Advanced Bleeding Control

This course is the medical foundation for the Care Under Fire course. Basic First Aid concepts are introduced and quickly built upon to focus on a response to massive hemorrhage. Students will learn application of chest seals and stop the bleed skills with tourniquets, pressure bandages, and wound packing. Students will be challenged with realistic scenarios to test their skills.

Introduction To Firearms

Introductory course designed for those who are considering the purchase of a firearm, or new owners/users of firearms. 

Completion of this course also prepares the student to pass the Cal DOJ’s Firearms Safety Certificate, which is required prior to purchasing of a firearm.

This course is the prerequisite for the C Four Solutions Basic Handgun Course, a live fire course where students are taught to draw and fire their handguns from their holsters.

Basic Handgun

This course provides basic knowledge and hands on skills for pistol and revolver shooters. 

Prerequisite

Introduction to Firearms or Instructor Approval

Advanced Handgun

This course will continue to develop safe weapons handling and effective marksmanship while shooting from the holster.  

Prerequisite:                                

C4 Solutions Basic Handgun course or demonstrated ability as determined by C4 Solutions staff. Minimum abilities: Demonstrated safe weapons handling and effective marksmanship.

A Bump In The Night

Students will demonstrate safe weapons handling and effective marksmanship in a low-light environment while shooting from the holster, under time pressure.

Students will be taught flashlight and handgun light manipulations.

Students may address multiple targets, moving targets, no-shoot targets, responses from left/right/rear, positional shooting (e.g. prone, kneeling, etc.), and shooting on the move.

Prerequisite:  

This class is for C Four students who have completed Advanced Handgun

Care Under Fire

The CFour Solutions Care Under Fire and Tactical Field Care course teaches you the battle-tested skills needed to respond to traumatic injuries in a hostile environment. Care Under Fire helps you make informed decisions about the priority of essential actions while caring for someone during a critical incident. Tactical Field Care starts after the casualty is out of the immediate danger area and addresses immediate life threatening injuries that could not be assessed or managed under fire.

Prerequisite:  

This class is for C Four students who have completed Advanced Handgun and Advanced Bleeding Control

Shoot, Move, Communicate

The ultimate goal of small unit training is to integrate Initiative Based Tactics into real world responses. Initiative Based Tactics allow a small unit to move rapidly toward an objective, often without explicit communication, and without distraction by less important events. Example: An active shooter response that is conducted by a well integrated team using Initiative Based Tactics can quickly move past uncleared areas, unknown subjects, and other distractors to rapidly engage the threat. Teammates who frequently train together have common goals, objectives, strategies, tactics, skills, terminology, and equipment. They are familiar with others on the team and know that their responses to stressful situations will be based on their training.
In this course, we strive to bring that unit cohesion to two-person teams, be they spouses, friends, training partners, etc. We will start with a discussion of the two-person team advantages and disadvantages. We will then talk about how to determine which information is important to share with your partner, how best to communicate it, and how to know the message has been received. Then we will use the range to practice how to use your partner as a force multiplier while moving to contact or cover, while searching or responding to off-normal conditions, against single or multiple targets, and while solving problems.