We are dedicated to providing affordable firearms training for the Law Abiding Citizen, LEO’s, and the Military. We provide an active course of instruction with experienced staff.
Our staff is dedicated to teaching those who are Risk Takers by purpose or by chance.

RSKTKR Consulting (Originally “RiskTaker Services”) was formed in 2004 due to a recognition that the current training in Military and Law Enforcement circles was lacking real world guidelines and some fundamental skill-sets were flawed. Recognizing this, “Doc” Hewett set out to provide better training in a more realistic manner to supersede and improve on some of the inherent flaws in the system. The RSKTKR Training philosophy revolves around not what we can do but what we can teach you to do. You will not see a bunch of show-offs in our classes. “Doc” and his team teach you in a friendly manner what you need to become a better shooter.

Michael “Doc” Hewett is the owner and lead instructor of RSKTKR Consulting, a veteran-owned training, intelligence, and risk management company originally founded as RiskTaker Services in 2004. The company was built around a simple idea: people and organizations make better decisions when they have better training, better information, and a clearer understanding of risk.

Doc spent 11 years in the U.S. Navy, beginning in security and law enforcement roles before transitioning into the medical field as a Corpsman attached to Marine Corps reconnaissance personnel. That experience placed him in close support of personnel operating in demanding and uncertain environments, where sound judgment, clear communication, and practical risk assessment mattered as much as technical skill.

After leaving active service, Doc continued working in high-risk and security-focused environments as a private military contractor in the Middle East and Europe. His experience includes static security, force protection, protective security, firearms instruction, operational support, range operations, and overseas military mentoring. He later instructed advanced pistol, concealed carry, and firearms skills for federal law enforcement personnel at the Federal Air Marshal Training Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Over the years, Doc’s work has expanded from hands-on training into operational intelligence, protective intelligence, emergency planning, and organizational risk management. He has supported private security firms, corporate teams, emergency response efforts, protective operations, and overseas projects by helping leaders identify threats, understand vulnerabilities, and make informed decisions before problems become emergencies.

Doc’s intelligence and risk management work focuses on turning scattered information into usable insight. His approach blends open-source intelligence, field observation, operational reporting, human behavior, threat pattern recognition, and plain-language analysis. Whether assessing regional instability, protective security concerns, public sentiment, travel risk, emergency response posture, or client vulnerability, Doc’s goal is the same: give decision-makers information they can act on.

In recent years, Doc has also moved into AI-supported intelligence and risk management systems. He has worked on concepts and prototypes for AI-assisted tools that support risk scoring, public sentiment analysis, social media monitoring, emergency management reporting, protective intelligence, and client-facing threat assessments. This includes developing workflows, report formats, scoring models, and automation concepts designed to help organizations collect information, assess risk, and produce timely intelligence products without needing a large in-house intelligence staff.

His current work includes projects such as Grey Flag, an OSINT and protective intelligence concept focused on giving organizations practical, affordable access to risk reporting and threat awareness, and PULSE, a public sentiment and emergency management analysis concept designed to help agencies understand community needs, public perception, and response gaps during and after incidents.

Through RSKTKR Consulting, Doc brings together training, operational experience, intelligence analysis, emergency preparedness, and AI-supported risk management. His work is especially focused on helping security teams, emergency managers, business leaders, and private organizations improve readiness without getting buried in jargon or overbuilt systems.

Doc’s teaching and consulting philosophy is simple: information is only useful if people can understand it, trust it, and act on it.

Whether he is teaching firearms, trauma response, emergency preparedness, intelligence reporting, or risk management, Doc focuses on practical skills, clear communication, and real-world application. His background allows him to speak comfortably with military personnel, law enforcement, private security professionals, executives, emergency managers, and everyday citizens who want to be more prepared.

RSKTKR Consulting was created for those who become risk takers by profession, by circumstance, or by choice. Today, that mission continues through training, intelligence, risk management, and practical technology designed to help people make better decisions when the stakes are high.

“Red” -Andrea H. Co-Owner, is “Doc’s” wife, and has been teaching Martial Arts for 10 years with a short competitive career, and Firearms for 6 years.

An accomplished and competent shooter, she can hold her own in all disciplines of shooting. She holds a degree in Psychology and heads up the administrative side of the house making sure all the classes run smoothly.