The Founding Cadre
Before membership opens, we're putting together the founding cadre: the leaders who build this organization, set its roles and training, and hold the standard everyone after them is measured against. The seats are limited and numbered.
Keep everyone connected when nothing else works.
What this seat does
Builds and runs the chapter radio program: the DMR network, the repeater and talkgroup plan, the programming files, and the field doctrine that keeps everyone talking.
What we look for
Licensed amateur or professional radio operators, dispatchers, or military / public-safety comms specialists who can teach others to operate confidently.
Safe, lawful, genuinely skilled shooters.
What this seat does
Leads rifle and pistol fundamentals, range safety, and a progression that puts safety and the law first, every session.
What we look for
Certified firearms instructors out of law enforcement, the military, or nationally recognized programs, with a spotless record and the temperament to teach.
The skills that save a life before help arrives.
What this seat does
Teaches tactical and wilderness medicine: bleeding control, airway, trauma, and the calm that only comes from drilling it.
What we look for
Physicians, nurses, paramedics, EMTs, or military medics, active or retired, who can build a curriculum and teach it to beginners.
The physician who stands behind every protocol.
What this seat does
Provides medical direction for the whole program: approves protocols and scope of practice, reviews the curriculum and the field kit, and puts a licensed physician behind what we teach so it holds to a real clinical standard.
What we look for
A licensed physician, MD or DO, ideally in emergency, EMS or trauma medicine, who will stand behind our protocols and keep the medical program honest. Experience as a medical director for an EMS agency or tactical team is a strong plus.
Rope, water, and the judgment to use them.
What this seat does
Runs rope and swift-water rescue training: rigging, movement over bad ground, and the judgment that keeps rescuers safe.
What we look for
Fire-rescue, swift-water, or technical-rescue professionals with current certifications and real field experience.
Turn a group of professionals into a chapter that runs.
What this seat does
Owns planning, logistics and the calendar. Makes training happen on time, on standard, and on the right side of the law.
What we look for
Military NCOs / officers, project managers, or operations leaders who can organize people and keep a standard without ego.
Stand up a unit that can answer a real disaster.
What this seat does
Builds and leads our Emergency Response Unit: the plan, the training, and the coordination that let members deploy safely to assist in natural disasters and major emergencies, in support of the authorities running the response.
What we look for
Emergency managers, incident commanders, or search-and-rescue and disaster-response leaders who know the incident command system and can organize people to work safely alongside professional responders.
Keep us lawful, and able to prove it.
What this seat does
Advises the chapter on firearms and use-of-force law, liability, waivers, and how we are organized, and reviews our standards and member agreements so everything we do is lawful and defensible.
What we look for
Licensed attorneys who work in firearms and Second Amendment law, criminal defense, or business and civil-liability practice, and can turn hard legal questions into clear guidance for instructors and members.
Document the work. Tell the story. Make it look as serious as it is.
What this seat does
Owns photography, video and written content: capturing training, cutting recruiting and instructional media, and keeping the Paratus brand disciplined across every channel.
What we look for
Photographers, videographers and editors who can work safely around live training and make serious work look as serious as it is. Tactical, outdoor or action-sports experience is a plus.
What we offer
What we expect
Real credentials, the temperament to lead and to teach, and a commitment to safety, the law, and the people you serve. Every seat helps build the society, not just run a class.
The process
Apply below, then an interview. Submitting an application is not acceptance. Every seat is earned.
Membership opens after the founding phase. Request an invitation and you'll be first to hear when it does.
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