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The experienced choice to keep you safe

Alain Burrese is a former Army Sniper, a fifth degree black belt, and a certified Active Shooter Response instructor.

He is the author of 9 books and 11 instructional DVDs and teaches a common sense approach to staying safe and defending yourself through his Survive a Shooting and Survive and Defend programs and websites.

He’s combined his experience, education, and training to design programs to teach you how to stay safe and survive.

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He served in the U.S. Army with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, and with the 2nd Infantry Division as a sniper and sniper instructor in South Korea.
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Alain has more than 35 years of martial arts experience in a variety of styles. His primary art is the Korean Art of Hapkido in which he holds a 5th degree black belt.
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Alain’s passion has always been to focus on teaching practical street application of skills to help people increase their survivability in dangerous situations.
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alain's background

  • Certified Active Shooter Instructor (Safariland Group)
  • More than 5,000 people trained
  • Appeared in the PBS Documentary, Active Shooter: Are Montana Colleges Ready?
  • Creator of the Survive A Shooting course and website
  • 5th Degree Black Belt Instructor
  • Former U.S. Army Sniper and Sniper Instructor
  • Former U.S. Army Paratrooper – 82nd Airborne Division
  • Attorney, State Bar of Montana
  • Author and producer of numerous books and DVDs on self-defense, including Survive A Shooting: Life-saving Tactics and Strategies to Survive Active Shooters and Other Terrorist Attacks
  • Contributor to Black Belt Magazine, American Survival Guide, and many other publications
  • Speaker and expert commentator appearing regularly on radio talk shows on topics of security, safety and active shooter response

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Alain is an experienced speaker, trainer, mediator and communicator who is passionate, approachable and effective at reaching audiences on the topics he cares most about – safety, security, self-defense and active shooter, and active threat response.

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