{"id":73709,"date":"2017-08-01T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73709"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:59","slug":"lucien-black-aka-michael-douglas-thervil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73709","title":{"rendered":"Lucien Black, aka Michael Douglas Thervil; World&#8217;s Worst Firearms Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73710\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-1-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen this guy, Michael Douglas Thervil who goes by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/voda.consulting\">Lucien Black<\/a> on Facebook. He claims to be a military-trained firearms instructor, that he trained special forces soldiers in firearms handling and he claims that he was a security officer while he was in the military, among other things;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73711\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-4-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-4-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-4-280x333.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Michael-Douglas-Thervil-4.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He has an executive protection company according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucien-black-4b7290104\">LinkedIn profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/bob-o\/2015\/11\/12\/worlds-worst-firearms-instructor-lives-fayetteville-nc\/\">Bob Owens<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barstoolsports.com\/barstoolu\/guy-known-as-worlds-worst-firearms-instructor-finally-stripped-of-credentials\/#getcomments\">Barstool Sports<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxim.com\/news\/video-worlds-worst-firearms-instructor-stripped-credentials-2017-6\">Maxim<\/a> have all called him the &#8220;World&#8217;s Worst Firearms Instructor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He makes videos in which he unsafely handles firearms.  ALL guns are ALWAYS loaded &#8211; you don&#8217;t point a weapon at anything you  don&#8217;t intend to kill;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NX6GKntzJbs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And you probably don&#8217;t want to shoot into the ceiling at the range;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmichael.thervil.77%2Fvideos%2F147607406020858%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Assault with a Deadly Weapon is probably a disqualifier for weapons instructors;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73726\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Thervil-Arrest-Report-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Thervil-Arrest-Report-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Thervil-Arrest-Report-236x333.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Thervil-Arrest-Report.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he did serve in the Army but his firearms instruction was minimal &#8211; he was a nutritional care specialist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/28th-Combat-Support-Hospital-234073283404140\/\">28th Combat Support Hospital at Fort Bragg<\/a>, NC (a hospital cook). He might have trained special forces soldier on how to eat healthy, but luckily, he didn&#8217;t teach them how to shoot;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73712\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-AA-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-AA-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-AA-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-AA-341x333.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-AA.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73713\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73713\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-Assignments-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-Assignments-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-Assignments-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-Assignments-500x211.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Mike-Thervil-FOIA-Assignments.jpg 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He had 18 months on active duty and he left as a Private First Class (E-3), so you can&#8217;t blame his poor firearms training on the Army. I understand that the NRA pulled his instructor certs because of some of his videos. I guess he forgot all of the military firearms training as well as his military nutritional training.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=73727\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73727\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hqdefault-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hqdefault-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hqdefault.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen this guy, Michael Douglas Thervil who goes by Lucien Black on Facebook. 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