About the academy
A licensed academy with a live range
East Texas Security Training Academy is a Texas DPS licensed training academy in Longview, established in 2024. We teach the courses the state requires to work security, and we teach the range days ourselves rather than sending you somewhere else for them.
2024
Established in Longview
Texas DPS school license
13
DPS and NRA instructor certifications held
Our story
Why we started
I built East Texas Security Training Academy because for people in rural East Texas, getting licensed has meant driving to a metroplex.
When I got my own Level 3 and Level 4 licenses I had to drive to Arlington for them. About $250 each, a month of waiting for a class to run, several nights in a hotel, and one night sleeping in my car because the hotel was costing more than the course. At the shooting portion they charged range fees on top of everything I had already paid.
Longview had nothing like it, so I built it here. The online courses are available the moment you enroll, the in person classes run on a schedule that does not make you wait a month, and range fees are in the price with nothing collected on the day. I teach the range days myself at our range. This is a Texas DPS licensed academy, and the person who signs your certificate is the person who taught you.
If you are not sure which license you need, call me before you buy anything. You will get me, not a call center, and I would rather spend ten minutes telling you that you need a different class than take your money for the wrong one.
On the range
What a class actually looks like
Shot on our range in Longview.
