text: In reply to message50951: I reached out to these instructors who are still contracted Instructors for the Department of Defense at a top notch military school. They agreed to teach but to do it, they needed to be paid for their services. One of the guys is a 24 year retired Army special forces guy and the other was a Ranger then CAG and retired after 21 years. Their fare was $350 per day for 3 days per each instructor plus travel expenses. That’s totaled around $4,600 which means we needed 55 people to register at the $100 each to cover the instructors and food for the 3 days. When the group split up, it was appeared we would not get 55-60 people registered so I asked a SERE instructor who retired from the AF to help teach and he agreed to teach at zero cost as long as we could cover his travel. That’s why the cost was reduced to $50 for registration instead of the original $100. Now this past Wednesday that instructor called me and stated that he wouldn’t be able to attend because he wasn’t able to get off of work. We were waiting to get his non refundable airfare till at least 25 people registered so we knew that the Warriors2US veterans retreat wasn’t going to be short and have to foot his travel expenses. Now that we finally have 27 people registered he can not get off with the later notice. The FTX is still on and I’ve got the class outlines complete. I’ll do the majority of the teaching and my fare is zero. If you’ve taken tactical class in the civilian market, you’ll know most classes are $300-$500 per day for each student. That $300-$500 at every other tactical school doesn’t include your housing or your food so usually classes cost $1500 with the cost of class, lodging and your food. For this FTX everything is covered for $50 and that all goes back to the camp that’s allowing us to use their facilities and cooking 5 meals.