Morgan Atwood

Founder of the multi-disciplinary survival and self protection training firm BFE Labs, Morgan is a former EMT-B and Wildland Firefighter.


Involved in EMS off and on for ten years, Morgan worked in rural and wildland/urban interface environments, getting hands-on education in delayed transport times, improvised wilderness care, and the finest the city has to offer: The results of violence, narcotics, and human error.


In addition to completing EMT training in 2004 (Technical Vocational Institute of NM/NM EMS Academy) and again in 2010 (Central New Mexico Community College), Morgan has completed coursework in a range of emergency medical and first responder skill sets, to include Emergency Response to Terrorism (TVI), Disaster Response (TVI, US Forest Service), Disaster Preparedness (University of Pittsburgh/Coursera), and private sector training in first aid and medicine for tactical and austere environments.


A lifelong student of self protection and wilderness skills, Morgan grew up on a remote cattle ranch, and began his involvement with martial arts at the age of 7. He began learning to shoot the same year, and has continued to pursue combative skill and wilderness knowledge ever since.


Founding BFE Labs in 2008, while majoring in Psychology and pursuing a Pre-Med course track at New Mexico Tech, allowed Morgan to bring together his interests in personal defense, survival and medicine as a functional whole. BFE Labs exists to bridge the gaps between self defense, wilderness and first aid training, and provide high quality tools and concepts for dangerous environments, for everyday people and working professionals alike. Since 2008 BFE Labs has provided medical and survival training, and custom equipment and tools to individuals and groups ranging from foreign correspondents, to soccer moms, law enforcement, family doctors and elements of the U.S. Special Operations community.


In addition to running BFE Labs, Morgan provides risk-services for remote ranching and industrial operations, and is currently director of risk-operations for the historic W-Triangle ranch; responsible for security, medical and disaster planning, training and response.

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  • Rob BrotzmanRob Brotzman 

    Dept. Head of East Coast Operations

    Rob considers himself a “student of the gun.” He’s always seeking out more training, techniques, equipment, and information to give him an edge, whether it be in competition or in a self-defense situation. Introduced to firearms for both sport and protection at a very young age, he is an avid hunter and outdoorsman, who excels at tracking wildlife as well as the occasional human.

    He makes his daytime living as a video engineer and a two-time Emmy-winning videographer, and is also a member of and the firearms trainer for Wolfpack Missing Persons Search and Recovery. His eye for the camera lens and knowledge of firearms and tactics make him a natural fit as the department head of East Coast operations.

    In his down time he enjoys competitive shooting, tactical training, hunting, fishing, and general outdoor badassery. He also enjoys taking long walks on the beach with his beard, and making his partner Nathan’s life utterly miserable at odd hours of the evening.

  • Nathan WagarNathan Wagar

    Executive Director; Core Material Coach

    Nathan joined the Army at 17 to escape a lifestyle in California gangland, and deployed twice to northern Iraq with 101st Airborne. He was selected along with other individuals from the infantry recon sections in the battalion as part of a special task force charged with kill or capture missions of high value targets. His experiences with violence have been tempered by his academic pursuits and interest in fields such as complexity science, and this eccentric background is probably what has led his friends to dub him the “Irish Cholo.”

    He is the owner of Black Mesa TFAC and has received professional trainer licensing and instructor certifications in CMD boxing, the CMD combat intelligent athlete program, EMP mental game performance coaching, and Red Zone Knife Defense, and was given permission to teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu by his coach and friend Gustavo De Alencar.

    He was the creator of the official threat assessment method used by CMD Intl. formerly known as TARMAC, and the gun disarm method used by Red Zone Threat Management Systems. He has developed custom courses for both civilian active shooter response, and active threat room entry techniques as an adjunct SME at Shockwave Defense, and teaches protection methods to members of the New Mexico Secret Service assigned to the Albuquerque field office. He is in the process of undergoing an additional certification in Risk Terrain Modeling, the latest environmental threat assessment program developed by criminologists for LEO and security departments.

    Nathan’s outlook and focus is best described as mastering one’s environment, and this theme forms the thrust of his vision at Borderland Training. The seriousness with which he approaches his material is matched only by his astoundingly effeminate taste in coffee, and penchant for wearing Star Wars shirts and flip flops while teaching. When not coaching or working on a new project, he trains, hunts, and spends an obscene amount of time getting really, really pissed off at his hetero-lifemate Rob.