MSTT Military Discount Plan

Mean Streets Tactical Training is excited to announce our newest offering! Our instructors at MSTT are all ex-military. As such, we understand the operational environment that a soldier on the battlefield faces. We also understand that military budgets and resource limitations can sometimes short change the soldier’s training needs. Therefore we are pleased to announce reduced training rates for Active Duty military, National Guard, and Reservists!

Starting January 2010, all active duty soldier, National Guard, or Reservist will receive a 50% discount on their training if they pay for it themselves! We know that many military operators have to pay for their own training so we are here to support them the only way we know how: to provide excellent training to prepare them for their deployments.

Why would we do this?
MSTT feels it is of paramount importance for our men and women in the military to get good training. We know the military cannot always train soldiers in the environment needed to gain insight, confidence, and competence. The military ranges have so many rules and regulations that training can be unrealistic. Also, many units do not have the funds or ammunition to conduct the live fire exercises that soldiers require. At MSTT, we train soldiers the tactical fundamentals required to operate their weapons with speed and accuracy. We conduct our training in an all day live fire course designed to familiarize the warrior with their weapon and gear. The shooters can evaluate their gear placement, perform drills to reinforce the fundamentals of tactical shooting, and practice tactical movement in scenarios designed to stress them. We also work on treating malfunctions, weapons maintenance, stress fire, and many topics a soldier may never see in their normal training.

What if my Unit would like trained?
If you are a military leader who wants your unit trained, all you need to do is contact one of our staff ASAP! We will provide a custom training proposal and will come out and present our services to your command staff. Our group prices are extremely affordable and in many cases easier to get approval for than going to the military ranges. If you want us to come to your military range for training, our entire course is mobile. We come out with all our own stands, barricades, drills, and range control equipment. All you need to provide is the weapons and ammunition. We will provide everything else. MSTT’s Cadre understand the needs of the training NCO’s and officers. We speak your language and can operate in your environment. We want to be your primary provider of combat arms training for your teams!

What classes should we take?
We conduct courses in Tactical Rifle (M4 carbine and AK-47/74 platforms), pistol, and tactical scenarios. We recommend a 3 day unit training that includes a day of each system and a combined skills day.

For individual operators training on their own, we recommend our One Day Tactical Rifle class and our One Day Defensive Handgun Skills course. Follow that up with a Advanced Defensive handgun Skills class and a few Tactical Scenario days to reinforce your skills.

What if I am retired military?

We are reserving this offer for those warriors who are still in and have the potencial to deploy to one of the world's hot spots.  We appreciate greatly the retired warriors contributions to our national security and freedom.  We welcome those veterans to our classes and we know your experience will be invaluable to the other students!  But we ask that only current serving military warriors recieve this discounted training.

How do I move forward?
Just reach out and contact an MSTT Cadre today at MeanStreetsTactical@hotmail.com . One of our professionals will make contact with you immediately and schedule your training event. We hope to train with you soon!

Are YOU Ready for the Mean Streets?

The Story of Iron Mike

Leading the fight is U S Marine Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq . He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour.

Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US Marines. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater.

The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt , 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me...' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down.'

His fellow Marines cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt . 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. 'I flipped them one.. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.'

Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit.

Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

Semper Fi