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Whether you have been camping your whole life, or just getting started in the outdoors, we've got the classes you need to stay safe in the great outdoors. We've also got the classes to take your enjoyment of nature to a much deeper level. Our one day classes are subject specific, and delve deep into the skills common to our forebears like wild foods, making fire, navigation, tracking and primitive cooking. Consider our full two day Wilderness Survival class to give you the best modern skills to come back from the woods safely. Immerse yourself in a three day or five day class and gain the knowledge to feel like you are at home in the wild. Our class descriptions are all detailed below.
One-Day Courses
Seasonal Wild Edible Plants - classes each season - Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is an entry level class for people who want to enter the delicious world of foraging their own wild food from the landscape, just like our ancestors. We have been offering this class each season of the year since we began teaching in 1997.
Our Seasonal Wild Edible Plant courses focus on the different plants and plant uses of each season. These are one day classes. Each course is a guided walk through different habitats, identifying, collecting and frequent sampling wild plant foods, and pointing out harmful plants to avoid. Each course will cover approximately 40 plants, shrubs and trees, depending on the season. We will cover proper identification and use of these plants, whether plants are native or introduced, when and where to safely collect plants and conservation techniques. Each student gets a copy of our Earth Connection plant book with full color photos and written plant information, created specifically for this class. Wild edible snacks are a part of each course.
Advanced Wild Edible Plants - classes each season - Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall - New For 2012
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
Bring the wild to your plate!
This NEW intermediate level class builds upon our 15 consecutive years of experience teaching wild edible plants to the public, and bringing delicious wild foods home for so many people. This class is designed for students who are well past "beginners", and already have solid plant identification skills with wild edible plants.
The Advanced Wild Edible Plant classes of each season will show you how to use and enjoy the wild foods of that season. The class will focus on collecting, storing and using common and tasty wild plant foods, while avoiding look-a-likes and avoiding mistakes. This hands-on learning experience will show you the best ways to dry and store tea plants; how to make dried wild fruits and veggies; quick pickling techniques and the best plants to pickle; the best and worst wild plants to freeze; how to make jams and jellies; how to cook with wild plant foods; Tim's favorite wild recipes; and wild plant conservation techniques. Each student gets a copy of our Earth Connection Advanced Wild Edible Plant book for that season with full color photos and written plant information, created specifically for this class. Wild edible snacks and plant cooking are also part of each of these courses throughout the year.
Friction Fire Making
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is an energetic entry level class for people who have always wanted to make fire by rubbing two sticks together. We have been offering this class since we began teaching in 1997.
This course will focus on the Bow Drill and Hand Drill methods of friction fire making and how to easily start a fire. Fire safety, tinder, fire wood selection, and setting up a primitive fireplace will be covered in addition to some of the history and physics of friction fire making. Proper construction and use of the fire making equipment will be emphasized during the course. Students will construct fire making sets which will be theirs to keep from a variety of materials provided by us. Our one day Friction Fire Making course teaches the Hand Drill friction fire making method because it is the easiest fire kit to make, and this method had the widest use through prehistory and world cultures. The Bow Drill is also taught in this course because it is the easiest method for beginners to make friction fire.
Friction Fire Materials Identification
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is a class for people who already have some friction fire experience and want to learn the art of harvesting their own friction fire materials. We have been offering Friction Fire Materials ID since 2003.
This course will focus on the skills that we consider the most important in the art of friction fire. These skills are plant and tree identification and proper material selection. We will study plant and tree families to learn general characteristics and then focus on the unique attributes of individual species. For example... did you ever try to use Hemlock pine for drills and fire boards? Did you use the trunk wood from a tree, or the branch wood? There is a surprising difference between the different parts of the same tree. That's the kind of advice we will be packing into this one day long class. Students will go through field and forest, identifying, harvesting and then using suitable woods and plant materials to construct fire making sets during the class. Beginning Fire Makers are welcome too. We will be demonstrating the assembly and proper use of fire kit materials and then using the kits during the course.
Stone Tool Friction Fire
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is a more advanced class for people who already have some friction fire experience under their belts. We have been offering this class since 2010.
This fun and challenging course will focus on the Bow Drill, Hand Drill and Fire Plow methods of friction fire making and use ONLY traditional stone tools and materials. This class brings a whole new level to the already tricky task of making Friction Fire. We will dig into our ancestor's tool box for the construction of the fire making equipment and supplies. Students will construct stone tools during the class, and use them to build fire making sets, all of which will be theirs to keep. Join us to learn how to primitively split out planks for fire boards, learn to make bow drill cord from bark and fibers, knap out some stone saw blades, and use these things to make fire. This is the highest level of fire making art, presented as only Earth Connection can.
Survival Challenge
24 hours - 9 am to 9 am Course tuition $179
Our Survival Challenge course is an intermediate level class which will prove how good your skills really are. This course is an Earth Connection exclusive! We have offered this class since 2010.
The Survival Challenge class will put your skills, your body and your tenacity to the test. Over a 24 hour period, we will push you to your physical and mental limits. Through a series of challenges, you will accomplish the tasks of survival and be provided with the opportunity for a "Gut Check" to see what really makes you tick. If you are not sure what makes you tick - you will know after we get through with you. Just some of the tasks and challenges are as follows:
Shelter building
Fire starting under "extreme conditions"
Survival fishing, gutting and cooking your catch at our North
Carolina location
Traps and small game processing at our Virginia location
Physical fitness
Wilderness Medicine and first aid scenarios
No prior experience or significant skills level is required, but it certainly would help. This will be a hands-on learning opportunity. Bring one 5x8 plastic tarp, one wool or synthetic fiber blanket, one 1 quart water bottle, and one knife - bring no food - no other survival gear. Bring suitable clothes and only the four items listed above.
The Primitive Challenge Option
For those who want to push even further - you can attend any Survival Challenge date with just a knife and the clothes on your back. This option was formerly known as the "Primitive Challenge". Just let us know ahead of time, if you are taking the primitive option for this course. Prior experience is required for the primitive option. Bring suitable clothes and only a knife. No food - no water - no gear - just your clothes and a knife. Are you ready??
Primitive Survival Crash Course
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is an entry level class for people who have always wanted to be able to survive in the woods with ONLY THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACK! You can use this class to build a great foundation to ensure your survival, no matter what.
This class covers crucial skills to ensure your safety and well-being in any survival situation - and provides you with primitive survival skills as your ultimate back-up plan for survival. Subjects of this class include the Priorities and Mentality of Survival; Leaf hut shelter construction; Friction fire with the Bow and Drill; How to get safe water with primitive methods; and an introduction to primitive tool making. This is the core curriculum of the first day of our very popular 3-day Primitive Skills class, and it is now available by itself as the Primitive Survival Crash Course.
And the best part is that you can do all this in just one day.
Modern Survival Crash Course
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is an entry level class for those who want a solid foundation in modern survival. Survival skills are much easier to do with modern tools and equipment. We'll show you what to take into the woods and how to use it.
In this course, we will coach you through the best modern wilderness skills for any survival situation. Topics of instruction include: The Priorities of survival; What to put in a survival kit; Fire making strategies with numerous devices; Modern water purification; Signaling for help; and Building shelters from tarps and other modern materials.
This is the core curriculum of the first day of our very popular 2-day Wilderness Survival class, and it is now available by itself as the Modern Survival Crash Course.
And like its sister course, the Primitive Survival Crash Course, you can build your foundation for survival in just one day.
Tracks and Sign
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is a fun entry level to intermediate class for those who want to see the signs of the animal world as if you were a native, not just a passing tourist. Hue developed this class specifically for our use, and we have been offering this class since 2004.
Our Tracks and Sign class is the special project of instructor "Hue" Hueston. Learn the beginning "steps" for the ancient art tracking. Clear foot print identification; animal scat and sign identification; and animal behavior will be taught just for starters. This is a great class for anyone interested in seeing the great outdoors through the eyes of a tracker.
Primitive Trapping
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is a very serious class for one sole purpose, bringing home animal food. We have been offering this class since 2004.
Earth Connection's Primitive Trapping class will teach you how to put your hard earned tracking skills to task by constructing simple traps to secure wild animals for food. Trapping is probably the most efficient way to gather food in a survival situation as they conserve your energy and hunt for you while you rest or work on other survival tasks. Students will learn the basic principles behind traps and how to construct them focusing on the more familiar (and using less cordage) deadfalls and snares including the figure-four, Paiute deadfall, wire snare, and their variations. In addition, more complicated trapping methods using kinetic engines (and much more cordage) will be demonstrated including many variations of the toggle stick and spring pole traps. We will cover sign tracking as it applies to trap location, baiting and trap camouflage. We will also look into simple fish traps to add more variety to your primitive diet.
This class harms NO animals and all local trapping laws are adhered to.
Just Added To The Class Curriculum- This class now includes hands-on instruction in the skinning and butchering of small game (typically squirrel).
Land Navigation
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
Finding your way is a MUST HAVE SKILL for all outdoors people. You'll never be lost again with navigation expert Rick "Hue" Hueston at the helm. Hue developed this class for specifically for our use, and we have been offering this class since 2004.
Hue spent a lot of his venerable 20 year military career learning, using and then teaching land navigation. Now you can learn the skills of map and compass orienteering. Navigating cross-country from point A to point B takes more than walking the distance and in the primitive is sometime more art than science. This class provides the basic skills required to navigate cross-country day and night using modern (sorry no GPS) and primitive techniques of direction finding, and how to use these skills in the field for day hikes or long-range outings. The class includes basic navigation principles (maps, compasses, declination, the forms of navigation, and route planning, day and night land navigation techniques), as well as advanced instruction in the skills of intersection and resection (triangulation), hand-drawn maps and using terrain features like "road signs." We will provide a compass for the class, but you can bring your own provided it is a well-crafted one. We recommend basic compasses from Silva/Brunton and Suunto.
Wild Brew 101
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
Is brewing a survival skill??? It is now! If you love adult beverages and want to learn to make the most unique brews on the planet, then let us teach you how to brew - and use wild ingredients that no one else has. Pour everyone a glass of your finest, and make your next cookout or dinner party unforgettable. We have been offering this class since 2008.
This class is a great introduction into the art of Home Brewing wine, mead and beer, with Earth Connection's own twist - wild edible plants for flavor! Students will learn the basics of fermentation for alcoholic beverages and home made soda. Materials will be provided by us, and supplemented by materials that we show you how to gather during the course. Each student will go home with several unique brews in process which we will have made during class that day. 21 and older only! ID's will be checked on arrival.
Basketry
9 am to 4 pm Course tuition $97
This is an entry level class for those who want to learn the beautiful and useful art of basketry. We have offered this class since 1999.
Our Basketry course covers several styles of traditional basketry from around the world. The course includes information on basket material selection, harvesting techniques and seasons, how to make wicker basketry from vines, how to make coil basketry from grasses and twigs, and how to make bark baskets from sheets of bark. Materials will be provided by us, and supplemented by materials that we show how to gather from the rich natural surroundings right here on our property. Each student will go home with different styles of natural baskets that they have made.
Emergency Fire Skills
Wes makes fire look easy at ECNC's Emergency Fire Skills Half Day
1pm - 4 pm
This is an entry level class for people who want to learn how to make a fire, ON DEMAND. We have offered this class since 2008.
A well constructed fire can dry your clothes; increase your core temperature, cook your food, purify your water, and light your way. This course will cover skills including fire safety, proper fire materials, fire lay construction, and many methods of starting and maintaining fires, with modern and primitive techniques. This class will run from 1 pm - 4 pm at Earth Connection North Carolina near Raleigh.
Primitive Cooking
9 am to 6 pm Course tuition $97
This class in truly a feast in the making. Regardless of the years of camping you have done, or if you are just getting started, this class will give you the skills to be a stone age chef! We have proudly offered this class since 1998.
Join us for our very ab-original cooking class; often imitated, but never duplicated! Our Primitive Cooking course will teach the food preparation skills of our ancestors as we use traditional cooking skills to create a feast for the mind and belly. Cooking techniques will be taught and during the course students will construct and use a stone fireplace with reflector, a stone oven and a steam pit. Other cooking methods to be covered are rock frying, coal baking, rock boiling in wooden bowls and a deer hide, clay baking and an Algonquin style green wood grill "Barbecue". Eating utensils, cooking containers and other subjects will be covered. A lunch, snacks and a dinner will also be part of this course. The menu for this course uses some modern ingredients and some traditional ones; and will include many kinds of meat prepared in different ways.
Two Day and Three Day Courses
Wilderness Survival
9 am on the first day until 4 pm on the second day Course tuition $247
This is a fun entry level to intermediate class for those who want to learn the wilderness skills to stay safe in the wild, and don't mind using the modern technology to do it. We have been offering this class since we began teaching in 1997.
Our Wilderness Survival course is a 2 day course designed to instruct students in a wide variety of year-round life saving wilderness survival skills using the latest modern gear and the best historic outdoor skills. Students of this course will learn the priorities of survival, how not to get lost in the first place, how to signal for rescue, and what to put in survival kits. Skills will include building and camping out in one of the many tarp shelters to be covered; collecting and purifying water with several modern methods; and the basics of making and utilizing fire including flint & steel, batteries, magnifying lens, waterproofing matches and tinder. Food gathering instruction will include collecting and preparing nutritious edible plants, four different traps unique to this course and survival fishing. How to sharpen a knife with a stone, knots and string making will also be covered. We recommend this course for all outdoor persons.
Advanced Friction Fire
9 am on the first day until 4 pm on the second day Course tuition $247
Become a friction fire pro with the skills gained in our Advanced Friction Fire class. We have been offering this class since 1999.
The two day long Advanced Friction Fire course has been designed to further enhance a student's friction fire making techniques and understanding of advanced variations of construction and technique. Fire making methods include the Bow Drill, the Hand Drill, and other friction fire making methods such as the Pump Drill, the Fire Saw, the Fire Plow, and the Arctic Mouth Drill. Advanced subjects will include plant and tree identification and use; the use of wet and difficult materials; Bow Drill cordage construction; the use of stone age tools more. Students will also have the opportunity to make and use a Pump Drill, Fire Saw, Fire Plow and an Arctic Mouth Drill. This course is also designed to show many of the primitive uses of fire and explain the importance of fire in many different cultures and time periods. Fire lore, legends and stories from all over the world will also be an important part of this course. We recommend that students have completed our one day Fire Making course and be proficient in the skills presented there, or have comparable skills, to be eligible for this advanced class.
Hide Tanning
9 am on the first day until 4 pm on the second day Course tuition $379
Hunters, trappers, folks with a taste for heritage - please listen up. This strenuous yet satisfying class is perfect for outdoors people at any level who want to learn the skills to make their own buckskin leather. We have been offering this class since 1999.
In our Hide Tanning course, we teach the ancient skill of tanning animal skins with animal brains under both modern and primitive conditions. The tanning method used in our courses is the dry scrape brain tan method. Hides tanned in this natural way are beautiful looking; and pleasant to smell, touch and wear. This course will cover all of the tanning steps that transform a fresh, raw deer skin into finished brain tanned leather. These steps include fleshing, drying, scraping, braining, stretching, and smoking. Students will have the opportunity to work a hide through all of the tanning stages and go home with the hide that they have tanned. All tools, materials and a hide will be provided by us. You may notice that this class costs more than our other 2 day classes. This is due to the greater material and labor expense that we put into this class. Please understand that you are going home with 2 hides, tools and a new skill. Thank you.
Our weekend class of December 3-4, 2011 has a rain date of Dec. 5-6; our class scheduled for Dec 5-6 has a rain date of Dec 8-9. If the weather causes a course to move to another date and a student cannot make it to the rain date, they may transfer their tuition to another course or receive a refund.
Primitive Tool making
9 am on the first day until 4 pm on the second day Course tuition $247
This class is the foundation for outdoors people at any level to learn the art of tool making. We have been offering this class since 1999.
In our Primitive Tool Making course, students will learn to make a wide variety of tools of stone, wood, bone and antler. This course will cover the percussion flaking and pressure flaking foundations of flint knapping (stone tool production) and some of the stone tools that will be produced are knives, scrapers, pecked hammers and projectile points. Wood working skills will be covered in order to produce digging sticks, a variety of vices, mallets and wedges. Fresh deer legs will be worked with stone blades to yield sinew, hide glue materials, bone projectile points, fish hooks and punches. Antler will also be used to make composite pressure flakers, chisels and more. Cordage; making and using hide glue and pitch glue; and using fire as a tool will also be covered. All materials will be provided by us. Each student will have the opportunity to make their own primitive tool kit which they can keep and even use during future courses.
Primitive Skills
9 am on the first day until 4 pm on the third day Course tuition $379
The first class we ever ran in 1997 was a 3 day Primitive Skills class. It is nearest and dearest to our hearts and the class is a perfect fit for anyone who wants to have the skills to dwell in the wild as a native, whether by accident or by choice.
The Primitive Skills course teaches valuable wilderness survival skills using the stone age technologies that were common to of all of our ancestors. Students will learn how to build a leaf hut shelter, without tools or cord; how to collect and prepare tinder and kindling; how to do friction fire making with the bow drill; primitive tool making; primitive water gathering and purification; four primitive traps unique to this course; how to make a rabbit hunting stick; and the skinning, cleaning and cooking small game (typically squirrel). Primitive fishing, Edible plants, primitive cooking, food preservation and storage, wicker basketry from vines, plant and tree bark string, and burning out wooden bowls and spoons will also be covered. This course is designed to provide skills for living primitively in the wilderness; and this course is a student and staff favorite.
Five Day Courses
Ultimate Survival Week
9 am on Monday until 4 pm Friday Course tuition $629
This very popular class is a combination of our 3 day Primitive Skills course and our Wilderness Survival 2 day course. For those who cannot make it to the whole week, there is the option to take just the Primitive Skills portion or Wilderness Survival portion of the week. But we highly recommend that you take the whole week to get the full spectrum of modern and primitive survival skills. In the Primitive Skills portion, Students will learn how to build a leaf hut shelter, without tools or cord; how to collect and prepare tinder and kindling; how to do friction fire making with the bow drill; primitive tool making; primitive water gathering and purification; four primitive traps unique to this course; how to make a rabbit hunting stick; and the skinning, cleaning and cooking small game (typically squirrel). Primitive fishing, Edible plants, primitive cooking, food preservation and storage, wicker basketry from vines, plant and tree bark string, and burning out wooden bowls and spoons will also be covered. This course is designed to provide skills for living primitively in the wilderness; and this course is a student and staff favorite. The Wilderness Survival section is designed to instruct students in a wide variety of year-round life saving wilderness survival skills using the latest modern gear and the best historic outdoor skills. Students of this course will learn the priorities of survival, how not to get lost in the first place, how to signal for rescue, and what to put in survival kits. Skills will include building and camping out in one of the many tarp shelters to be covered; collecting and purifying water with several modern methods; and the basics of making and utilizing fire including flint & steel, batteries, magnifying lens, waterproofing matches and tinder. Food gathering instruction will include collecting and preparing nutritious edible plants, four different traps unique to this course and survival fishing. How to sharpen a knife with a stone, knots and string making will also be covered.
Fire Week
9 am on Monday until 4 pm Friday Course tuition $629
This weeklong journey into Friction Fire Making is a combination of our one day Friction Fire Making class, our Friction Fire Materials ID class, Advanced Friction Fire class, and with the final day devoted to Stone Tool Friction Fire class. Fire making methods include the Bow Drill, the Hand Drill, and other friction fire making methods such as the Pump Drill, the Fire Saw, the Fire Plow, and the Arctic Mouth Drill. Advanced subjects will include plant and tree identification and use; the use of wet and difficult materials; Bow Drill cordage construction; the use of stone age tools more. Students will also have the opportunity to make and use a Pump Drill, Fire Saw, Fire Plow and an Arctic Mouth Drill. This course is also designed to show many of the primitive uses of fire and explain the importance of fire in many different cultures and time periods. Fire lore, legends and stories from all over the world will also be an important part of this course. The week will culminate in a whole day spent on the art and skills of true stone age fire making - just rocks, sticks and homemade string to make fire - the real deal!
Ancestral Skills Week
9 am on Monday until 4 pm Friday Course tuition $629
This week of skills includes our 2 day Hide Tanning course, our 2 day Primitive Tool making course and our one day Basketry course. During the week, we teach the ancient skill of tanning animal skins with animal brains under both modern and primitive conditions. The tanning method used in our courses is the dry scrape brain tan method. Hides tanned in this natural way are beautiful looking; and pleasant to smell, touch and wear. This course will cover all of the tanning steps that transform a fresh, raw deer skin into finished brain tanned leather. These steps include fleshing, drying, scraping, braining, stretching, and smoking. Uses for the hides, brain extraction with stone tools and storing un-tanned skins and brains will also be demonstrated. Students will have the opportunity to work a hide through all of the tanning stages and go home with the hide that they have tanned. All tools, materials and a hide will be provided by us. In our Primitive Tool Making section, students will learn to make a wide variety of tools of stone, wood, bone and antler. This course will cover the percussion flaking and pressure flaking foundations of flint knapping (stone tool production) and some of the stone tools that will be produced are knives, scrapers, pecked hammers and projectile points. Wood working skills will be covered in order to produce digging sticks, a variety of vices, mallets and wedges. Fresh deer legs will be worked with stone blades to yield sinew, hide glue materials, bone projectile points, fish hooks and punches. Antler will also be used to make composite pressure flakers, chisels and more. Cordage; making and using hide glue and pitch glue; and using fire as a tool will also be covered. All materials will be provided by us. Each student will have the opportunity to make their own primitive tool kit which they can keep and even use during future courses. The Basketry section will cover several styles of traditional basketry from around the world. The course includes information on basket material selection, harvesting techniques and seasons, how to make wicker basketry from vines, how to make coil basketry from grasses and twigs, and how to make bark baskets from sheets of bark. Materials will be provided by us, and supplemented by materials that we show how to gather during the course. Each student will go home with several primitive baskets of different styles, that they have made.
Primitive Skills Week
9 am on Monday until 4 pm Friday Course tuition $629
The Primitive Skills Week is a combination of our 3 day Primitive Skills course, our one day Friction Fire Making course and one day of Wild Edible Plants specific to that season. For those who cannot make it to the whole week, there is the option to take just the Primitive Skills portion or the Fire Making portion, or the Wild Edible Plants portion of the week. The Primitive Skills section teaches valuable wilderness survival skills using the stone age technologies that were common to of all of our ancestors. Students will learn how to build a leaf hut shelter, without tools or cord; how to collect and prepare tinder and kindling; how to do friction fire making with the bow drill; primitive tool making; primitive water gathering and purification; four primitive traps unique to this course; how to make a rabbit hunting stick; and the skinning, cleaning and cooking small game (typically squirrel). Primitive fishing, Edible plants, primitive cooking, food preservation and storage, wicker basketry from vines, plant and tree bark string, and burning out wooden bowls and spoons will also be covered. This course is designed to provide skills for living primitively in the wilderness; and this course is a student and staff favorite. The one day Friction Fire section will focus on the Bow Drill and Hand Drill methods of friction fire making and how to easily start a fire. Fire safety, tinder, fire wood selection, and setting up a primitive fireplace will be covered in addition to some of the history and physics of friction fire making. Proper construction and use of the fire making equipment will be emphasized during the course. Students will construct fire making sets which will be theirs to keep from a variety of materials provided by us. Our one day Friction Fire Making course teaches the Hand Drill friction fire making method because it is the easiest fire kit to make, and this method had the widest use through prehistory and world cultures. The Bow Drill is also taught in this course because it is the easiest method for beginners to make friction fire. The Seasonal Edible Plant section will focus on the different plants and plant uses of each season. These are one day classes. Each course is a guided walk through different habitats, identifying, collecting and frequent sampling wild plant foods, and pointing out harmful plants to avoid. Each course will cover approximately 40 plants, shrubs and trees, depending on the season. We will cover proper identification and use of these plants, whether plants are native or introduced, when and where to safely collect plants and conservation techniques. Each student gets an Earth Connection plant handout with full color photos and written plant information.
Earth Connection's
GUARDIAN PROGRAM
Starting January 1, 2011 - Earth Connection's Virginia and North Carolina locations are pleased to announce a discount program for those who have put their lives on the line guarding their fellow Americans. The GUARDIAN PROGRAM is a tuition discount available to US Military active duty and veterans - Current or retired Fire Fighters - Current or retired Rescue Squad - Current or retired Law Enforcement. A discount of 15% will be available to all who qualify as a token of our thanks for their service and sacrifices.
We are also offering a free, one day class to anyone who has been disabled in the line of duty. To take advantage of this program, simply fill out an online registration form for the class or classes of your choice and make a note on the form that you are requesting the Guardian Program. Then mail in your class tuition in the form of a personal check or money order so that we receive it at least 7 days before the first day of class. We do not currently have a discount button on our Paypal payment page, so please just use old fashioned checks and please bear with us. Please mail your tuition and a paper copy of your registration form to the appropriate VA or NC address.
Please check our Registration page, as a few restrictions apply.
Thank you for your service to us all!
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