SOTT-I LLC boasts a unique cadre of special operations and conventional unit/agency personnel who have extensive experience in their fields and the added ability to impart that knowledge to others. The Training Staff is a professional group with a combined 200+ years of law enforcement, military and corrections special operations and LEA patrol experience. This includes an extensive collective background with U.S.Federal-State-Local Law Enforcement, State and Federal Corrections, U.S. Army Special Forces (USSF), Naval Special Warfare (NSW), U.S. Army (USA), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Army Special Mission Units (SMU). This experience includes extensive experience with law enforcement, corrections and military special operations and conventional units/agencies in a variety of locations internationally and gives an international flavor and the ability to provide the customer with a wide range of training and advice that is unsurpassed.
With the emphasis on realistic, hands-on performance oriented training SOTT-I LLC leads the way in providing the best quality instruction and advisory assistance to the military, law enforcement and corrections special operations and LEA patrol professional. In
addition SOTT-I LLC provides the public at large with a wide variety of
specialized training programs to include firearms-marksmanship and
personal security-defense.
In addition all SOTT-I LLC advisors sustain their respective skill sets within the following core training areas and are members of one or more of the professional organizations listed:
CORE TRAINING AREAS
• Tactical Marksmanship/Firearms
• Entry Techniques (CQB)
• Combatives-Weapon Retention-Officer Survival
• Methods of Entry (breaching/barrier penetration)
• Small Unit Tactics/Patrolling
• Special Operation Target Interdiction (Precision Marksman-Sniper Observer)
• Tactical Driving (on-road/off-road)
• Tactical Medicine
• Robotics (tactical applications)
• Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
• Protective Security Operations and Executive Protection
• High Risk Transportation Operations
• Specialized Target Environment Operations (sedan-van/bus/aircraft/rail/maritime)
• Corrections Special Operations
• Law Enforcement and Corrections Less-Lethal Operations
• Canine Specific Operations
• Crisis Negotiation Operations
• Human Performance/Tactical Fitness
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• Certification in Home Land Security from the American College of Forensic Examiners with a minimum rating of Level III
• Active members of the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA)
• Graduates of the FEMA Independent Study Program to
include successful completion of courses of instruction
covering NIMS and the NRP
• International Association of Hostage Negotiators (IAHN)
• International Association of Correctional Training
Personnel (IACTP)
• Midwest Tactical Officers Association (MTOA)
• California Tactical Officers Association (CATO)
• Tennessee Tactical Officers
• Texas Tactical Police Officers Association (TTPOA)
• New York Tactical Officers Association (NYTOA)
• International Association of Bomb Technicians and
Investigators (IABTI)
• International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers
Association (ILEETA)
• Special Forces Association (SFA)
• Special Operations Association (SOA)
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LEAD INSTRUCTOR STAFF
JOHN F. SIEH
DIRECTOR/MASTER TRAINER
ANTONIO L. BOTTA SRASSISTANT DIRECTOR/SENIOR INSTRUCTOR
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR STAFF
AARON ERNST
FIREARMS-LE/MILITARY TACTICS-CITIZEN PROGRAMS
ROBERT ESKEW
FIREARMS-LE/MILITARY TACTICS-CITIZEN PROGRAMS
MATT SMITH
CITIZEN FIREARMS-WHEELCHAIR USER PROGRAMS
MATT FERGUSON
PSD/EP TACTICS-CITIZEN PROGRAMS
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JERRY MELLINGER
FIREARMS-LE/CORRECTIONS/MILITARY TACTICS-SNIPER/OBSERVER
JERROD ALFORD
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS
DR. TOM STRENTZ
CRISIS NEGOTIATION
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RONALD TETREAU
FIREARMS-LE/MILITARY TACTICS-SNIPER OBSERVER
MARK OREILLY
FIREARMS-CORRECTIONS TACTICS-K-9
BUDDY BROWN
TACTICAL MEDICAL
CHARLES PRIMACK
FIREARMS-CORRECTIONS TACTICS-SNIPER OBSERVER
TODD LAVIGNE
FIREARMS-CORRECTIONS TACTICS
MATT LYNCH
FIREARMS-LE/MILITARY TACTICS
DENNIS ANDRE
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS
TOM FLINT
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS
SHANE MELLO
FIREARMS-LE/MILITARY TACTICS
CHRIS HORKAN
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS
TIM BALLINGER
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS
ALAN CUNNINGHAM
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS-SNIPER OBSERVER
MIKE McLAUGHLIN
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS-SNIPER OBSERVER
CARL MACDERMOTT
FIREARMS-LE TACTICS
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RICHARD BISS
FIREARMS-CORRECTIONS/LE TACTICS
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