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FORTUNE FAVORS THE PREPARED Ready TrainerThe whole FFTP training library on one USB drive. 97 courses, no internet needed. Semper Paratus, Semper Gumby |
Ready Trainer is available now, on its own or with Ready Ledger. Delivered on a USB drive, licensed to your household or group.
Learn the skill. Check your work. Put it to use.
Ready Trainer is the Fortune Favors the Prepared course library, on a USB drive you own. Planning, communications, medical, intelligence, security, navigation, logistics, food storage and mutual assistance group operations, taught the way emergency services actually work, and adapted for households and groups.
Every course was built by an emergency manager with 30 years in law enforcement, EMS, search and rescue, 911 dispatch and emergency operations. Each one ends with something you can use: a report you can send, a plan you can print, a drill you can run with your family or group.
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97 courses on the drive |
9 specialist tracks |
6 foundation courses everyone takes |
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190+ hours of online instruction |
2 printable PDFs with every course |
0 internet needed to take a course |
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No install Copy the folder to your computer or run it from the drive. Open the launcher and pick a course. |
No internet Every course, guide and one-pager works offline. Learn when the cell towers are down. |
No account No login and no subscription server. Your progress stays on your computer. |
START HERE
Track 0: the universal foundation
Everyone in your household or group takes the same six courses, in this order. It gives everyone one vocabulary: OPSEC, SALUTE, MARCH-PAWS, PACE and the family plan. Specialist courses and group practice never have to stop to explain the basics.
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1 · SEC-02 Know What You’re Showing |
2 · INT-03 Tactical Reporting Formats |
3 · MED-01 MARCH-PAWS Tactical Trauma |
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4 · MED-02 Know Your Patient |
5 · COM-01 PACE Communications Planning |
6 · PLN-10 Family Emergency Plan |
NINE TRACKS
Then pick the role you fill
Filter the library by track and take its courses in code order. Each one assumes you finished the one before it, and most tracks end in a capstone that puts the skill to work for the whole group.
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Communications 15 courses Net procedures and prowords; COMSEC and the ICS-205 comms plan; NTS message formats; authentication, one-time pads, DRYAD sheets and CRYPTOSEC; EMCON, direction finding, mesh networks, NOAA Weather transmitters, dead drops and couriers; COMCON; ending in the group’s communications plan. |
Security 14 courses Member vetting; surveillance detection and operations; digital security; internal security and counterintelligence; applied OPSEC; grey man, cover and consistency; the surveillance state; evasion and safe haven; recognizing recruitment; immediate actions after compromise; ending in the group security assessment and OP/LP. |
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Intelligence 20 courses Competing hypotheses and the most dangerous course of action; radio traffic analysis; OAKOC terrain and reading your ground; OPSEC for households; area intelligence; the intelligence cycle, collection requirements and sources; elicitation and debriefing; pattern of life; OSINT; a neighborhood intelligence network; reading the alert; ACE/LACE reports. |
Medical 9 courses DCAP-BTLS secondary assessment and START triage; MEDEVAC requests and CASREP; patient care documentation; wound care and infection; wilderness and extended care; IFAK contents; ending in the group medical plan. |
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Planning 8 courses Community situational awareness and the Community SITREP; METT-TC; PREP-CON and CONCON; GOTWA; ethics under pressure; shock, grief and recovery. |
Logistics 8 courses Logistics and supply; cache planning and inventory; needs, acquisition and receiving; household and shared food planning; activation and the annual drill; fuel, power and mechanical; property accountability; a capstone. |
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Leadership 3 courses For whoever runs the group: formation and governance, incident command (ICS/NIMS) for groups, and CERT and community integration. |
Food 7 courses Starting a program; inventory management; bulk buying; strategic couponing; extended and long-term storage; food preservation; ending in feeding the whole group. |
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Navigation 5 courses Grid coordinates and map reading; map and compass; GPS; signaling and ground-to-air signals; rally points, linkup and route contingencies. |
EVERY COURSE, BUILT THE SAME WAY
You always know what you are getting
- Lessons in order, short and building on each other, with a course map so you always know where you are
- Knowledge checks through the course. Miss one and it tells you which lesson to go back to
- A completion certificate to print when you finish
- A companion guide (PDF): the full course in print, for the binder, the go-bag, or a group that trains without screens
- A one-pager (PDF): the sheet you tape to the wall or keep by the radio, with the steps, formats and key terms
- Related articles from the Fortune Favors the Prepared library, one click from the course card
HOW IT WORKS
Four steps, every course
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1 · Pick a track Start with Track 0, then filter by the role you fill. |
2 · Learn it Work the lessons with the companion guide open beside them. |
3 · Check it Pass each knowledge check, then print your certificate. |
4 · Use it Log the certificate in Ready Ledger and drill it with your group. |
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COMPANION TO READY LEDGER Learn it here, keep it in your LedgerPlan it in Ready Ledger, learn it in Ready Trainer. The PREP-CON ladder, Community SITREP, PACE contacts, ICS-205 comms plan and supply targets you keep in the Ledger are the ones these courses teach you to use. Every Ledger page links to its related course, and Send to Ready Ledger puts each person’s finished and in-progress courses on their training record. About Ready Ledger · Order Ready Ledger |
TRAIN YOUR GROUP IN PERSON Same content, hands onCourses are built with an in-person version for your MAG, church, CERT team or workplace: the same material, with time to practice it together. Contact us through fortunefavorstheprepared.com to schedule an instructor-led session. |
FOR HOUSEHOLDS AND GROUPS
Everyone speaks the same language
Have every member finish Track 0 before your first group session, then assign specialist tracks by role. ICS, SALUTE, START and PACE are the terms your county emergency manager, CERT team and ARES net already use, so your group can work alongside them. Take the full library, or just the tracks you need; courses outside your package show as locked.
Ready Trainer is available now
97 courses on one USB drive, licensed to your household or group, with a Read Me First guide. Pair it with Ready Ledger and each person’s courses go on their record.
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Ready Trainer · built by an emergency manager with 30 years in the field |
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