Night Operations Summit NOV 20-22, 2026

Founder, owner and lead instructor, Don Edwards is a 20+ year veteran of US Army Special Operations. He began his career in the 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment where he was a participant in Operation Just Cause in Panama. Retired from 20th Special Forces Group where he served as Team Sergeant during combat operations in Iraq and Intel Sergeant while deployed in Afghanistan. Don has worked as a tactical adviser in the field to the Department of Defense since 2008 serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan, is a FLETC certified firearms instructor, and is the former Director of Training and LE sales for TNVC.

Sam Houston is a 10-year Veteran of the US Navy where he flew onboard P-3C Orion Surveillance Aircraft as a Flight Tech and Sensor Operator supporting combat operations in multiple theatres. Transitioning to the civilian sector, he became a qualified UAV Operator and Maintainer on RQ-27 autonomous systems logging over 2,000 hours supporting conventional and Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan both on the battlefield and remotely. Sam was also a thermal and electronic surveillance sensor operator on RC-12 Aircraft supporting US interests in the AFRICOM AOR, and owned and operated a night vision hog hunting outfitting service taking clients into the Florida swamps and forests to search, locate and harvest feral pigs with the aid of NV and thermal optics. From 2015-2022 he ran the NV Goggle Build and Repair programs for TNVC, is currently in the FL Nat’l Guard as a Forward Observer, and continues serving industry as a technical adviser and a night vision Subject Matter Expert.

Jon Jeu is a 20+ year veteran with over 10 years of law enforcement experience.

Jon began his military career in 1992 as an Infantryman in the Army National Guard. He served in various roles and assignments from positions in a Scout Reconnaissance Platoon, Military Police, PSD, Cavalry Scout, Training NCO, Readiness NCO, and Operations NCO at several units.

He was assigned to the National Guard Marksmanship Training Center in 2018. NGMTC is responsible for tactical small arms instruction and marksmanship competition across the nation and internationally where his experience and leadership was instrumental in training today's warriors. He became a member of the All Guard International Combat Team in 2019. This team competes nationally and internationally against other military forces around the world. Jon became the NCOIC of the team and conducted specialized training and competition training for some of the best shooters in the world.

Jon’s service includes three deployments: Iraq (2004-2005) (2008-2009) and Afghanistan (2012-2013).

Jon was hired at a municipal law enforcement agency in 1995 and entered the patrol division upon completing his initial training. He was selected as a S.W.A.T. Operator for his agency in 1998, where he performed duties as a Sniper, Explosive Breacher, and Entry Team Assaulter. Jon was assigned as an undercover narcotics investigator around 1999. Jon left Law Enforcement in 2008.

Herschel Garrett Wright is currently an active law enforcement officer in the State of Georgia. Mr. Wright has been in law enforcement for 17 years and currently holds the rank of Sergeant. For the past 13 years Mr. Wright has been a member of the agency SWAT team, currently serving as the Team Leader/Team Supervisor.

Up to this point in his career, Mr. Wright has served in the Patrol Division, Criminal Investigation Division, Criminal Intelligence/Gang Unit, Training Division, Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive Team (CBRNE) and SWAT team. While serving in these capacities, Mr. Wright has planned, executed, and resolved several hundred high risk operations, undercover investigations and overt operations.

Mr. Wright has had the pleasure of being assigned to various dignitary protection details including Vice President Mike Pence Counter Assault Detail and multiple high-ranking government officials. Mr. Wright holds various specialized certifications in the field of law enforcement which include multiple instructor certifications, physical security specialist, dignitary protection, and intelligence.

Mr. Wright’s law enforcement awards include the Medal of Valor for Courage Under Fire, two FBI Certificate of Commendation, and numerous other division and individual commendations. Mr. Wright currently resides in the coastal Georgia area.

Chris joins Blue Force Gear after retiring from the Army after twenty years of service; sixteen in the 75th Ranger Regiment as an infantryman, followed by four years with the Defense Intelligence Agency.While in the 75th Chris became an SME and instructor for carbine, pistol, CQB, and forced entry TTP’s as well as joint operations in general as an assaulter and strike force senior NCO. He was a sniper, and served as an element leader in a Sniper/Reconnaissance element; and was also the Master Breacher for 75th. He also helped develop and instructed covert carry and vehicle TTP’s for specific roles within both the Regiment and DIA. Chris is returning to the training industry and is honored to work with Blue Force Gear, as well as other premium brand partners and allies in an effort to provide education and expertise to those that seek it in order to benefit themselves, their teams, and their communities.

Jon served with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, deploying multiple times in various capacities. The Ranger Battalion also provided Jon with training and first hand experience in small unit tactics, airborne operations, field medicine, breaching, foreign languages and small arms.

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Upon leaving the Army, Jon worked in executive protection and acted as a law enforcement consultant, molding his military experience into a contextual view of the threats faced outside of combat environments. Jon comes to the firearms industry with an ideal blend of military and citizen; shaping his courses to apply to Mil, LE and citizen students alike.
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Jon holds multiple certifications including:

CPR/AED Certified

Emergency Medical Technician Course (EMT) Certification

NRA Certified Range Safety Officer

NRA Certified Pistol Instructor

ASIS Executive Protection Certification, R. L. Oatman and Associates Executive Protection Certification

Flight Safety International Certification

Technology Risk Assessment Course

GDBA Aircraft Emergency Course

GDBA Evasive Driving Techniques Course

GDBA Security Technology Course

GDBA Water Rescue Course

GDBA Threat Assessment Course

GDBA Information Security Course

GDBA Secure Transportation Tactics Course

Defensive Drivers Certification

Pashto Language Trained

Combative Level 1 Certified

Ranger First Responder Qualified

Limited spots available. First come first served.

Spend a night learning performance driving skills under the experienced tutelage of the driving instructors at The Ranch.

This course requires an additional $650 fee.

Prerequisites: Prior NVG experience and training such as NightFighter

Equipment List:

Helmet (ballistic or bump. No harness.)

NVG

Sturdy footwear

Weather appropriate clothing

NVG Shoothouse is an 8 hour introduction into structure clearing and room combat under no light and low light conditions.

This is not a live fire course.  NLTA solutions will be used such as UTM, Simmunition etc.  You will be notified as we get closer to the Summit if there are any ammo requirements or nominal additional fees.

Prerequisites - Students must have attended a 2-day tactical carbine training class and at least a reputable NV class or team CQB/Shoothouse class, that teaches initiative-based team Tactics.  Safe and proficient gun handling and shooting skills will be expected, no exceptions.

No Live ammunition is allowed in the training area PERIOD!!!! Leave it in your Vehicle!!!

Equipment list 

- Helmet (Non ballistic is permitted), Mount, Night Vision Device, Laser Aiming Module (mandatory)

- AR 15 style Carbine(5.56mm) properly zeroed with sling and weapon light. (mandatory)

- 100 rounds of Non-Lethal Training Ammunition and appropriate conversion kit.  This can be purchased through Fox Hound Firearms

- Minimum 2 magazines for your carbine 

- Appropriate training uniform, long pants, long sleeved shirt, boots, and close toed shoes.

- Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) and Tourniquet recommended

- Ballistic eye protection (mandatory)

- Spare Batteries for lights and optics/Lasers (mandatory)

- Handheld Tactical Light

- Gloves

- Water and snacks

- Sunblock/insect repellent as needed

- Cold/hot weather or Rain gear as needed

- Notebook/pen

- Cleaning kit with lube/tools (Rod and bore snake recommended)

Critical Engagement Skills Clinic is an immersion into the kind of training most people will never experience. Reacting to real humans doing real human things in the dark. This isn't cardboard and timers.

Working in one and two-person teams, you'll move through dynamic force-on-human ballistic engagements across a spectrum of low light and no light conditions, forcing you to toggle through all your technology in order to make the determination to shoot in the first place, and then make the shot(s) where and when they’ll count.  The constraints are real and change rapidly, the reps are fast paced, and the marksmanship standards are uncompromising. You will be held to a rigid performance threshold — doing exercises designed to expose the gaps that square-range training never will. The curriculum is built entirely around you: your weapon system, your capabilities, your outcomes.

What to expect:

·         Practical Human Engagement Simulations using your carbine with simulated ammunition

·         Dedicated and professional role players

·         You will NOT BE shot with simulated ammunition (we induce the stress of success in other ways)

Equipment List: (per student)

• A Great Attitude

• AR pattern Carbine w sling (Carbine should be zero’d when you arrive)

• 100 rounds of Simulated Ammunition / NLTA bolt

• Handheld and weapon mounted lights (with multiple sets of extra batteries)

• NVG’s

• IFAK and TQ

• Clear eye protection

• Water and snack food

• Range appropriate clothing / duty gear as applicable to you

• Tactical Gloves

• Pen and full size (8.5 x 11) notebook (you will be taking notes)

Pre-req is prior carbine training and a pistol class is recommended.

NightFighter lite is a condensed/abbreviated NV course for folks with little or no Prior NV training. It is lecture intensive with some range time. Topics covered are NV and Thermal technology and its accompanying accessories and enhancers. Think of the how, what and the why when it comes to Image intensification.

The range sessions help you better familiarize yourself with your equipment and best practices when it comes to its utilization. Both rifles and handguns will be employed. If you’ve been to the 2 night standard Format NightFighter this might not be the class for you.

Equipment:

·         Quality, serviceable Carbine with sling.

·         Weapon light, IR weapon laser, IR illuminator

·         Quality, serviceable pistol with holster, weapon light and night sights (red dot is optimal).

·         At least 5 quality magazines for your rifle and at least 3 Magazines for your pistol

·         Helmet (Ballistic or Non-ballistic bump) with shroud, night vision goggles or monocular with mount

·         Eye protection, wrap around

·         Ear protection, muff style are recommended

·         Spare Batteries for lights and optics

·         Handheld Tactical Light

·         Individual first aid kit

Round count - 150 pistol and 400 rifle

Friday night only. Join Jon Dufresne for a night of fun and challenging shooting competition. If you know Duffy, you know he loves a good friendly competition so join him Friday night and shoot stages designed by him at his personal NVG pistol competition.

Equipment:

Pistol with optic and sturdy holster.

Minimum 250 rounds of pistol ammo

Helmet

NVGs

Eye and ear protection.

This class is not a beginner course. It is fast paced and shooting intensive. It is formed around you as a shooter trying to be as efficient and consistent as possible while pushing your abilities. This 8-hour block is composed of a mixture of techniques, principles, and exercises to better you as a shooter. Most will experience failures in their skill levels that can be used to guide your training in the future.

Recommended Equipment:

• Ear and eye protection

• Helmet Mounted Night Vision (Gen 2 or better)

• Carbine with Red Dot Optic, IR Laser Aiming Device and White Light

• 3-5 mags 500-750 rounds of ammunition

• 2-3 mag pouches

• Water

• Personal Individual First aid kit (Gear to be used on you, if you don’t have one, please visit kinetic-consulting.net)

• Marker

• Notepad

• Snacks/Dinner

• Cleaning kit w/ oil

• Rain gear/Cold weather gear (depending on weather)

Fighting around vehicles is an extension of Structure Ops.  This is an 8-hour introduction into fighting as an individual and a team around obstacles such as vehicles under no light and low light conditions.

This is a live fire course

Prerequisites – Minimum Nightfighter and Structure Ops or similar Shoothouse course.  Must be a proficient shooter with appropriate gun handling skills.

Equipment list 

- Helmet (Non ballistic is permitted), Mount, Night Vision Device, Laser Aiming Module (mandatory)

- AR 15 style Carbine(5.56mm) properly zeroed with sling and weapon light. (mandatory)

- 300 Rounds of Rifle ammunition.  100 rounds of pistol ammunition

- Minimum 2 magazines for your carbine 

- Appropriate training uniform, long pants, long sleeved shirt, boots, and close-toed shoes.

- Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) and Tourniquet recommended

- Ballistic eye protection (mandatory)

- Spare Batteries for lights and optics/Lasers (mandatory)

- Handheld Tactical Light

- Gloves

- Water and snacks

- Sunblock/insect repellent as needed

- Cold/hot weather or Rain gear as needed

- Notebook/pen

- Cleaning kit with lube/tools (Rod and bore snake recommended)

Thanks to our friends at Knights Armament we will have loaner CNVDs for those of you who don’t have your own.

The addition of Night Vision in the form of a CNVD (Clip-On Night Vision Device) brings Scoped Carbine to the next level. This course will explore and teach the nuances of getting the most out of the specialized CNVD and it’s peripheral equipment. A magnified optic or scope on an AR increases the range that you can engage. Scoped Carbine bridges the gap between long range or precision rifle shooting and combat carbine. If you can see it you should be able to hit it, and you can with the right tools and understanding.

Prerequisites – This should not be your first Scoped Carbine or DMR style course

Topics Covered Include -

• Safety Brief

• Equipment selection

• Length of pull and eye relief

• Zero procedures and theory

• Data collection

• Ballistics

• Shooting positions

• Intermediate and long-range marksmanship

• Marksmanship fundamentals

• Multiple threats

• Rapid engagement

• Range estimation

• Use of optics and iron sights

• Use of cover

Equipment list -

• Positive attitude

• Quality, serviceable AR15 rifle 5.56 or larger with magnified optic, sling, bipod

• and at least 300 rounds of quality match grade ammunition 69/75/77 grain. (does

• not have to be match ammo but quality ammo that will shoot less than 2” group

• at 100 yards from your rifle.)

• CNVD

• IR illuminator and or laser

• At least 3 quality magazines for your rifle (20 round recommended)

• Spotting scope (optional)

• Shooting matt

• Rear support bag

• Kestrel or ballistic calculator (optional)

• Knee/elbow pads (optional)

• Eye protection, wrap around

• Ear protection, muff style are recommended

• Duty/call out gear

• Hat with brim or bill

• Water & Lunch

• Sunblock/insect repellent as needed

• Rain gear as needed

• Notebook/pen

• Cleaning kit with lube

Night Vision Rifleman (NVR) is a data collection class via marksmanship and skills that puts students into practical rifleman ranges in-conjunction with Image intensification systems as well as accompanying accessories to establish a new base line at which to function in low light and no light situations. NVR places a high emphasis on marksmanship fundamentals as well as the mastery of the gear needed to shoot accurately and effectively in the dark. There are strict gear requirements that need to be adhered to in order to thrive in this class.

Pre requisites: A vetted 2 day carbine course as well as prior NV training from a qualified training entity (Greenline Tactical/Kinetic Consulting/Presscheck Consulting/TNVC/Etc.)

Topics covered include

• Firearms and Range Safety and Medical evacuation plan

• Intro and course Task Condition Standard (explain scoring)

• Types of Zeros/ Zeroing Procedures/ Confirming Zero on Optics and Lasers

• Sling Techniques for stability/carry/shooting/obstacle negotiation

• 7 Fundamentals of Marksmanship

• Settings and modes for Lasers/Lights and Illuminators

• Positional shooting w/wo barricades (Standing, Kneeling (supported and unsupported), Sitting, Prone

• Passive and Active engagement (Lasers and Optics)

Equipment list

• Positive attitude

• A rifle/carbine set up for day/night chambered in a rifle cartridge (no PCC’s, no sub sonic ammo) with 300 rounds of rifle ammunition

• Rifle Sling (2-point adjustable sling highly recommended)

• Laser with IR/Vis laser along with IR illuminator (all in one unit highly recommended)

• Tall optic mounts with NV compatible optics for passive RDS shooting or piggybacked NV compatible optics

• Minimum 3x rifle mags with the ability to carry all 3 on your person (1 in the gun)

• Eye/Ear Pro

• Helmet/Mount/Nods 

• Spare Batteries for optics and lights/lasers

• Proper range attire and seasonal gear (no shorts, no open toed shoes, sturdy belt) bug repellent

• Tools to perform basic maintenance or repairs if you gun/optic goes down.

• Batteries

• Water

• Sun block/insect repellant as needed                        

•  Rain gear as needed

• Notebook/pen

• Cleaning kit with lube

The objective of this course is to provide armed professionals an opportunity to pressure test their fundamental tactical and tactical medical skills while under NODs in a low light no light training environment.  Attendees will learn through lectures, instructor-led demonstrations, hands-on skills practice, and live fire performance drills as individuals and as a small team.  It is recommended that attendees conduct this training in full tactical kit if able. This is a physical course with positional changes, movement, buddy drags and carries. One need not be an Olympian, but flexibility and core strength are attributes that will help you and your team persevere in the challenges ahead. 

It is recommended that students have had some type of prior medical training (Stop the bleed/CLS/TCCC/tactical medical course) but not a requirement. Get some medical training!!!! As always safe weapons handling is a requirement and major safety violations will not be tolerated.

Student Packing List:  *indicates mandatory item
To put this into context for attendees, you are part of a 4-6 person team about to enter hostile territory (at night) to retrieve a downed friendly teammate.  Therefore, wear or bring whatever you see fit to successfully accomplish this task.

1.     *Sturdy close toed footwear; absolutely no sandals or flip-flops allowed.    

2.     *Wrap Around Eye Pro and Ear protection (helmet mounted is ideal)

3.     *Load Carrying Equipment, Chest Rig, or Plate Carrier, Battle belt.

4.     Battle rifle with 2 point adjustable sling

5.     *Ammo, 450 centerfire rifle, 150 pistol (no green tip/penetrator allowed)

6.     *Support gear for battle rifle; 5x rifle magazines (label and mark them), 3x pistol magazines (label and mark them), cleaning kit/lube, spare batteries for optics/laser, etc.

7.     *Night Observation Device and support gear (IR laser, batteries, mounts, helmets, etc.)

8.     *1x Canteen; full of potable water or other water source (camel back/Qore Performance ice plate)

9.     *Wet/Cold weather gear

10. *Tactical gloves to protect against sharp/cold/hot/chemical injuries

11. *Knee pads can be clip on or inserted into pants.

12. *Head lamp (White/red) 

13.  *Real-World IFAK or Med Kit to be worn on your body throughout the class.  Recommend the following:
- Tourniquet; CoTCCC recommended x 1each
- Pressure Bandage; 4” wide or 6” wide x 1 each
- Wound Packing Material and/or a CoTCCC recommended hemostatic agent
   4yds, x2 packages
- Chest Seal (vented); x 2each
- Exam Gloves, Nitrile; x 2pair

- Tourniquet; CoTCCC recommended x 1each
- Pressure Bandage; 4” wide or 6” wide x 1 each
- Wound Packing Material and/or a CoTCCC recommended hemostatic agent
   4yds, x2 packages
- Chest Seal (vented); x 2each
- Exam Gloves, Nitrile; x 2pair

14. Training Med Kit/IFAK (instructor provided)

All medical training contents will be provided by LSM for training during class.
Attendees may try out different loaner gear during class.
All attendees will be issued loaner designated training gear and must be turned back in to LSM/Greenline cadre before leaving the training range.

15.  If you wish to have your IFAK or other Med Kits evaluated by LSM cadre during breaks or anytime during the Summit; please bring them.