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:
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.
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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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. |
