Regional Training Opportunity:

Contact Steve Crawford at scrawford@bozeman.net for further info or registration information.

Tactical Operations in Rural Terrain

 August 20 - 24, 2007

Bozeman, Montana
 

Day 1

Team formations & communications. Open & confined areas.

Camouflage, cover & concealment. Use of terrain.

Personal equipment considerations.

Basic land navigation lecture & practical exercise.

Semi-tactical overnight stay.


Day 2

OP/LP hide operations & setup.

Observation & basic man tracking.

Immediate action drills. Team formations & movement.

Advanced land navigation exercise.

Tactical overnight stay. (Lowlight operations & observation)


Day 3

Close target reconnaissance. Tactical man tracking.

Escape & evasion techniques. Search & manhunt techniques.

Fugitive manhunt exercise.


Day 4

Check fire weapons.

Shooting at distance. (Familiarization)

Individual & small team live fire drills.


Day 5

Large team live fire contact drills.

Exercise Northern Fox. (Live fire suspect location takedown)

De-brief, awards & certificates!

This course is designed to train and/or refresh tactical operators who are tasked with operating in rural environments. The skills set is centered on, observing, gathering intelligence, planning and executing an assault on a high risk location in a rural environment.


Administration

You will need to provide for your own meals on this training program, bare in mind that you will spend 1 or 2 nights out in the field under tactical conditions. Suggestions for tactical camping gear and meal preparation will be provided in your course joining instructions.

You will need an SMG and/or Carbine that you use in your department. M16 or M4s are perfect. (No Shotguns) at least 2 x 30 round or 3 x 20 round magazines. Handgun are optional. Body armor, Eye & Ear Protection and a baseball/boonie cap or helmet.

Bring clothing suitable for hot, cold and rainy weather conditions. Boots with ankle support is also highly recommended as you will be operating in rough ground for most of the course.

Have 800 Long gun and 0 Handgun rounds.

A water proof map case and Note book are also an excellent idea.

5 day TORT course.

<August 20th 21st 22nd 23rd & 24th 2007>

Cost $550.00 per officer.


Course Instruction & Instructors

 We don't get too caught up in the instructor status thing. We do provide a short bio here so that you know who your instructors are.

As any skilled operator knows from experience, a course is only as good as its content and effective presentation to you the operator. We do spend hundreds of hours behind the scenes preparing and designing our courses so that we can give you realistic skills in the short time we have with you.

Some of you know us and your course comments have reflected our commitment to provide the best possible training we can in the time we have available to us.

NOTE: We specialize in 'Real World Operations', by this you should understand that we teach operators to work in the real world and not in general battlefield conditions. My own experience started in Northern Ireland in the early 80s where we worked in public to counter terrorists in support of the local police. Basically, I worked in Northern Ireland for two years in a high risk, full time SWAT team role.

Such things as, indiscriminate fire or clearing rooms with a machine gun or hand grenade are not and never have been acceptable. We have never worked that way and we don't teach that way. Our special operations experience is the same as the street environment with shoot and no shoot rules of engagement just like SWAT operators on the streets today.

We have spent time studying state and federal statutes so that we know exactly what conditions you operate under. We do not sit back on our laurels and pretend we know everything. We attend other courses around the country, spending hundreds of hours a year in training to keep our skills current, in order to bring that knowledge and experience to you on our programs.

The Lead Instructor for this program is:

Rob Sivill. A former British Army Soldier in the 80's, now he teaches a number of training courses to private corporations, law enforcement and the US military. Rob has thousands of hours of Tactical Operations experience in places such as Northern Ireland, The Middle East, Central America & Asia.

Other subject matter expert instructors and support staff are used as required and subject to availability.