Ken Murray
Master Instructor and RBTA Founder
Kenneth Murray is the Director of Training for the Armiger Police Training Institute (www.armiger.net) located in the greater Orlando area of Florida. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, he has spent his entire career as a police and military trainer, specializing in the field of Reality Based Training. His commitment to the realm of Reality Based Training (RBT) began after he co-founded SIMUNITION® with David Luxton as an offshoot of the Armiger Corporation in Ottawa, Canada. With RBT in its infancy and given the scarcity of information on the topic, he wrote numerous articles and policy papers on the safe conduct of projectile-based simulation training exercises. His book Training at the Speed of Life is used by agencies across North America and abroad as the foundation for building safe and effective scenario-based training exercises across the spectrum of responses from those in the police, military and emergency services communities.
Joe Collins
Master Instructor and Best Practices Training Standards Director
Joe joined the Two Rivers Police Department in April of 2005. He began his law enforcement career in August of 1985. During his career he has held numerous positions to include patrol, patrol supervisor, investigator, trainer, patrol administrator, and police chief. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Administration of Criminal Justice and an associate degree in Police Science and is working on his master’s degree in Managing Organizational Behavior. He has been a Master Instructor with the RBTA for over 20 years and led a team to completely revamp the Wisconsin Police Academy system to a scenario-based training methodology, utilizing the RBTA foundational training principles
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During his 35 years in law enforcement he has been involved in a number of specialty areas including SWAT, drug investigations, field training supervision, bike patrol supervisor, marine patrol, honor guard, use of force instructor, and many other areas.
He is a federally certified Use of Force and Firearms Instructor and has trained officers throughout the United States and Internationally. He is a member of the International Chief of Police Association (IACP) and the Wisconsin Chief of Polices Association and formerly served as the Chair of the Training and Professional Development committee for this organization. He also served as the President of the Wisconsin SWAT Association and spent 13 years on the board of directors.
He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, session 236, and is the 2015-2016 President of the Wisconsin FBI National Academy Association, Co-Chair of the FBI National Academy Associated Safety & Wellness Committee and member of the Finance Committee. He was appointed to the Wisconsin Training and Standards Board by Governor Walker and elected by the board to the position of Chairperson.
Rick Furr
Master Instructor
Rick Furr is one of RBTA’s longest affiliated instructors. With a DoD background, 30 years as the Ringmaster at Scottsdale, AZ PD, and one of the original instructors for both Gunsite and Thunder Ranch, Rick’s experience as a firearms trainer is unparalleled. His agency was one of the early adopters of both the Greenshield frangible ammunition and the FX Marking Cartridges.
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Dan Fraser
Master Instructor Candidate and Canadian Director of Training
Dan Fraser is a former Calgary Police Service member. He has been providing experiential training based on RBTA principles since 2006. Dan teaches with Chris Butler from Raptor Protection, Author of the Methods of Instruction program now taught in the USA by Force Science. Dan joins the team as our newest member of the training staff and brings his presentation development expertise to present and future RBTA training programs
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Dan was one of the early graduates of the RBTA Instructor Training Programs and went on with members of his agency to improve the use of force experiential training within his agency and abroad.
Mike Oschner
Master Instructor and Civilian Training Coordinator
Mike is the founder of Dry Fire Training Cards and author of Real World Gunfight Training. Mike has applied the science of Neurology to training principles designed to optimize gunfight skills in realistic and dynamic training settings.
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Jeff Johnsgaard
Master Instructor and Director of Research
Jeff Johnsgaard is a police officer in Canada currently working as a full time Detective Sergeant and a part time use of force instructor for his service and the police college. Jeff is also his agency’s lead instructor for Reality Based Training and is the RBTA director of research and training program development
