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Texas Tactical

    License #F01237

About Us

Facility
We are located approximately 20 miles west of Fort Worth and about 5 miles north of Weatherford, TX.

Department of Public Safety (DPS) Certified Firing Range  #1840013
TX DPS Private Security Bureau License #F01237

Our facilities include:
1. 40 Yard horse shoe berms, for use for shoot house, and drive on range.
2. 50 Yard, 10-Lane Firing Range
3. 100, 200, & 350 Yard, Four-Lane Rifle Range (DPS Certified)
4. Rappelling Tower
5. Rural Training Area (i.e. land navigation, and rural movements)
6. Shoot House / Training House (paintball / Simunition®)
7. Gas Chamber
8. Obstacle Course
9. Cars and Buses for Linear Assaults
10. Classrooms
11. Barracks (Open Bay - 16 Man)
12. Simulation Training Room

Tommy Taylor - Owner/Chief Instructor
Tommy has approximately 20 years of military and civilian law enforcement experience. From 1987 to 1991, he served in the U.S. Army assigned to the 3/504 Airborne Parachute Infantry Regiment. After leaving the armed forces in 1991, Taylor pursued a career in civilian law enforcement. Taylor holds an Advanced Peace Officers license with more than 2,000 training hours. He is a TCLEOSE Firearms Instructor, Field Training Officer, and Less Lethal Shotgun Specialist. He has many specialty certifications to include, Motorcycle Officer, ROPES Facilitator, Rappel Master, Observer/Counter Sniper (US DOJ FBI), and Marine Safety Enforcement Officer. Taylor’s involvement with S.W.A.T. began in 1992 when he co-founded the Windcrest, TX SWAT team. Taylor retired in November 2007 from the City of Weatherford Police Department where he served as a patrol officer and team leader of the Weatherford/Parker County Special Operations Group. Taylor founded Texas Tactical in 1997 and continues to offer specialized tactical training to military and law enforcement personnel.

Kate Taylor - Owner/CEO
Kate joined Texas Tactical in 2003 on a part time basis and full time in 2010.  She has more than 15 years of business management and education experience.  Kate holds a Bachelors Degree in Education from Brandon Univeristy (MB, Canada), and both a Masters Certificate in Telecommunications and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Dallas.    

Gary Fitzgerald - Training Manager
Gary has approximately 15 years of law enforcement and security experience. From 1996 to 2000 he worked in security including personal protection. In 2000 Gary pursued a career in law enforcement and currently holds a Master Peace Officer license with 5600 training hours.  Gary is a TCLEOSE Firearms Instructor, TCLEOSE Instructor, and School Resource Officer and is a Department of State certified Instructor for Vehicle Dynamics/Off Road Driving, Protective Operations, Defense Tactics and Firearms. Gary was assigned to the Weatherford/Parker County Special Operations group while working as a Peace Officer at Springtown Police Department. In 2006 Gary began working as a contractor for the Department of State where he worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Haiti.

Art Molina - Instructor
Art is a Texas Certified TCLEOSE Firearms Instructor and CHL Instructor with over 30 years of experience.

 

Advisors
Charles H. Pitman, Lt Gen, USMC (Retired)
Timothy James Gutierrez, USMC - Advanced Precision Marksmanship Instructor
W.S. Repsess
Eva Carwile

Charles H. Pitman, LtGen., USMC (Retired).  Pitman retired from the Marine Corps in 1990 having served for 38 years, flying more than 12,000 hours in fighter, attack and reconnaissance aircraft and helicopters. His first SWAT operation was in 1973, when he flew a Marine helicopter over New Orleans in support of police, killing a sniper on the roof of the Howard Johnson’s Hotel. Since 1987 he has been involved in the training of Marine Corps Special Forces units. In 1996, he attended the Fairfax County Police Academy and became a Reserve Police Officer in Alexandria, VA. More recently, he has been training Marine Corps units going to Afghanistan and Iraq in counter-insurgency and convoy operations.
MILITARY BACKGROUND/HIGHLIGHTS
U. S. Marine Corps – Lieutenant General
1987-90 Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation
1984-87 Commanding General, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Japan
1982-84 Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Policy, Republic Of Korea
1979-81 Special Advisor to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff 

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