Tactical Options Vehicles Counter Ambush and Maneuvers Course is a 30-hour program designed to enhance a Law Enforcement Officer’s and/or tactical team on advanced critical counter threat engagement criteria and tactical skills. LEO’s throughout the USA are increasingly becoming exposed to unexpected threats with more deliberate deadly intents. The requirement to understand principles, fundamentals, and efficiency techniques in deadly street encounters are becoming an even more crucial capability for officers to train and prepare for. Not just as a readiness status, but execution to reduce threats in aggressive and accountable means to ensure survivability. Students will go through progressive and safe building stages that will increase knowledge and skills on every day readiness. Students will develop and execute capabilities to manipulate and engage targets in confined spaces of vehicles, perform various maneuvers on a series of threat contingencies, and know how to maximize usage of cover in immediate close deadly street encounters. Student’s will leave with enhanced vehicle / barricade knowledge on offensive and defensive tactics, situational assessment and execution, communication and counter-maneuver tactics with multiple officers. Skill sets and tactics will be validated through multiple safe live fire stages.

THIS 3-DAY AND COURSE PROGRAM OBJECTIVES INCLUDES:

Equipment vehicle set up, mission essential equipment sop development, and employment techniques. thoughts for everyday readiness
• Vehicle engagement methodologies and various counter-ambush tactics
• Weapon transition, magazine changes / tac-mag reloads weapon dynamic safe handling techniques
• Barricade / vehicle shooting positions and engagement methods: rollover prone, bend-over prone, kneeling, crouching, confined space fundamental application
• Care under fire (limited): individual / collective application, covering methods under stress while evacuating casualty, down officer response procedures
• Ballistic impacts on glass and vehicle body penetration familiarization: offensive vs defensive
• Situational assessment requiring immediate threat reductions methods on multiple high percentage and low percentage targets
• Vehicular engagement maneuvers and counter-engagement techniques
• Single, two-man, four-man maneuver drills, procedural flows, and live fires
• Weapons malfunctions drills, clearance procedures, and threat reduction follow-through
• Live fire counter ambush execution and clearing into the unknown: individual to team movement procedures, danger zone penetration condition set, split lane procedural flows, shoot / no-shoot identification, communication methods, low percentage engagements
• Deliberate and methodical vehicle / dead space clearance procedures vs hasty maneuvers: individual to multi-officer Night live fire: weapon tac-light manipulation and scanning methods, confined space threat engagement during low-light / no-light, buddy team live fire maneuvers during periods of darkness
Immediate action drills (IAD) individual / collective: multi-angle high percentage / low percentage shot placement, linear –360-degree vehicle IAD drills, communication pro word actions & execution methods
• Confined vehicle space, weapon manipulation and target engagement with both pistol and carbine
• Drills that designed to advance performance in body to cover manipulations, kit manipulation, problem solving target
engagement sequences, and stress performance exposures
• Focal cognitive drills, problem solving, assessment, and execution drills
• BearCat introduction and intergration for down officer rescue and utilizing armored vehicles during tactical maneuvers

REQUIRED EQUIPMENT:

• Duty carbine with sling and zeroed optic
• Duty Pistol with holster
• Clear ballistic wrap around eye protection (oakley m-frames or similar are most recommended)
• Hearing protection (electronic noise cancelling most recommended)
• Duty belt and / or tac-belt
• Carbine magazine chest rig, armor carrier (optional)
• Body armor / shooter kit / tac-vest with plates
• Ballistic helmet
• Pistol holster: drop leg, owb, or chest rig (must have retention system) (serpa holsters not allowed)
• Minimum 3 carbine and 3 pistol magazines
• Spare batteries on mounted optics for either or both pistol and carbine (recommend spare batteries are brought. none will be provided)
• Weapon lubricant and cleaning kit
• Folding or camping chair (optional)
• Water, snacks, and / or bag lunch
Note: Contact instructor on any questions you may have about additional items listed or not listed

Currently, Tactical Options website is down for maintance and cannot accept online registration. Please contact Jonas Polson at 719-393-5686 or info@tacticaloptionsllc.com for registration and billing options. Tactical Options will work with agencies who will require additional approval time for funds release, but can still attend this program.

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