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Training for the Adversary
When you have opposing forces facing each other with weapons
and the intent to kill, it has all the elements of combat.
CSM Mel Wick
U.S. Army (Ret.)
The nature of protective operations most simply dened entails the
pickup of a protectee or principal from a location and the transport of
him or her to another location safely. This process is repeatedly conducted
around the world without incident every day. However, the threat that a
protective operation faces is one of the deadliest tactics in all of history,
the ambush. The training required for a protective team, beyond its most
basic movements to deal with such situations, is immediate-action drills
designed to reduce the response time, and thereby ...