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This
is NOT a "Driving Course!" It
is a TACTICAL
SURVIVAL COURSE
This
Intense 6 Day Course Focuses on... What Can the
Operator Do Under Stress in a Highly
Fluid and Dangerous Environment.
The
Training Explores the Psychological
and Physiological Aspects of Violent Close Quarters
Combat. The Point is to Lessen
Hesitation at the Moment of Initial Contact
and to Fight in a Way to Keep the Most Options
Open.
All
of the Avoidance Tactics and Countermeasures Taught
Assume the Worst Case Scenario Where,
if Attacked :
The Operators are Working in Alone or in Small
Groups of 2 or 3
There is Very Little Chance of Immediate Assistance
The Operator has No Firearm or a Handgun with
Limited Ammunition
There is a High Probability that 1 or More Operators
Will be Wounded
Gryphon
Group has a long history of providing force protection
training and mission specific skill development
to special operation units and federal agencies.
Gryphon's
Mobile Force Protection Course has been approved
by the U.S. General Services Administration under
SIN #426-4F, GSA Contract #GS-07F-0377N.
This
course addresses the full spectrum of force protection
training...From threat awareness and avoidance
to battle-proven tactical countermeasures.
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Some
of the main topics covered are:
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Counter
Ambush Tactics:
During the Military Mobile Force Protection Course,
each student will learn how to recognize and counter
some typical ambush scenarios (Traditional, Snap,
IVCP). The student will be put into one ambush
after another, transitioning from life or death
situations until the driver is prepared for any
potential attack. After exhausting ALL efforts
to avoid or elude an attack, EACH STUDENT
WILL END THE TACTICAL SCENARIO RUNS WITH A "BREAK
CONTACT IAD", DURING WHICH, THE TEAM WILL
EVACUATE THE VEHICLE AND RETURN FIRE WITH HIGH
PERFORMANCE PAINTMARKER RIFLES WHILE RELAYING
TO A SAFE AREA.
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Counter
Force-Off Tactics:
How to prevent an attacker
from running your vehicle off the road. This
is best done by RUNNING YOU OFF THE ROAD! Each
student will drive and ride in a vehicle while
it is being forced off the road by another vehicle
and will learn to counter it and maintain control.
Each student will be spun out of control on the
track and will learn how to regain control and
drive away unharmed.
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Ramming Techniques:
A common tactic of assassins and kidnappers is
to block the road with an illegal checkpoint or
roadblock. In this course, each student actually
encounters roadblock scenarios and utilizes
Ramming Techniques to overcome them.
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Route Planning:
Determining the fastest, safest, and most dependable
routes to and from the scheduled sites during
the visit is the first step in deciding what type
of transportation is the most appropriate for
the threat environment. Items include alternate
routes, choke points, danger areas, safe
houses, emergency services, planned construction,
expected traffic patterns, etc.
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Surveillance Detection:
Proactive Awareness is more effective than Crisis
Management. Every Paramilitary, Criminal, and
Terrorist Attack (Amateur OR Professional) Begins
With ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE OF THE TARGET!!
One of the primary goals in Force Protection is
to avoid potential deadly threats
by awareness and forward thinking. Terrorists
and criminals conduct surveillance in order to
gather information to plan an attack. Gryphon
Group encourages U.S. personnel to make surveillance
detection a part of their daily operations and
lifestyle. Then, they can detect that they are
being watched and stop the terrorist planning
process at the earliest stages.
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Convoy
Security and Counter Ambush Drills:
These drills will involve a 4-vehicle tandem movement
during which the convoy will be ambushed with high-performance
paintmarker rifles. One of the vehicles will be disabled
during the attack. The students must return fire and
transfer the other students from the disabled vehicle
along with a 180 lb. wounded teammate training dummy.
  
Dead
Man Takeover Exercises:
In the worst of all situations, this set of exercises
teaches you how to regain control of the vehicle and
continue to evade when, as a passenger, the driver
has been killed or incapacitated.
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Oleoresin
Capsicum Spray:
These new generation OC
sprays have "wide mouth" actuator tops
to prevent accidental or backwards spraying and
contain 2% 5,300,000 (Scovile Heat Units) Oleoresin
Capsicum (OC). These are the hottest sprays
in the world! They have the most effective
spray pattern, which is the medium fog, forced-cone
dispersal pattern. These units do not require
pinpoint accuracy and do not disperse all contents
as quickly as the stream units. They also contain
UV dye for later identification of suspects. During
the Military Non-Lethal Options Course, each student
will fire a variety of concealed OC devices, large
capacity OC units for deployment from a vehicle,
and OC grenades. Each operator will also
feel the effects of an OC area dispersal device.
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Advanced M-26 Taser:
Unparalleled stopping power.
The Advanced M-26 Taser is effective because it
overrides the nervous system of the human body.
The human nervous system communicates by transmitting
simple electrical impulses.
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A
nerve sends a message much like an electric telegraph
with a series of electrical blips. To disrupt
them, the Advanced M-26 Taser sends a series of
discrete electrical impulses (called T-Waves),
quite similar to those used by the human body
for communication. Therefore, the Taser works
not by pain inducement but by causing temporary
paralysis. Each operator will fire a new class
of Electro-Muscular Disruption Weapon (EMD), the
Advanced M-26 Taser. Effective out to 21 feet,
this device has a devastating and immediate effect
on its target. Each student will also have an
opportunity to experience this effect.
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Vehicle and Firearm Tactics:
SOME
THINGS CANNOT BE SIMULATED!! Each operator
will experience a very realistic live-fire exercise
in which each student engages targets from inside
a closed vehicle; forcing them in extremes to
fire through the front windshield, back glass,
side windows, static and moving. The course stresses
terminal ballistics involved in this environment,
the effects of overpressure in a confined space
on an operator, noise hazard, spalling, and instability
within an evading vehicle.
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Terminal
Ballistics Involved in Vehicle Attacks:
What happens to a bullet and the windshield, back
glass, and side windows when an operator must
shoot through it to survive a surprise attack?
Each student will examine the physical affects
that occur when firing bullets through the skin
and glass of a vehicle.
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Field
Expedient Bulletproofing:
In today’s area of operations, there are
many times when prefabricated armor is not available
to improve the survivability an operator’s
vehicle. The course will examine and each operator
will live-fire test a variety of field expedient
bulletproofing; such as wet sandbags, taped phonebooks,
compacted newspaper etc.
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Using
a Vehicle for Cover:
Operators will learn the areas on a variety of
vehicles that can be used to protect them from
enemy fire and conduct drills dismounting and
live firing from these points. Each operator will
also utilize these cover points while conducting
IADs utilizing high performance marker rounds
in a force-on-force scenario.
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Static Vehicle Counter Ambush Drills:
If
an operator’s vehicle is under fire from
close range and becomes disabled and static, an
immediate violent response is one’s only
chance at surviving. Each operator will practice
seated fire techniques, weapon manipulation methods,
and live-fire exercises from each shooting position
within a closed vehicle.
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emphasis is on replicating real-world threat environments
while maintaining a safe training environment. This
is high-risk training and entails close proximity
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Moving
Vehicle Counter Ambush Drills:
As recent reports indicate, Al Qaeda terrorist
cell training manuals emphasize attacking moving
vehicles. Each operator will conduct live-fire
drills from a closed moving vehicle to repel a
determined assault from multiple targets. Some
things cannot be simulated and this scenario is
one of them. Each student will experience the
overpressures, noise, flying glass, hot brass,
and constant instability of firing from inside
a closed evading vehicle.
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Force-on-Force
Counter Ambush Tactics:
During
the Counter-Ambush Vehicle and Firearm Tactics
Course each operator will learn how to recognize
and counter some typical ambush scenarios (Traditional,
Snap, IVCP) the student will be put into one ambush
after another. In the worst of all situations,
this set of exercises teaches you how to regain
control of the vehicle and continue to evade when,
as a passenger, the driver has been killed or
incapacitated. The other passengers will then
return fire on the attacking vehicle using high
performance marker rounds.
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Identify
Individual Protective Measures (IPM):
Used in preventing or deterring terrorist attacks,
these IPMs will help individuals and units deploying
outside continental United States (OCONUS) to
minimize their vulnerability to a terrorist attack.
Such as the measures to take to determine the
threat in any given area; how terrorists identify
their victims; terrorist target selection considerations;
the measures to be taken for protection while
in a travel status (whether using public or private
transportation); the measures to be taken when
traveling as a pedestrian; the protective measures
to be used while traveling by automobile; the
protective measures to be taken when traveling
by air; the precautions for hotel residence security;
measures to be taken in residential protection;
countermeasures to be used to protect the office
from terrorist attacks, to include postal bomb
recognition; and, of course, the measures to be
used when performing a car bomb search.
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The feedback from the hundreds and hundreds of Special
Operations personnel and federal agencies that have passed
through Gryphon's force protection training and mission
specific skill development courses tell us that it is:
- EFFECTIVE
in increasing the "Real" capabilities of
the personnel who attend regardless of their experience
level by drawing out survival instincts and training
gross motor skills;
- RESPONSIVE
each unit and commander's vision of the training needed
for their specific mission and area of operations;
- REALISTIC
in the tactics taught and the environment in which
the operators are working;
- SAFE
even though the emphasis is on realism, no student
has ever been injured and very little equipment has
been damaged;
- CONSISTENT
in the professionalism and positive attitude from
each and every instructor-each and every time.
- SYNERGISTIC
by bringing together the latest technologies and training
techniques from the Law Enforcement Community, the
Executive Protection Field, the Corporate Security
Sector, and the Special Operations Community;
- CONVENIENT
because Gryphon will bring this training to the unit's
base or forward deployed personnel anywhere, in any
climate, or conduct it at our headquarters in Melbourne,
Florida;
- AFFORDABLE
because
the pricing is flexible and set with the goal of establishing
long term contracts with each unit or agency. Gryphon
Group has been approved by the U.S. General Services
Administration to provide Mobile Force Protection
Training to military units and federal agencies under
Sin
#426-1F Contract
#GS-07F-0377N.
Call
Today to Reserve a Class Date. Contact
Michael
K. Vaden, CEO/President, at
321-242-9131 for more information.
The length of the Melbourne iterations are usually 3
to 6 days, depending on the number of troops and what
they want incorporated. Or, Gryphon's Mobile Training
Teams will bring this training to your unit anywhere
in the world for a case-by-case price.
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Military
Mobile Force Protection
