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Executive Protection: Rules of the Road Checklist

Doc Rogers, Featured Articles

By Doc Rogers

There’s a good chance you’ll fail in your executive protection career unless you follow these simple rules of the road in this short article. You have entered this industry because you genuinely want to serve those you are assigned to protect. You’re on your way, but career survival while on the road is a difficult level. This short checklist will help you hone your skills while on both local and international road trips and make your principle super satisfied with your protective services.

In order not to irritate or annoy your principle while on the road, keep your eyes open and mouth shut. Be a good listener, not a talker. If asked a question, try to keep your comments upbeat without profanity.

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Top Executive Protection Schools

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To be successful in most fields you have to have some type of formalized or specialized education under your belt in order to teach you both the basic and advanced skills needed to succeed in a specific job. Whether that job is an auto mechanic, a draftsmen or accountant, those entering into the field of Executive Protection are also required to have some type of formal and advanced training.

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In many cases you will have an extremely hard time finding employment, either with a team or as an individual without a formalized education. It is also important to remember that as an Executive Protection Specialist you have to continue on your path for excellence. Just because you graduated from the ABC school of Executive Protection does not mean that your education is complete. It is imperative for you to constantly continue to learn; the old saying “knowledge is power” is true. The more bodyguard training you have the better off you will be and the more successful you will have in the EP industry.

It has been alarming to discover that many scam businesses and unscrupulous people are taking advantage of people who are eager to get into this field.

In the interest of providing our visitors with the best information available to succeed in this business, Bodyguard Careers has prepared the top Executive Protection Specialist school listings in response to this dishonest trend. Countless inquiries from individuals who have asked for basic information regarding education and training also contributed to it. Brief descriptions of each bodyguard schools are included. Please be sure to visit them to learn firsthand how they can be of help to you. I look forward to sharing in your success. I know you will find as I have, that you are on a career path that is both interesting and profitable.

Sincerely

Harlan (Hucky) Austin

It’s Time to Invest in You! Buy our guide to the Top Executive Protection Schools for $9.95 Today!

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The Importance of Dynamic Firearms Training

Featured Articles, Mark Six James

By Mark James

Rule #1 in gun fighting: It is more important not to get shot than it is to shoot; shooting is extra credit.  A gun fight is nothing more than a fight that involves a gun.  In a hand-to-hand encounter (fist fight), whether you have combative skills are not, moving to not get hit is typically instinctive.  Then you look until you hit your adversary as hard as you can as often as you can until you neutralize the threat.  The strategy in a gun fight is the same, whether moving to 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, or 11 o’clock to avoid getting hit.  These encounters are dynamic and rarely predictable. Effective fighters learn to go with the flow and let the situation dictate their response.  Very rarely, if at all, do you stand in place, you move to get off the line of attack as you simultaneously or nearly simultaneously launch your counterattack.  Remember many of these encounters happen inside of 10 feet and most at bad breath distance.

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The Mission of Protection: Part 5

Featured Articles, Rick Colliver

Prevention of Embarrassment

I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough information to complete this series, because our leaders and entertainers never do anything embarrassing. Now that I have your attention, please stop giggling or cursing and continue reading.

When we speak about acts of embarrassment, we tend to think of any action that can publicly demean our protectee.  We have to consider not only acts undertaken by the protectee themselves, but also their family and friends. There is no shortage of examples, but I have plucked a couple out of the tabloids for your reflection.

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Many Ways to Follow Bodyguard Careers

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Hello Everyone,

It’s me, Jeff, the lesser known behind the scenes guy for Bodyguard Careers.  While Hucky continues to be the face (both literally and figuratively) for the site, I continue to try and find ways to make the website better for our readers.

We have been working hard to bring the Bodyguard Careers community to you, and we have some exciting things to share with you in the near future.

For now, I am posting to let you know that there are several ways that you can connect with Bodyguard Careers.  Find us on your favorite channel:

Our Website – www.bodyguardcareers.com

BGC Site You can always keep up to date by visiting our website.  Here is where you will find the most up to date content posted, comment on posts, and contact us with questions/concerns and ideas for articles.

While we love having everyone visit our website, and we hope you visit several times a week, there are also other ways to keep up to date with Bodyguard Careers.

Perhaps you didn’t know, but we also offer these options for connecting:

Our Email Newsletter – (You can Sign Up to the Left)

BGC Email Sign UpEvery Thursday morning, we send out an email highlighting articles, jobs and more that were published during the previous week… and maybe even some content that is exclusive to the email newsletter.  At the time I write this, we have a list of 3,500+ people who have expressed their interest in receiving our newsletter.  That number is far higher than we ever thought we would see when we created the site in 2005.

RSS Feed Reader

BGCRSSFor those of you who are tech savvy and follow websites through your RSS Reader, you can add Bodyguard Careers to your feed reader and be notified of our new posts within a few hours of when it’s posted.  If you follow a lot of websites and don’t always have the time to visit them all, this can be a great way to stay informed when a site is updated.

Here is our feed address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BodyguardCareers

Facebook Fan Page


While we haven’t formally announced it yet, we have had a Facebook Fan page for a few months… and we already have 200 fans!  If you have a Facbeook account, we definitely recommend becoming a fan of Bodyguard Careers, because you can start to interact with the community right within Facebook.  Here is a link to the page… hope to see you as a fan!

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Twitter @bodyguardcareer

BGCTwitterTwitter’s character limit prevented us from using our full name, but the effect is the same!  You can now connect with Bodyguard Careers on Twitter by following @bodyguardcareer.  While we have had an account for most of 2009, we don’t have nearly enough followers! Join the community on Twitter and let’s get connected.

(interesting fact – the guy in sunglasses in the photo above is me!)

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