Ronin Concepts CP Limited - News
First of all I do hope all Visitors to the site had a fine Christmas and here's to a great New Year from the Ronin team here in Hereford.
Just to remind readers that the Ronin web site was updated in January 2008. No great changes to the text apart from the delivery of more courses but the banner has become a lot more corporate looking in an effort to draw more operational business. We tend to pull our contracts more through word of mouth than advertising, then they visit the site and are sometimes a little unnerved by the paramilitary style, having said that the new site is still designed to flick the switches of former military former personnel, our core business, yes you!
Courses available now are as follows:
Hostile Environment Close Protection; as ever this course prepares people more than any course on the market to cross that border, prepared, motivated, skilled and switched on.
Corporate Close Protection; this course covers exactly the same core competencies in line with SIA directives as the above including dry weapon training but does not have the advantage of the live firing in the Czech Republic. A very popular itinerary for those operators intent on working in the UK and Europe.
Surveillance; surveillance is an important addition to your skill base in the market today. Let the Ronin staff guide you through this very rewarding and eye opening excursion based on quality operational experiences as you would expect from Ronin.
Theatre Specific Medical Training; whether you are looking for First Aid at Work (FAW) qualification for a security licence or something a little special like a pre-hospital care course such as First Person On Scene or (FPOS) we can accommodate you. We also run refresher course for qualified personnel who’s licence is due to run out, remember your run out date is six months before expiry.
Driving; Ronin is pleased to announce an exclusively designed advance driving course in partnership with South Wales Police. This course has at least one thousand miles of instruction within its one week curriculum and in an ‘accredited specialist qualification’ second to none. This will probably be your best move ever as driving is invariably your first assignment within a CP team; It could also be your last if your skills are wanting, however good intercept drivers are worth their weight in gold in the field.
To conclude, the above is only a sound bite of what Ronin Concepts have to offer. Our reputation for training is extensive, testimony not only to our achievements but also to the standard of operator that we produce. Recently companies have asked potential employees one question; have you done a Ronin course or other? Don’t be ‘an-other’, be a Ronin!
Consistent with our promise all Ronin operational posts are offered up on a first refusal basis to former Ronin students. A strategy that has proved to be sound for the past four years.
There is only one way, and that is the Ronin way. www.roninconcepts.co.uk
Posted 26th Jan 2008.
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Books
Highway to Hell by John Geddes
"Anyone entering Iraq must travel the road from Amman to Baghdad along the Fallujah by-pass and around the Ramadi Ring Road. It's the most dangerous trunk route in the world used as a personal, fairground shooting gallery by insurgents and Islamists with rocket propelled grenades and Kalashnikovs. For newcomers to the country it's terrifying - but hell only really begins when that first journey ends..." Present-day Iraq: a crucible of torture, chemical warfare and Islamic terrorism, and straddling over it all the mighty US Army and its allies; but there's another western army in Iraq that dwarfs the British contingent and is second only in size to the US Army itself. It's a disparate and anarchic multi-national force of men gathered from twenty or more countries numbering some 30,000. It's a mercenary army of men and a few women with guns for hire earning an average of $1,000 dollars a day.
Spearhead Assault: Blood, Guts and Glory on the Falklands Frontlines - by John Geddes
In the last great hand-to-hand battle of the twentieth century, the men of 2 Para bit off more than they could chew...but they chewed it anyway. On May 21st, 1982, nearly four hundred soldiers from the 2cd Battalion Parachute Regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert 'H' Jones, landed with a British Task Force at San Carlos Bay on the Falklands. Their mission: to take the strategic position at Goose Green where military intelligence reckoned there were a couple of hundred Argentine troops guarding an airstrip. The intelligence was wrong and when they attacked on May 27th, they were confronted by a 1,500-strong regiment of Argentine soldiers dug in with so much machine-gun ammunition they stood on the ammo boxes to keep their feet dry. Some of the enemy soldiers were Special Forces; some were Guarani Indians, a proud warrior race; a few even were Welsh-speaking members of a community founded in Patagonia in the nineteenth century.
