Host Your Own Tactical Training Course
TEES is offering free training for teams who host an open enrollment course. Hosting a course is an economical option to receive training as you save on travel and accommodation expenses. We will come to you!
- 10 paying students - 2 free slots
- 20 paying students - 4 free slots
The host agency will be required to provide certain items of equipment in order to support the course. When hosting an open enrollment course, the host agency is to assist in promotion of the course. TEES will handle all course registrations.
- Cost: Open enrollment - $990.00 per person. Team prices will be discussed on request. Cost includes instructor(s) travel / accommodation
- Students: 8 min - 15 max
- Restrictions: Law Enforcement, Military or Government Agencies
The aim of this 5 day course is to pass on the skills necessary to plan and execute a mission in order to protect a dignitary, prisoner or witness who may have a threat against themselves or the entity they represent.
This program will be geared towards operations in a permissive environment and the students will be required to put in long hours in order to plan, prepare and successfully complete a challenging final exercise.
Course content includes:
- Introduction to terrorism
- Selection of dignitary protection personnel
- Essential equipment
- Organization of a dignitary protection team
- Dignitary protection security survey
- Interviewing the Principal
- Foot formations
- Defensive tactics
- Attacks on the Principal
- Route survey and security selection
- Venue advance survey
- Vehicle arrival and departure drills
- Vehicle motorcade drills
- Dignitary protection operation orders
- Explosive / IED awareness
- Building explosive searches
- Bomb threat procedures
- Vehicle counter ambush drills
- Residential security
- Establishing a standard operating procedure
- Final exercise
Facilities Needed
- Classroom with PPT / flip charts
- Range with paper targets
- Open area to conduct foot escort drills
- Parking lot or open area to conduct vehicle arrival / departure drills
- Venues for FTX (restaurant, gymnasium, museum, office, hotel, etc)
- Salvaged SUV's / sedans for counter ambush drills x 2
Instructors
TEES dignitary protection instructors are highly qualified professionals. They have been drawn from either law enforcement, corporate or military backgrounds and have conducted operations both in the United States and abroad.
- Cost: Team prices will be discussed on request (cost includes instructor(s) travel / accommodation
- Students: 8 min - 24 max
- Restrictions: Law Enforcement, Military
Course content includes:
- Tactical shooting (handgun / carbine)
- Close quarter battle (live fire)
- Methods of entry (breaching techniques)
- Hallway clearance drills
- Negotiating stairwells
- Deployment of distraction devices
- Use of shields
- Foot / vehicle approaches
- Radio commands
- Operational orders
- Deliberate and emergency assaults
- Bus and vehicle assaults
- Off site training scenarios
Facilities Needed
- Classroom with PPT
- Range with paper targets
- Area to lay out rooms for CQB (crime scene tape)
- Live fire shoot house (not mandatory)
- Full size bus for dry training drills
- School or commercial building for hallways clearance drills
- Off site venue(s) to support CQB training (houses / apartments / commercial buildings)
Instructors
TEES Hostage Rescue instructors are highly qualified professionals. They have many years of experience as law enforcement special operators and the techniques taught are up to date based on current operational tempo.
- Duration: 5 - 6 days
- Cost: Open enrollment - $1300.00 - $1400.00 per person
- Students: 24 max
- Restrictions: Law Enforcement, Military or Government Agencies
Phase One - Explosive Handlers Course
The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the recognition, transportation, storage, safe handling, and firing of high explosive compounds. This phase is mandatory for all personnel who are not EOD or military demolition qualified.
On successful completion of this course, the student will possess the skills to safely employ demolitions in a conventional environment.
Course content includes:
- History and theory of explosives and explosions
- Demolition safety
- Types of demolition accessories
- Recognition of low and high explosive compounds
- Preparation and firing of charges using electric, non-electric, and shock tube initiated blasting caps
- Response to misfires and low ordered charges
Phase Two - Explosive Breaching Course
The aim of this course is to introduce the student to time tested and operationally proven drills and procedures in order to establish or further enhance an existing explosive breaching program within their unit or department.
On successful completion of this course, the student will possess the necessary skills to safely and confidently employ explosive breaching charges in support of special operations missions.
Course content includes:
- History and theory of explosive breaching
- Critical safety issues - calculating net explosive weight, safe stacking distance, and internal overpressure
- Breaching report documentation
- Breaching wood and metal doors (external and internal)
- Breaching windows
- Defeating barricaded doors
- Tactical charge placement drills
- Reacting to a misfired charge
- Multiple breach point entries
- Developing Standard Operating Procedures
- Stronghold analysis
- Breacher's brief back format
- Breacher's aide memoir
- Introduction to wall breaching
- Scenario based training / night training (x2)
Facilities Needed:
- Wall facade with a minimum of 4 x 36" doorways
- Shoot house for internal door charge breaching (not mandatory)
- Solid wood doors any size x 24
- 36" light weight class one metal doors x 12
- Drywall sheets 4' x 8' x 4
Host Agency Provides:
- Charge construction area (overhead protection)
- Classroom (preferably on range) with powerpoint projector
- Range with at least 60 yards minimum safe distance for handlers module (days 1-2)
- Blue Board Styrofoam (wall insulation) 4' x 8' x 3/4" (1 sheet)
- Industrial hinges x 12
- Work tables x 6
- 115 volt power and extension cord to run router and saw
- Water cooler
- Trash bins x 2
- 4 door knobs / 4 dead bolts
- 1" x 2" x 8' wood strips x 8 / 2" x 2" x 8' wood strips x 8
- 2" x 4" x 8' wood studs x 4
- Duct tape rolls x 12 / electric tape rolls x 12
- Double stick outdoor carpet tape 2" wide x 8 rolls
- Straight edge yard sticks x 4
- Blast protection shields / blankets x 2
- 1000 mil IV bags x 24
- Medical kit
- Fire extinguisher
- Range workers x 2
* Subject to change, based on number of students
- Duration: 3 days
- Cost: Open enrollment - $950.00 per person
- Students: 24 max (10 paying students, 2 free slots - 20 paying students, 4 free slots)
- Restrictions: Law Enforcement, Military or Government Agencies
The aim of this 3 day course is to enhance the skills of an existing breacher by introducing him to more advanced skills associated with hard target breaching.
The host agency must provide a commercial structure such as a school, hospital, or apartment complex that has sufficient wood / metal doors, walls and other targets to facilitate the course objectives.
On successful completion of this course, the student will possess the necessary skills in order to perform more advanced breaching tactics associated with doors, window, roofs, floors, and walls.
Some subjects included in the Advanced Course:
- Review theory of explosive breaching
- Breaching report documentation using the Excel spread sheet
- Review of calculating net explosive weight, safe stacking distance, and internal overpressure
- Breaching both wood and metal doors (external and internal)
- Conducting blast pressure tests inside of buildings using the Anderson Blast Gauge
- Alternate breach points such as windows and walls
- Cover port charges with simultaneous entries
- Defeating barricaded doors
- Multiple breach point entries
- Target analysis and intelligence gathering
Host Agency Provides:
- Classroom with powerpoint projector
- Cordless drill with spare battery
- Blue Board Styrofoam (wall insulation) 4' x 8' x 3/4" (3 sheets)
- 209 shotgun primers x 100
- Work tables x 4
- 115 volt power and extension cord to run router and saw
- Water cooler
- Trash bins x 2
- Firehose (weavetype, 3-5" wide x 200 ft)
- Wood screws 3" x 50
- 1" x 2" x 8' wood strips x 10
- 2" x 2" x 8' wood strips x 20
- 2" x 4" x 8' wood studs x 6
- 3/4" plywood x 2 sheets
- Duct tape rolls x 10 / electric tape rolls x 15
- Double stick outdoor carpet tape 2" wide x 6 rolls
- Straight edge yard sticks x 4
- Blast protection shields / body bunkers x 2ea
- 1000 mil IV bags x 36
* Subject to change, based on number of students
