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Ryan Baker is a retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant. He served 20 years in the infantry, with multiple deployments to include several tours to OIF and OEF, where he served […]

Robert Doak first attended Gunsite in 2000 in a Precision Rifle Class and took numerous Gunsite classes in the following year. In 2022, heretired as a Lieutenant after 26 years […]

Adam Collins has been a police officer in central Texas since 2012. He’s been stationed in the city’s busy downtown entertainment and business district since 2016, both in patrol capacity […]

Tessa Wyrick has been studying and shooting long range precision rifle and extreme long range rifle for 9 years.  She competes in the 1000yds 50BMG, where at the 2018 World […]

John retired from Tennessee law enforcement as a lieutenant after 29 years of service. He served as a patrol officer and supervisor, field training officer, tactical team member and commander, […]

Matthew Avenatti is a law enforcement officer in northern New Jersey. He served 26 years with the New Jersey State Police and retired as a Lieutenant/ Station Commander. Matt served […]

Freddie Blish is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Marine Corps, where he served 24 years. He has served multiple combat tours and deployed globally in operational, instructional […]

Aimee Grant is a former Marine Corps military police Officer and Marksman. She dedicated 15 years serving as a Law Enforcement Officer in Southern California. She worked various assignments during […]

Steve Temerlin MD has been practicing Emergency Medicine for over 40 years. He worked in the civilian community for 10 years before joining the US Navy. During his 22 year […]

Jeff is a retired Sergeant for a middle Tennessee law enforcement agency with over 26 years of experience. During his career, Jeff served in numerous units, including the Crime Suppression […]

Paul Garcia served 32 years in California law enforcement, retiring at the rank of Sergeant.  He worked numerous specialty assignments including Departmental Range Master, SWAT Team Leader, Auto Theft Task […]

Gary’s love for shooting brought him to Gunsite and a love for teaching kept him here. His introduction to shooting came from his dad at the age of 3 and […]

Vince Morgan retired from the Columbia (TN) Police Department after 28 1/2 years of service.  Vince served in Patrol, Crime Suppression Unit, Narcotics, S.W.A.T., Firearms Unit and retired as Patrol […]

Clint Achziger is currently a Police Officer for an agency in Orange County(CA) and holds the position of the Firearm’s and Tactics Training Coordinator. Clint has 24 years of experience […]

The Director of Training for Gunsite Academy, Dave Hartman is a former U.S. Marine and a 27-year veteran of the Orange County California Sheriff’s Department.  He retired as a Patrol […]

Guy Coursey is a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel.  He served over 23 years as a Combat Engineer officer, including overseas tours to OIF and OEF as an Embedded Training […]

Pete is a Captain with a suburban Philadelphia police department with over 25 years experience in law enforcement.  He is currently second in command of the police department with responsibility […]

Chris Currie is a retired Gunnery Sergeant with 21 years in the United States Marine Corps, 17 years within the Reconnaissance community, 13 of those years with 1st Force Reconnaissance […]

Ken Koch is a retired Chief of Police with 30 years of service in Northern Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Highlights of his law enforcement career include more than 20 […]

Daniel J. Bilodeau served in the US Air Force and then accepted a position as a Federal Agent with the US Dept of Energy.  During his career with the US […]

Walter Wilkinson served 30 years with the US Army, 26 of those with Special Operation Forces, retiring as a Sergeant Major. As a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant he trained foreign […]

Jay Tuttle is a former Marine who served 18 years in Central Indiana law enforcement in various special assignments. Those assignments included Firearms Instructor, Defensive Tactics Instructor and Armorer. He […]

  Il Ling New grew up hunting and fishing, and started guiding for her father’s outfitting service as a teenager. She received her first guide’s license at age 17. Later, she became […]

Mario Marchman retired as a sergeant with the Glendale, CA., Police Department with over thirty years of service. His duties included Patrol, Narcotics Investigator, and Supervisor of various details such […]

John Hutchison retired from the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office as a Sergeant.  He served as a Patrol Supervisor and S.W.A.T. Team Leader. John was an AZPOST Defensive Tactics and Firearms […]

Dave Harris has been an active duty California law enforcement officer since 1980. He has worked numerous specialty assignments including Firearms and Tactics Instructor, Academy Instructor, Gang Unit, Special Weapons […]

John Hall is a Range Master for Gunsite and instructs Pistol, Carbine, Shotgun, and numerous specialty courses.  He has eight years of service as an infantryman with the U.S. Army […]

Scott Burgess is a retired Army Mustang who spent 27 years in both Infantry and Aviation branches. His work with both US and foreign armies in tactical training supported NATO […]