About The Badlands Family

Mission and Vision Statement

Badlands Tactical Vision Statement

Badlands Tactical Vision StatementTo provide the highest quality, most realistic firearm, tactics and doctrine training available, and to do so in a safe but challenging environment.

To be the forefront of economical, quality training because we recognize that our students deserve the best.

To offer real-world experience in order for our students to learn.

To ensure that the instructors and staff at Badlands give their best every time, every day.

To maintain a family environment and relationship with our students. Past, present and future, and to offer a safe home for those students in which to learn and grow.


Badlands Tactical Mission Statement

To take our vision and apply it in every course we teach and to every student who trusts us to help them further their professionalism. It is our vision to promote the “Quiet Professional” in all of our students. To us, this means we want our students and alumni to continue to grow and foster their own “Professionalism” by calling Badlands and its faculties and resources home.

Badlands wants all of their students and alumni to continually aspire to a level of “Unconscious Competence” in their chosen endeavors and allow us to help them with that challenge by promoting a doctrine of “Brilliance in the Basics”.

But the most important mission Badlands aspires to is to help the “Quiet Professional” in staying alive and saving lives in today’s turbulent world. Whether that “Professional” is a soldier, a paid civil servant, or just someone who desires to learn skills to protect themselves or their families.

We intend to complete this mission in the most financially economical manner offered in the Tactical Training Community.

Badlands Tactical Instructors

We ensure that the instructors and staff at Badlands Tactical give their best every time, every day.

Michael Lake

Michael Lake

Staff Instructor

Richard (Rich) Johnson

Richard (Rich) Johnson

Staff Instructor

Steve Speaks

Steve Speaks

Staff Instructor

Steve Suttles

Steve Suttles

Honorary Staff Instructor