This intensive and challenging twenty-one-day training course (189 hours) is designed to prepare students to serve as Designated Defensive Marksmen (DDM) in support of protective operations, critical infrastructure security, special events, and other high-threat environments requiring precision long-range engagement capabilities.

The course develops the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to effectively employ precision rifle systems while integrating with security teams to identify, assess, and mitigate potential threats. Students learn to rapidly and accurately engage targets from at extended distances with a high first-round hit probability from both conventional and unconventional firing positions.

Training focuses on three critical functional areas: precision shooting, observation and target detection, and tactical employment. Students develop advanced marksmanship skills, including known and unknown distance engagements, moving target engagements, rapid follow-up shot techniques, and positional shooting. The program also provides comprehensive instruction in target detection, range estimation, ballistics, environmental effects on projectile performance, and methods for compensating for changing conditions.