JSOTF: 05 November 2006

Olive Security Training Center - Explosive Entry Course

The Explosive Entry Course will highlight the tactical advantage of why your team should possess an explosive breaching capability. Operationally proven explosive breaching charges will be taught and performed repeatedly throughout the course.

Course content includes:
• Theory of explosive breaching
• Breaching report documentation
• Calculating net explosive weight
• Calculating safe stacking distance
• Calculating internal pressure
• Construction and firing of door,
window and internal wall charges
• Breaching barricaded doors
• Internal door charge breaching
• Tactical placement drills
• Tactical misfire drills
• Simultaneous entries
• Establishing an SOP
• Target analysis / intelligence gathering
• Breacher’s brief to entry team
• Establishing breacher’s data book
• Mechanical breaching
• Shotgun breaching
• Thermal / quick
• Quickee saw breaching

Tactical Services Group - Tactical Diver Training

The 5-Day Tactical Diver Course is modeled after the Marine Corps Combatant Diver Course. It was developed for military or law enforcement operators whose mission profile includes the need for tactical underwater operations. Note: Students must already possess and be able to prove attendance of a military or nationally recognized SCUBA certification course to attend this program. RESTRICTED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MILITARY ONLY. Content includes:

Water safety, survival, and drown-proofing
Dive team selection and development
Development of a tactical diving program
Pool Training
Inventory swim and SCUBA test (swimming pool)
"Turtle-back" techniques
Infiltration/exfiltration
Amphibious and beach landing site (BLS) reconnaissance
Equipment selection
Equipment waterproofing
Dive team tactics and use of a buddy line
Tactical communications
Marine hazards
Physical conditioning
SCUBA and LAR-V Rebreather applications
Maritime navigation and use of a tac-board compass
Run-swim-run physical training
Diver support operations and personnel

Kroll - Crucible Training

Kroll’s global presence and extensive security experience enable us to offer a complete range of specialized protective services and training developed and tested in some of the world’s most dangerous locations.

At Kroll, our security specialists provide sophisticated, discrete protection without interfering with clients’ professional or private lives.

We teach individuals how to avoid danger at home and abroad, and we sharpen the skills of security professionals. Training can take place at your site of operations or at the Crucible, Kroll’s 88-acre facility in Northern Virginia. This facility features multimedia classrooms, small arms ranges, defensive driving courses, and defensive tactics training areas.

The Crucible trains protective details assigned to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. State Department, and U.S. intelligence agencies, as well as local, state and federal law enforcement organizations

Training for Security Professionals
Protective detail training
Firearms training
Combative skills
Less lethal weapons instruction
Surveillance detection
Apprehension avoidance
Tactical driving
Certification

International School of Tactical Medicine

Do you have the skills and knowledge to perform safely in the sometimes unpredictable hostile tactical environment?

Is your agency providing you with state-of-the-art tactical medical training?

If you are ready to meet the challenge... Come and join us! Let us train and prepare you to be a safe and effective tactical medical provider.

Remember... Lives are at stake, maybe even your own.

Combat Medic Field Reference by Casey Bond

The ability to save lives in war, conflicts, and humanitarian interventions requires sophisticated skills above and beyond first aid. Today’s Combat Medic must be an expert in emergency care, force health protection, limited primary care, and warrior skills. The Combat Medic Field Reference provides easy access to essential information on triage, treatment, and US Army procedures. This handy pocket-sized reference features waterproof pages for making temporary or permanent notes.

Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent by H. John Poole

"Our missions in Iraq and Afghanistan are simple. But, is it possible to win on all fronts? . . . This book is a must read for anyone who has a stake in the newest war and for every American who wants to see our values upheld." - Leatherneck Magazine

"While many speak and write about war at the strategic level and focus on the plans of senior headquarters, John Poole instinctively knows that battles are won at the tactical level by the actions of junior leaders and small units. . . . 'Militant Tricks' helps those who fight, to fight better and to fight smarter." - Maj.Gen. John H. Admire USMC (Ret.), former commander of 1st Marine Division

"Militant Tricks is a worthy supplement to John Poole's previous, excellent books on the Eastern way of war." - William S. Lind, author of Maneuver Warfare Handbook

Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods by H. John Poole

Tactics of the Crescent Moon comes none too soon for deployed U.S. service personnel. Little, if any, of their battlefield intelligence has been tactically interpreted. U.S. analysts are generally more interested in the enemy’s technological capabilities. Even if those analysts did want to tactically assess their vast quantities of information, most lack the infantry and historical background to do so. This book fills the void. It reveals—for the first time in any detail—the most common small-unit maneuvers of the Iraqi and Afghan resistance fighters. Its author is a retired infantryman and recognized authority on guerrilla warfare. He has traveled the world extensively and still trains active-duty U.S. units.

Tactics of the Crescent Moon could save many lives (if not turn the tide) in the Middle East. It is a heavily researched, well-illustrated, and spell-binding account of how Muslim militants fight. While the book mainly delves into their tactical method, it also covers their cultural orientation.

Light Infantry Tactics: For Small Teams by Christopher E. Larsen

Finally! Step-by-step tactics for teams of three to 30 members.

Tired of collecting a library of military manuals just to teach light infantry patrolling tactics? Military manuals are notoriously confusing and boring! More often than not, they are written for company and battalion commanders. This book is written for truly small unit leaders – at the fireteam, squad, and platoon level.

This book includes several other advantages over military manuals:

Common sense explanations of each tactical battle drill.
Simple to understand schema and illustrations
‘Lessons Learned’ comments that offer experienced insight.
A glossary to get everyone speaking in the same terminology.

With a ‘no non-sense’ approach, every skill and tactical battle drill in this book is specifically focused on light infantry patrolling tactics. For the experienced military professional, this book will be valued reference. For every other small unit leader – whether military, modern military re-enactors, or paintball and air soft competitors this book is sure to become your ‘field bible’.

SCG International Risk - Training

SCG's training courses are realistic, dynamic, interactive and packed with relevant material to help you survive the encounter, win the fight and complete your mission.

Our customers include every branch of the Uniformed Services, federal agencies as well as state and local law enforcement teams across the country. Our mobile training team have traveled across the world providing excellent instruction. Let us show you what we can do for your group.

Our instructors are of the highest caliber who actually DO what they teach you how to DO. SCG has a standing rule that you cannot instruct unless you also serve in the Division of Security Operations. This keeps the training fresh since the instructor standing before the class was probably standing in Iraq or Afghanistan the week before

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Aegis - Baghdad Video

Blackwater USA

SECURITY OPPORTUNITIES

Blackwater is providing qualified and trained Protective Security Specialists (PSS) for the purpose of conducting protective security operations in Iraq.

These positions currently include:

Protective Security Specialist (PSS)
PSS/Designated Defensive Marksman (DDM)
Explosive Detection Dog (EDD)/Handler
Administrative and Logistics Security Specialist (ALSS)
Intelligence Analyst (IA)
Armorer
Maintenance Positions
Medical Officer
Physician Assistant
PSS/Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-I)

Triple Canopy

When hiring for operational positions, Triple Canopy sets the highest standards in the industry. New opportunities are frequently available and only the most qualified applicants are selected.

We require strong performance on the job, maturity, teamwork and a constant focus on safety and customer care. We provide outstanding training, excellent equipment, competitive pay and regular access to e-mail and telephones during deployments. Operational deployments normally range from 90-120 days and breaks are usually 30 days in duration.

MPRI

MPRI is looking for top talent in a variety of fields including defense, security services, military training and simulations, Homeland Security and law enforcement. We maintain a database of select former military (or military related), DOD civilians, Homeland Security and law enforcement professionals who would like to be considered for MPRI requirements.

An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair by Tim Spicer

Tim Spicer has always led an exciting and controversial life. Having won the Sword of Honour at Sandhurst he served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Germany, the Falklands and Bosnia. He rose steadily through the ranks to become one of Britain's leading battalion commanders. This military career provided him with the background and experience that later led him to set up Sandline International, one of the world's foremost private military companies, which he now heads - and to walk into some of the most controversial events of the decade.

The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security by Deborah D. Avant

The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers - including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.

• The first serious attempt to grapple with the difficult trade-offs involved in controlling private security in the global market
• Suggests a new way to think about the control of force that makes a significant contribution to civil-military relations
• Offers an institutional model that bridges the 'rationalist/constructivist' divide

Making a Killing by Madelaine Drohan

What happens when multinational corporations decide that the use of armed force is just business by another means? In Making a Killing, Madelaine Drohan looks at the shocking number of companies that have linked up with mercenaries, warlords, armies, and private militias in order to make a profit. In a world where multinationals often rival national governments in size and clout, the implications of such partnerships are ominous. What leads respectable corporations down the path to violence? Drohan answers this question by examining the actions of several companies operating in Africa, such as Ranger Oil West Africa, which used the mercenary group Executive Outcomes to take on rebels in Angola’s long-running civil war; and Talisman Energy, whose security was provided by Sudanese army units conducting a scorched-earth policy in the oil fields.
Drohan traces the modern roots of corporate armed force, beginning with Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company, which at the turn of the twentieth century built its own army. Also included is the stranger-than-fiction tale of ex-MI5 spymaster Sir Percy Sillitoe, who was hired by the De Beers diamond king to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring smuggled diamonds in order to develop the hydrogen bomb. These accounts read like adventure stories in the tradition of Rudyard Kipling and Ian Fleming, but they are essential reading for anyone interested in the effects of unfettered multinational influence. Making a Killing provides a road map for corporations, policy makers, and investors struggling to come to terms with their roles in today’s increasingly globalized world.

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry by P.W. Singer

Cowinner of the 2004 Gladys M. Kammerer Award given by the American Political Science Association

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Finalist for the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize given by the Munk Centre for International Studies and Foreign Policy Magazine

Some have claimed that “War is too important to be left to the generals,” but P. W. Singer asks “What about the business executives?” Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals.

This new “Privatized Military Industry” encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored.

In this book, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering.

The privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the entrance of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises a series of troubling questions—for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.

WAR DOG: Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat by Al Venter

Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization, yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today’s freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter world of mercenary fighters effecting decisions by themselves. In the process he unveils a remarkable array of close-quarters combat action.

Having personally visited every locale he describes throughout Africa and the Middle East, Venter is the rare correspondent who had to carry an AK-47 in his research along with his notebook and camera. To him, covering mercenary actions meant accompanying the men into the thick of combat. During Sierra Leone’s civil war, he flew in the front bubble of the government’s lone Hind gunship—piloted by the heroic chopper ace “Nellis”—as it flew daily missions to blast apart rebel positions. In this book the author not only describes the battles of the legendary South African mercenary company Executive Outcomes, he knew the founders personally and joined them on a number of actions. After stemming the tide of Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA army in Angola (an outfit many of the SA operators had previously trained), Executive Outcomes headed north to hold back vicious rebels in West Africa.

This book is not only about triumph against adversity but also losses, as Venter relates the death and subsequent cannibalistic fate of his American friend, Bob MacKenzie, in Sierra Leone. Here we see the plight of thousands of civilians fleeing from homicidal jungle warriors, as well as the professionalism of the mercenaries who fought back with one hand and attempted to train government troops with the other, in hopes that they would someday be able to stand on their own.

The American public, as well as its military, largely sidestepped the horrific conflicts that embroiled Africa during the past two decades. But as Venter informs us, there were indeed small numbers of professional fighters on the ground, defending civilians and attempting to conjure order from chaos. In the process their heroism went unrecorded and their combat skill became known only to each other.

In this book we gain an intimate glimpse of this modern breed of warrior in combat. Not laden with medals, ribbons, civic parades, or even guaranteed income, they have nevertheless fought some of the toughest battles in the post- Cold War era. They simply are, and perhaps always will be, “War Dogs.”

AL J. VENTER has been an international war correspondent for nearly thirty years, primarily for the Jane’s Information Group. He has also produced documentary television films on subjects from the wars in Africa and Afghanistan to sharkhunting off the Cape of Good Hope. Among his previous works are The Iraqi War Debrief: Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled and Iran’s Nuclear Option: Tehran’s Quest for the Atomic Bomb. A native of South Africa, he is currently resident in the United Kingdom.

A Bloody Business: America's War Zone Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq by Gerry Schumacher

As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,000 today) who guard supply convoys, train foreign soldiers, provide security for foreign leaders and dignitaries—and whose workplaces are the most dangerous hot spots on the planet. With its insights into who these men are, what drives them, where they come from, how they prepare, and what they do, this book provides a uniquely close-up and complete picture of the private army behind America’s military muscle.

The author interviewed security contractors and their families, high-ranking coalition officials, and was in Iraq, where he witnessed how private soldiers fought ambushes, trained Iraqi forces, escorted high-level officials in dangerous conditions, and saw the contractor side of the Iraq war.

ComeBackAlive.Com

ComeBackAlive.com is the official website of Robert Young Pelton, a Canadian adventurer, journalist, and former strategic planner. He publishes a regularly updated guide, The World's Most Dangerous Places, which provides practical and survival information for professionals, adventurers, travelers and those who work and travel in high risk zones.

Shadow Company by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque

This year thousands of private soldiers will be deployed in conflicts worldwide. These individuals, known as private security contractors, are changing the face of modern warfare. But to those at home, their world and influence remains a mystery.

Who are these security contractors?
What do they do?
Why do they do it?

Shadow Company, by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque, is the groundbreaking feature-length documentary that reveals the origins and destinations of these modern-day mercenaries.

In the late 20th Century the distinction between soldier and mercenary became blurred. The recent use of private military companies (PMC) in Iraq has been more extensive (and more high profile) than at any time in modern history. The issues raised by the brutal killing of four PMC staff in Fallujah in April 2004 and the subsequent reaction of the general public and the US Army make it clear that these “contractors” are not merely workers in a foreign land. James Ashcroft, a 28 year-old employee of a large PMC currently under contract in Iraq, is our guide to this world. James’s job differs little from his colleagues in the Coalition Forces -- there are many similarities in loyalty, honor, code of ethics, chain of command and opera- tional conduct—but James’s salary, for one thing, tops that of a US soldier three times over. Through letters, photos and personal video, James provides an intimate introduction into his life as a modern day “soldier for hire”.

To counterpoint James’ personal views – directors Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque traveled the globe, interviewing PMC staff, owners and lobbyists, former mercenaries, academics, jour- nalists and top authors. They complimented these interviews with pop culture representations of mercenaries culled from TV shows, video games and, of course, action adventure films. As a result, Shadow Company contextualizes, at both a personal and a global level, the role of private soldiers and PMCs in modern day conflicts. The film explores the moral and ethical is- sues “private military” solutions create for Western governments and the United Nations and addresses the risks of allowing profit-motivated corporations into the business of war.

Interviewees include:

Alan Bell, president of Globe Risk Holdings and a global authority on security related matters
Phil Lancaster, ex-Canadian Army and a UN forces leader in Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Afghanistan
Cobus Claassens, a veteran of the South African military and current Security Contractor
Peter Singer of the Brookings Institute, author of Corporate Warriors
Madelaine Drohan, author of Making a Killing – How and Why Corporations use Armed Force to do Business
Robert Young Pelton, author of World’s Most Dangerous Places, adventurer and acquaintance of many a miscreant/warlord/mercenary.

Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton

Robert Young Pelton first became aware of the phenomenon of hired guns in the War on Terror when he met a covert team of contractors on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in the fall of 2003. Pelton soon embarked on a globe-spanning odyssey to penetrate and understand this shadowy world, ultimately delivering stunning insights into the way private soldiers are used.
Enter a blood-soaked world of South African mercenaries and tribal fighters backed by ruthless financiers. Drop into Baghdad’s Green Zone, strap on body armor, and take a daily high-speed ride with a doomed crew of security contractors who dodge car bombs and snipers just to get their charges to the airport. Share a drink in a chic hotel bar with wealthy owners of private armies who debate the best way to stay alive in war zones.

Licensed to Kill spans four continents and three years, taking us inside the CIA’s dirty wars; the brutal contractor murders in Fallujah and the Alamo-like sieges in Najaf and Al Kut; the Deep South contractor training camps where ex–Special Operations soldiers and even small town cops learn the ropes; the contractor conventions where macho attendees swap bullet-punctuated tales and discuss upcoming gigs; and the grim Central African prison where contractors turned failed mercenaries pay a steep price.

The United States has encouraged the use of the private sector in all facets of the War on Terror, placing contractors outside the bounds of functional legal constraints. With the shocking clarity that can come only from firsthand observation, Licensed to Kill painstakingly deconstructs the most controversial events and introduces the pivotal players. Most disturbingly, it shows that there are indeed thousands of contractors—with hundreds more being produced every month—who’ve been given a license to kill, their services available to the highest bidder.