By Dan Eastes
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left the Army in October 2012 after 22 years; my resettlement had been aimed at a career in surveillance. I had
already used my Enhanced Learning Credits (ELC) to pass my qualification in Surveillance and was actively looking for a career in this line of work. I spoke to numerous other Surveillance operators, about how to get a “foot on
the ladder”they all advised me to get my SIA licence, but none of them told me which one to get. So I decided that
with the money I had saved and my ELC, I would go for the best qualification I could and, having looked through
numerous magazines and online (and again spoke to friends and friends of friends), I decided on the Ronin Concepts
Course held in Hereford.
The course consisted of four weeks, with a mixture of First Person on Scene Casualty Treatment, Executive
and Hostile Environment Training and culminated in a week of full bore live firing in Poland, on various weapons
(AK47, MP5, Glock 15/17).