TN RTO Course Review

This review comes by way of one of the students who traveled a LONG way to endure a cold, rainy and snowy RTO & Advanced RTO Course in the mountains of east Tennessee. We train in less than ideal conditions to push ourselves outside our comfort zone. If it was easy, everyone would do it. I’ve got a course coming up in Colorado in mid-March, one in Washington in May, and all three communications courses I teach in Wyoming in June. -NCS
Honestly, I barely even know where to begin… I was totally blown away by my experience in the RTO courses. I’ve never had any training course that was the totally perfect training experience, but really, this was it!
In every regard, the RTO courses knocked it out of the park: superb instruction, invaluably vital content (both the academic and practical portions), and great camaraderie and respect. There were no know-it-all’s or idiots; just honest, America-loving men of all stripes getting into gear to preserve our God-given rights.
Training is truly religion to me – any training I get into, I approach in a deadly serious, all-or-nothing fashion. Just like you said: FITT, or don’t bother. I intend to hit the ground running immediately and start building.
With training as religion, getting to and attending the RTO course was like a mini-pilgrimage for me. Despite the 11-hour car ride each way, having to take time off work, and being cut off from my family and my wife’s home cooking, the rewards were huge, and really beyond worth it!
Also, thanks to your patience and your laser-focused, conversation-at-the-kitchen-table style of instruction, together with your accessibility during the course and your strict approach to quality of instruction, I now know exactly how I’ll get started in this brand new, yet crucial area of technical skill!
I intend to hold my first workshop locally in the next few weeks, so that I can start transmitting this info to worthy folks for what’s coming down the line. I will now be the teacher, and I will dedicate myself to try to copy the example and high bar you just set for me.
On top of all that, I really enjoyed getting to know you on a personal level. After course hours, you were very accessible on a social level, and you seem just as comfortable in “bro” mode with your participants as you are in the role of the serious instructor.
So again, the course had it all: critical, practical, and actionable skills together with meeting people with whom I hope to be friends for life; I’ve already reached out to a bunch of RTO course participants. I’m sure I’ll remember this experience forever – best believe that! I will also make every effort to attend your future offerings.
I just want to take a moment to say again real quick that I gladly place my administrative and organizational abilities at your disposal. Please let me help you – I really believe in what you’re doing, and now that I know you personally, I’d like to help in whatever way I can.
Finally, I’ll get the class notes to you within the coming days. I have to plug back into my grind here, but I hope to have the final, edited notes that include all written, photo, and typed elements in the next 10 days or less. Part of that depends of how much snow falls in the next few days, since I am the one who does the snow removal on my rental properties… reality and all, eh? Also, if it’s ok, I’ll send my flash drive over to your PO Box this week to get the downloads we talked about, if that still works for you?
In any case, please accept my most heartfelt gratitude for making possible what has truly been one of my very best training experiences ever. I will honor your passion, beliefs, and your own deep commitment to training by dedicating myself to the RTO needs of my little corner of America here. Hope to talk to you again soon!

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By Published On: February 15, 2021Categories: AP Staff, Comms, Training11 Comments on TN RTO Course Review

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About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

11 Comments

  1. Jose February 15, 2021 at 07:51

    Yep, my rto course was great too.

  2. SOG February 15, 2021 at 08:09

    http://radio.garden/search
    anyone seen this? can listen in on any station that appears as a green dot worldwide

    • NC Scout February 15, 2021 at 08:20

      These are broadcast stations which have a simultaneous internet stream.
      Nothing to do with my course.

  3. Mike February 15, 2021 at 08:38

    4.5

  4. Geronimo Jones February 15, 2021 at 09:54

    As another attendant from a distant state to the TN RTO courses, I can testify to everything the reviewer said is 100% correct. NC Scout’s instruction is top notch. He is extremely knowledgeable and is not simply reading a script. His experience, knowledge and world class instruction was invaluable and truly a blessing to me and my family/friends. The opportunity to learn this vital information, like the inexpensive ammo we all took for granted, may not be around forever so you better get it while you can, folks. The RTO courses were the best bang for my buck training I have ever had, without a doubt. I cannot wait to take some of NC Scout’s other courses and if you are hesitating to take his courses, you are a damn fool. Take the time off work, get in your vehicle and go to his classes. Don’t wait for him to come to you. YOU have to get off your tail and make the effort to get this training in. It is totally worth it. If available, camp out to save some coin if you are short on funds.
    Another thing that was astonishing to me was the camaraderie and diversity of the folks attending. There were many good people from extremely diverse walks of life and geographic regions. It wasn’t just a group of rednecks; it was a concerned group of people with various educations, backgrounds, and careers. No idiots, just concerned folks who only want to be left alone to live their lives and to raise their families in peace. Our commonality? We all see the proverbial writing on the wall and our interpretations are very much akin to that of Daniel’s.
    God Bless you, NC Scout.

  5. kelly February 15, 2021 at 15:04

    Some know me as ‘tall boy’ :-) A tip of my hat to all of you and hope to train with you again. The community established during our training was the most valuable aspect for me, driving home that whatever technical proficiency we may have is of limited use without being applied to the greater good of us Americans (and beyond!) dedicated to maintaining (and, one day, clawing back!) our Freedom. Properly applied, the commo skills we learned can maintain our cohesion and effectiveness as much as our camaraderie does during class. A bunch of technically skilled individuals, isolated in their ham shacks, will not cut it (a primary lesson for me).
    I know NCScout’s training will stay with us better than if we had simply read the same material in a book (even if you are a book learner), because of the varied presentations of the same information (orally, whiteboard, hands-on demo, then doing task ourselves as a team) and because NCScout is a charismatic speaker.
    Let’s take the unity we established in training out to our greater communities. Our enemies wish to weaken and isolate all Americans by calling attention to our differences at every turn, whether those seeming variations are racial, religious, class, political affiliation, economic status, cultural or otherwise. Our enemies want a nation of isolated individuals in thrall to the government-corporate monolith. A nation fighting itself. Some say there’s a totalitarian at the heart of every liberal. I say there’s a freedom-loving American, provided they might see the the historically inevitable subjugation and misery resulting from a surrender of free will to government. It’s a siren song inevitably dashing us against the rocks. As Ben Franklin advised the colonies, ‘join (unite), or die’. NCScout’s training and the community he fosters can be the start of that journey.

  6. Bolt February 16, 2021 at 10:25

    Any plans for a RTO class in UP Michigan or Northern Wisconsin?

    • NC Scout February 16, 2021 at 10:55

      No, but you can host one in the fall. Shoot me an email.

      • Bolt February 18, 2021 at 17:58

        Have been following AP and wonder what it would take to host a RTO course here in northern WI. You’ve convinced me of the importance of Comms…new to all of this and am looking to learn so will be able to have some knowledge for my children and grandkids.

        • NC Scout February 18, 2021 at 18:08

          Thanks for reaching out brother! To host a course, I require a minimum of ten students and a place to spread out for the exercises. The only other thing is a whiteboard. If you want to host one, the earliest we’ll be able to do it is pushing into the fall, likely October.

  7. Anonymous February 18, 2021 at 11:26

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