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The Special Forces approach to team building is unique. It has proved over many years to be the most effective means of challenging and developing key skills within individuals, with the maximum collaborative advantage for teams in high pressure situations.
Hostage Rescue is the ultimate expression of Special Forces teamwork. The possibility for a rescue team disaster is ever present, the confusion of smoke, explosions, tear gas and gunfire creating a highly volatile environment where ‘blue on blue’ incidents can happen all too easily. The training required to avoid such incidents and ensure success is complex and extensive.
Team Frontier has taken special forces hostage rescue training and adapted it for civilian team building purposes. The result is a totally involving and believable event that provides highly effective team building coupled with adrenalised action.
Programme features
The day starts by introducing the instructors, then teams are issued with their various weapons and don the authentic black assault kit which they wear throughout the day.
 On the ranges teams are first taught basic special forces weapons techniques. These include deliberate and instinctive shooting in semi-auto and auto modes with the Heckler & Kock MP5 sub-machine gun, the staple weapon of choice of most of the world’s rescue teams. Quick draw pistol work is also learned, so each team member can draw and fire this back up weapon in a fraction of a second should the MP5 fail (unlikely!)
Stairs and corridors procedures are taught, and then the basics of room combat. Eventually the four man teams will have learned to work together efficiently while engaging static targets, and then clearing a series of rooms and floor levels. It becomes immediately apparent that to perform these complex actions successfully at speed requires great teamwork.
The Mission
Ultimately the teams are tasked with sorting a ‘real’ hostage situation. A terrorist group has taken hostages, it’s holding them in a building and demands and threats are being made. Overseen and advised by the Team Frontier instructors the teams must formulate a plan for their rescue, then see it through to a successful conclusion. Helping them in this mission is a constant flow of ‘intelligence’; details of the building, the hostages, the terrorists, photographs, diagrams etc.
Once the plan is in place it’s time for the teams to go in – and this time they may encounter a little more resistance than static targets can offer!
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