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Immediate Response Team Course The “Immediate Reaction Team (IRT): A
New Paradigm in Personnel Recovery” will provide those who
are called to save one of your own, to do so rapidly,
effectively, and more safely. IRT was created to
decrease injury and mortality of tactical operators and
citizens through threat-specific methodology and
implementation of an advanced highly trained reaction team.
Successful officer rescue is dependant upon “thinking
outside the box,” and successfully executing preplanned
tactics. Proper rescue preplanning during the briefing
is the single most important component for a dynamic rescue.
Training and implementing alternative egresses (ladder
bailouts, 8mm rope-slides, ladder victim extraction) during
a call out must become second nature. If an operator
is to die, let it be from a tragedy, not a failure to plan.
Realizing that most
SWAT teams are inherently proactive teams, we feel we have
formulated a cutting edge training which will accomplish
many of our perceived rescue needs and goals. These
include:
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Creating cohesiveness in all
disciplines within the team
Ø Creating rescue plans, similar to “plays” on a football field
for the TL or Commander to call.
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Improved small element tactics for
cover fire, utilization of counter-sniper(s), and hands free
extraction drags.
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Mastery of aggressive new rescue
carries and drags enabling the elimination of “old school”
techniques that have been proven ineffective and outdated.
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Integration of specialty tool
applications providing immediate egress for patients or
entire team in today’s urban arena.
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Knowledge of various building
construction types and techniques for defeating walls,
reinforced doors, and roofs.
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Utilization of modern technology
(GPS) in conjunction with breaching to evacuate a critical
victim when the entry team is committed deep inside a
building.
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Instruction on new techniques for
self-aid and buddy-aid
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Incorporation of pseudo-entries
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Proper evaluation of threat
location, and determining and implementing alternate
egresses upon entry breach.
Realistic scenarios where there is a
definite threat, incorporating stress inoculation,
and conditioning the brain through stimulus-response to
achieve the desired reaction.
   
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