Garrett Porterfield Email & Phone Number

Middleburg, Va

Black Dog Mobility (BDM) is a military mobility driver training and support company that provides essential advanced defensive/evasive and off-road driver training along with supplemental training options to a wide variety of groups. BDM maintains its own fleet of indigenous 4x4 vehicles to be used at our own private training areas, military facilities or shipped to any number of locations for our unsupported off-road driver training. They consist of diesel, gas, automatic, manual, RHD and LHD Toyota platforms that replicate vehicles found around the globe. Our small size combined with our extensive experience and knowledge working with various Special Operations groups for over a decade, allows us to be very flexible in how we implement our training to different groups with varying needs.BDM's private training areas range from 150 acres to just under 3,000 acres throughout North Carolina and Virginia. Whether your unit is training on MRZRs, non-standard tactical vehicles (NSTVs) or other vehicle platform, we have a training area that is able to accommodate it.Our unsupported off-road driver training that takes place in California is also a great option for mobility focused units. This training allows us to drive in austere environments - from dunes, mountains and desert terrain where we implement communication, land navigation, driving, recovery and NVG driving into a 5-day, 500+ mile exercise. We also provide military vehicle contractors design support, business development and supply chain integration. Owner, Garrett Porterfield, maintains a Secret clearance and is WPS II certified.

Summit Point, Wv

Security/Defensive Driver Training and Off-Road Driving Instructor

Crawfordsville, Ar

Security/Defensive Driver Training and Off-Road Driving Instructor

Middleburg, Virginia

2005-2016: Overland Experts LLC – military, civilian and industrial driving school. Director of Training and lead instructor for Virginia, North Carolina and mobile training sites with contracts with Army SF, Navy SEALs, State Department, CAG, Rangers and other various SOCOM and JSOC groups. Duties include instructing, course construction, contract writing and curriculum development.Instructor/Cadre for Newfoundland-Labrador-Nova Scotia, Iceland and Bolivia expeditions.Garrett has over 12 years of working as a military and civilian driving instruction in advanced off-road driving skills, field expedient repair, advanced vehicle recovery and NVG driving. He also has extensive experience in designing, developing and maintaining various driver training facilities in Virginia, North Carolina and Toronto, Canada. Mobile CONUS Training2014: Ft. Lewis, Washington – week long off-road training evolution for 2/75th Ranger Battalion using the HMMWV platforms. Created on-site training area prior to training. 2014: Death Valley, CA – week long unsupported training evolution for State Department MSD teams. Organized and facilitated 1,000 mile unsupported off-road training focusing on field mechanics, logistics and land navigation using privately owned late model Toyota Hilux platforms. 2014: Memphis, TN area (private facility/location) - week long training evolution for SOCOM group on experimental up-armored vehicle. 2008: Twenty Nine Palms, California - 14-day training 200+ Marines from the 3rd Mountain Division/Mountain Viper group destined for Afghanistan specific to HMMWV 1151’s. 2008: Camp Lejeune, North Carolina – 12-day off-road training evolution with MARSOC (Marine Special Operations Command) specific to the Toyota platforms.2007: Hawthorne, Nevada/Mountain Warfare Training Center – 14-day training 200+ Marines from the 3rd Mountain Division/Mountain Viper group destined for Afghanistan specific to HMMWV 1151’s.

Multi-disciplinary firm. Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners and Engineers.

Land Planner/Designer

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