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Following BPPE and State of California standards, AFPD maintains detailed records of student success to promote educational quality and transparency. This dedication to regulated reporting is a hallmark of licensed vocational schools, providing a level of institutional oversight and accountability that differs from informal training paths.
Our graduates are placed with vetted domestic and global security, EMS, and logistics firms. AFPD maintains strong hiring ties while following strict privacy rules.
Our Core Career Pathways
Specialized Security Training
Executive Protection Track
Master the fundamentals of high-threat protection. Ideal for civilians and military alike, this track bridges field experience with corporate security, covering risk management and team tactics to safeguard high-profile clients.
Leadership Skills
Physical Security Specialist
This program is for professionals aiming to lead security teams. You will learn about modern alarm systems, facility safety, and team management. It prepares you for supervisor roles in corporate or private security settings.
Medical & First Response
Emergency Medical Technician
Perfect for those seeking a medical career, this course covers life-saving skills and emergency care. It meets national standards and prepares you for roles as an EMT on ambulances or within private emergency response teams.
Business & Supply Chain
Logistics & Supply Chain Prep
This course helps working professionals master the movement of goods and operational planning. You will study global shipping and inventory management to prepare for careers in warehouse management and corporate logistics.
Expanded Skill Building
We provide more than just basic courses; our academy offers specialized training to make you more versatile. Whether you are a veteran or a security professional, our programs combine physical safety with medical response and logistics. By learning multiple skills, you become more capable in the field. This multidisciplinary approach ensures you are ready to handle the complex demands of modern security, medical response, or corporate operations from your very first day.
The training at AFPD is built on operational reality, not theory. Having served in high-consequence environments, I recognize the importance of their rigorous adherence to state mandates and instructional integrity. This is a mission-focused institution where veterans can transition their skills effectively using GI Bill benefits. The curriculum is tailored for those who understand that in executive protection and emergency medical response, there is no margin for error. AFPD delivers the professional depth required for deployment-ready success while ensuring service members preserve their long-term education resources.
U.S. Army Veteran | Former U.S. Dept of State | Former U.S. Dept of Energy | BPPE | BSIS | TFF
Lead Director
The people who built it teach it.
AFPD's programs are led and taught by professionals drawn from the highest tiers of government, military, law enforcement, and emergency medicine — each having done the work at the level they now teach. Every program is owned by someone who has performed it in the field, so what students learn reflects how the work is actually done.
Jerame Ayers
Founder & Instructor
Roger Gehring
U.S. Army · Dept. of State · Dept. of Energy · TS/SCI
Director of Evolutionary Training
20-Year Navy SEAL · Master Training Specialist · Counter-Terrorism · SDV Pilot
AFPD was founded in 2014 by Jerame Ayers, who built the first state-certified Executive and Diplomatic Protection training program in California. The school is a direct extension of his own career: more than twenty-five years protecting people and assets at the highest levels — government and private alike.His government service spans the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Energy, performed under Top Secret/SCI and Secret federal clearances. As a team leader in a State Department surveillance detection unit, he ran counter-terrorism and counter-surveillance operations protecting a U.S. consulate and its personnel. At the Department of Energy he served in force protection and on a federal tactical response team safeguarding special nuclear materials, and provided protective details for visiting dignitaries. That career began as a Cavalry Scout in the U.S. Army.He has carried that same discipline into the private sector, building protective operations and threat-mitigation programs for corporate and high-net-worth clients. He understands what private executive protection actually demands — discreet, relationship-driven, and accountable directly to the principal — a different craft from the government model, and one most instructors have never truly worked.Today he leads instruction at AFPD as a certified law enforcement firearms instructor and range master. Having designed California's first certified protection curriculum and trained the operators and instructors who came after him, he built AFPD for one purpose: to prepare students to do this work for real, on either side of the public-private line.
AFPD's advanced tactical training is directed by Roger Gehring, a retired U.S. Navy SEAL with twenty years in special operations and holder of the Master Training Specialist designation — the Navy's highest instructor qualification. A decorated combat veteran, he spent his career not only operating at the elite tier, but training the people who do.Across two decades with Naval Special Warfare, he served as a lead instructor across multiple SEAL Teams on the West Coast, developing and delivering instruction from foundational through advanced warfighting levels. He built and led counter-terrorism courses and train-the-trainer programs for each West Coast SEAL Team, ran pistol, rifle, and heavy machine gun programs, and served as a BUD/S instructor developing new SEAL candidates. He was also the lead instructor for the Navy's SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) mini-submarine program, for both training and combat deployment.His qualifications span the full range of the discipline: small-arms and heavy-weapons expert, demolition expert, hand-to-hand combat instructor, combat diver and SDV pilot, and certified range, demolition, and diving safety officer. Few instructors anywhere carry that breadth — and fewer still have the Navy's top instructor credential standing behind it.At AFPD, Roger applies that standard to the civilian and private sector, designing real-world, scenario-based instruction across firearms, close protection, and counter-terrorism for law enforcement, security professionals, and government clients. As Director of Evolutionary Training he also develops the school's own instructors, carrying elite military training standards into every program AFPD runs.
Vince Inaudi
Chief Academic Officer
Retired Police Chief · Licensed PI · EP Level 1 Instructor · Compliance
AFPD's academic standards are set by Vince Inaudi, a retired police chief, licensed private investigator, and the school's Chief Academic Officer. He is the architect behind how AFPD teaches, designing its curricula, refining its instructional methods, and overseeing the accreditation and regulatory compliance that keep its programs sound. He built that authority over a twenty-five-year law enforcement career at the City of Gustine Police Department, rising from reserve officer to Interim Police Chief. Along the way he served as a detective on a California narcotics task force, running undercover assignments built on surveillance and intelligence and testifying as a narcotics expert in both state and federal court. As a sergeant and commander, he led through critical incidents, including hostage and active-shooter situations, and as chief he managed departmental budgets, emergency-response protocols, and officer development. What he brings to AFPD is the discipline of someone who has both done the work and taught it. He is a certified firearms and defensive-tactics instructor, a Level 1 Executive Protection instructor, and a licensed private investigator who continues to run complex investigations. That range lets him bridge field reality and academic rigor — building programs that satisfy regulatory standards without ever drifting from how the work is actually performed. His mandate at AFPD is straightforward: make sure that what a student earns here reflects what the field genuinely demands, and that the program standing behind that credential is sound.
David R. Hunter, EMT-P, FP-C
Program Director, EMT Program
30+ Years EMS · Flight Paramedic (FP-C) · EMS Operations Chief · AHA/PHTLS Instructor
AFPD's EMT program is led by David R. Hunter, a senior EMS and air medical leader with more than thirty years in emergency medicine. The program reflects his own career: decades spent on the front line of patient care, in the air, and at the helm of the systems that deliver it.He spent nineteen years providing advanced life support in a high-volume California EMS system before moving into rotor-wing air medical operations as a flight paramedic one of the most demanding clinical environments in the field, where critical-care decisions are made under extreme time pressure. He holds a California Paramedic license and national Flight Paramedic Certification (FP-C).He has also run the systems behind the care. As a Division Chief of Operations and an ambulance-district chief, he has directed county-wide EMS operations, managed multidisciplinary teams, and carried responsibility for safety, readiness, and regulatory compliance across entire service areas so his students learn not only how to treat a patient, but how real EMS systems actually work. Teaching has run through his entire career. A field preceptor since 1999 and a certified AHA and PHTLS instructor, he has trained and evaluated paramedics for decades. Today he directs AFPD's EMT program to U.S. DOT National EMS Education Standards and California EMSA requirements, preparing students for NREMT certification and for the realities of the job from day one.
Andrew J.
Special Forces Senior Medical Sergeant
Special Forces · TCCC Instructor · NREMT-P · 5 Languages
Andrew J. brings Special Forces combat medicine to AFPD's training. A Special Forces Senior Medical Sergeant with TS/SCI clearance, he has spent the better part of a decade delivering advanced trauma care in austere environments prolonged field care and critical-care transport with limited resources and no guaranteed evacuation and teaching others to do the same. As a primary instructor he has led multinational training events across Germany, Greece, Scotland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Romania, building and running programs for students of widely varying backgrounds and nationalities. He is a Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) instructor and a National Registry Paramedic (NREMT-P), and his qualifications reach well beyond medicine — Special Forces sniper (Level II), advanced urban combat, and protective escort operations among them. He holds a B.A. from St. John's College and is proficient in five languages, including Russian at the Superior level. That combination battlefield trauma expertise, tactical skill, and instructional command across allied forces brings the most demanding end of field medicine into AFPD's classroom, preparing students for trauma care when resources are limited and the environment is unforgiving.