The different ways to think through problems and new tactics learned from HRT will help the CWT improve their close quarters battle techniques. It gets your adrenaline pumping, and when you get shot, you feel it," Class of 2012 Cadet Eric Gallagher said. "The simunition training makes everything more realistic. The simunitions, essentially real rounds but instead of a bullet they have a non-lethal paint projectile, brought all the training together. Once the basics were in place, the team integrated in M4 and M9 weapons with simunition rounds. "Seeing the tactical situation from the opposing force's point of view really helped me improve how I attacked the problem as a good guy," Class of 2013 Cadet Kyle Forward said. This particular method of clearing rooms requires intense focus and awareness by all members of the team since the order of who enters each room in a house is rarely the same.Īs the training progressed, CWT members were used as both the friendly and opposing forces. Broken down into teams of five and 10 members, the CWT learned how to "flow" in and out of rooms like water. Several members of the HRT were on site at their shoot-house facility to offer training and instruction that focused on updating CWT's close quarters battle techniques with some of the most current techniques used in the field.įor two days, the team trained in a crawl, walk, run fashion. 26, 2011) - The West Point Combat Weapons Team recently visited the FBI Hostage Rescue Team's headquarters in Quantico, Va., to train on close quarters battle techniques. The West Point Combat Weapons Team recently visited the FBI Hostage Rescue Team's headquarters in Quantico, Va., to train on close quart. But the HRT’s motto, servare vitas (to save lives), still represents the team’s most important role.Class of 2011 Cadet Phil Hayward briefs his team on the plan for the next iteration in the shoot-house facility. Operators support high-risk arrests, dignitary protection, and war zone deployments to assist our military partners. Today, the HRT has a broad mission that goes well beyond hostage rescue. “That’s how the idea of a Hostage Rescue Team evolved,” he said. without presidential or legislative approval, so officials needed other tactical alternatives. By law, the military cannot operate within the U.S. “When Los Angeles won the nomination for the 1984 Olympics, the question was, ‘Who would handle an event such as Munich?’ And there weren’t a lot of good answers,” said FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce. That’s because preparations were underway for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and planners were keenly aware of the tragedy that occurred at the Munich Games in 1972, when terrorists shocked the world by taking 11 Israeli athletes hostage and later murdering them. had no civilian counterterrorism tactical team-and officials realized they needed one. In 1983, when the Hostage Rescue Team was formed, the U.S. Less than 300 FBI agents have served on HRT in its entire existence. overseas, as well as to exigent incidents within the United States. They're headquartered in Quantico, VA and deploy (OCONUS), i.e. HRT is just one part of the FBI's CIRG (Critical Incident Group), which also includes regional Bureau SWAT teams, crisis negotiation units and surveillance/intelligence/aviation support assets.
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