Alain Burrese, an active shooter response instructor, served in the U.S. Army with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., and with the 2nd Infantry Division as a sniper and sniper instructor in South Korea. He is currently the Director of Active Defense Training for Reflex Protect.
His passion has always been to teach practical street application of his skills (many of which he has learned from 35 years of martial arts experience, primarily in the Korean art of Hapkido, in which he holds a fifth-degree black belt) to help people increase their survivability in dangerous situations.
Using that passion, Burrese has trained more than 6,000 individuals — including teachers, school administrators, doctors, nurses and staff — on basic and effective strategies of surviving active threat