OTHER SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES
Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC)
The U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) is the global special response team for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Its mission is to respond to terrorist threats of all types anywhere in the world in order to protect our nation's homeland. Its agents are counted among the ... FULL STORY
CIA Special Activities Division (SAD)
Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division of the Central Intelligence Agency's National Clandestine Service, responsible for covert action paramilitary operations, the collection of intelligence in hostile and/or denied areas and all high threat military and/or intelligence operations when the US government does not wish to be overtly associated with such activities. As such, members ... FULL STORY
FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)
The Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's Counter-Terrorism tactical unit. The Hostage Rescue Team was founded in 1982 in preparation for the Los Angeles Olympic Games, as a response to possible terrorist actions, such as occurred at the Munich Games. But the real cause for the unit's creation was for ... FULL STORY
USMS Special Operations Group (SOG)
The Special Operations Group (SOG) is a specially trained and highly disciplined tactical unit. It is a self-supporting response team capable of responding to emergencies anywhere in the United States or its territories. Most of the deputy marshals who have volunteered to be SOG members serve as full-time deputies in Marshals Service offices throughout the ... FULL STORY
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)
A SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team is an elite tactical unit in American and some international police departments. They are trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers, including serving high-risk arrest warrants, barricaded suspects, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, and engaging heavily-armed criminals. A SWAT team is often equipped ... FULL STORY
CA Fields AN/PRC-152
FORT BRAGG, NC – They may not be the best thing since sliced bread, but in the radio world of the foot Soldier, the Harris ... FULL STORY
