses

• Soft introduction to force-on-force training

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Highest level of civilian defensive readiness.

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Guardian Elite represents the highest level of training within the R.E.D. Civilian Defense program. This is the most demanding tier, placing students in high intensity, realistic scenarios designed to expose decision making under stress, personal accountability, and composure under pressure. Training emphasizes integrated thinking, lawful force application, and ownership of outcomes rather than scripted responses.

Students leave with a refined personal defense strategy and the ability to adapt, decide, and act decisively in complex, unpredictable environments.

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Defensive Pillars:

• All of tiers 1-4

• Complex defensive scenarios

• Stress Inoculation 

• Dynamic Threat Resolution

• Performance Standards 

• Multiple Force-On-Force Scenarios

• Improvised Weapons 

• Decision Superiority

• Personalized Defense Doctrine

• Integrated decision making under stress

• Advanced movement and positional dominance

• Scenario driven problem solving

• Force management and accountability

• Personal defense strategy development

• Force-on-force

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