Citadel Defense: Do Brave Deeds and Endure

Dylan Schumacher

Lead Instructor

Qualifications, Certifications, and Live Training Courses:

• NRA Instructor: Home Firearm Safety

• NRA Instructor: Pistol

• MN State Certified To Teach Armed Training For MN Security Guards

• Minnesota Permit To Carry Instructor

• South Dakota Permit To Carry Instructor

• Haley Strategic - Castle Course (24 hours)

• QSI - Basic Handgun Course (9 hours)

• Tactical Response - Fighting Rifle (16 hours)

• Tactical Response - Fighting Pistol (16 Hours)

• Haley Strategic - Carbine Vehicle Darkness (30 hours)

• Sentinel Concepts - Essential Carbine Employment (18 hours)

• Dark Angel Medical - D.A.R.T. Medical Training (16 hours)

• Forge Tactical - Small Team CQB (32 hours)

• One Shepherd Warrior Basics (18 hours)

• One Shepherd STX; Retrograde and Delay / Counter Attack and Pursuit (18 hours)

• One Shepherd FTX (48 hours)

• Modern Samurai Project 1 Day AIWB and 2 Day Red Dot (24 hours)

• S&S Training Solutions CORE Small Unit Tactics 1 (35 hours)

• Kinetic Consulting Rifle Mechanics (20 hours)

Relevant Books Read/Courses of Study Taken:

• Dry Fire Reloaded

• The CSAT Way

• Super Squad

• Small Unit Tactics

• Light Infantry Tactics: For Small Teams

• Leadership and Training For the Fight

• The Gift of Fear

• The American Rifleman: Born of Armed Rebellion

• Official US Army Small Unit Tactics Handbook

• Tactical Manual: Small Unit Tactics

• Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

• Resistance to Tyranny: A Primer

• Pistolcraft: Forging Past and Present

• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

• In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection

• Deadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense

• Urban Rifle: 45 Years of Teaching and Training

• On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

• The Art Of War

• Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

• The Law

• Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life

• Principles of Personal Defense

• Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected

• The M1911 Complete Assembly Guide (Vol 2)

• Green Eyes & Black Rifles: Warriors Guide to the Combat Carbine

• Stay in the Fight!! Warriors Guide to the Combat Pistol 

• ESV Bible

Why I teach guns: If your day ever comes, I don’t want you to die. I want you to win that fight and go home to your own bed at night.

Hobbies (non gun related): Lifting, Dates with Wife, Reading, Video Games, Fine Food, Bourbon

Conceal Carry Setup: Glock 19, Streamlight TLR7a, Trijicon RMR, in a Philster holster (appendix). 

Other Stuff: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota, Master of Science in Project Management from Walden University.