About Us
OUR STORY
Trigoon (/try-ɡo͞on/) Dynamics was founded by a group of instructors. Throughout their years of training and instructing for other schools, they noticed improvements that could be made to the firearms training curriculum available to the community.
Meet the team
Note: All of our instructors and RSOs are NRA certified. Click here to view the certifications of our lead instructors.
Instructors
TERENCE ''T'' LIBERATO
T is our lead instructor. He is a military veteran, who served 12 years in the Army and Air Force, with multiple deployments to the Middle East. He also has experience in Law Enforcement (LE). One of his duties in both professions, is being a firearms instructor. T has instructed countless MIL, LE, and civilian students.
Ken S.
Ken is a retired law enforcement officer with decades of firearms experience. His assignments were in patrol, traffic, K-9, and SWAT. He served in the U.S. Air Force as security police. You will often find Ken volunteering his time with the AZ Civil Air Patrol Cadets.
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Jason Wang
Jason is currently employed in the insurance industry. He initially joined the firearms world out of fascination, but it quickly grew into a desire to learn and educate others.
Jason purchased his first firearm at 21, and fell into a common first-time gun owner misconception: as long as I know how to pull the trigger, I can operate the firearm. It wasn’t until he took his first class that he realized there was much more to firearms than what appears on the surface. His goal is to educate others, so they don’t fall into the same misconception he did.
Melissa K.
Melissa K. is a new instructor to our team! She began her journey by wanting to feel safe around firearms. Her first class was an NRA Pistol class with Manning Firearms Training & Tactics. Melissa is one of the very few students who say they will practice on a consistent basis, actually show up. Melissa became an instructor because she found it empowering and fun to help others feel safe too.
Adjunct Instructors
Chester Manning
Chester is the owner of Manning Firearms Training and Tactics. He is a retired law enforcement officer with decades of firearms experience. He was a firearms instructor for multiple departments, as well as being a paramedic and firefighter. He is an NRA Training Counselor (someone who can train and certify others to become NRA instructors), and is an AZPOST and LEOSA trainer. Chester is well-known within the Southern AZ firearms community. He has trained and certified most of the instructors in the area, including us! Chester is also known to volunteer his time (and money) to provide firearms education to our community’s youth. Chester is both an instructor, and advisor/mentor to the Trigoon Dynamics team.
Jay Okimoto
Jay is the owner of Crosswalk Technologies, a business technology consultant and solutions provider. Jay has decades of firearms training experience and owns his own school, Crosswalk Readyness. Jay helps host the annual GSSF match at Tucson Rifle Club every November, as well as volunteering his time as an instructor to help our community’s youth with firearms education. Jay created the website for a local shooting club, Southern Arizona Practical Shooters, with the hopes of attracting new shooters to the club and matches! (Free practices every Tuesday!). Jay serves as an firearms instructor, and advisor/mentor to the Trigoon Dynamics team.
RANGE SAFETY OFFICERS (rso)
Leslie Okimoto
Leslie works in the orthodontic world. If she isn’t working or helping Jay with their businesses’, and it’s snowing nearby, you’ll find her shredding the slopes. (You gotta watch out – she’s a professional speed demon!)
More info on additional instructors and RSOs are on the way!