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SWAT Team Leader Course

$0.00

Course Length: 3 Days

Delivery Format: Classroom instruction + hands-on field training

Target Audience: Current, future, and developing team leaders in SWAT teams and other tactical or specialty units seeking to elevate their leadership and operational readiness.

Course Overview:
Designed for current, experienced, and aspiring SWAT and specialty unit team leaders, the SWAT Team Leader Course is an intensive 3-day course focused on developing and sharpening the critical leadership skills required in high-risk operational environments.

Participants will engage in realistic decision-making exercises, mission planning scenarios, and in-gear tactical training to enhance operational effectiveness and leadership under pressure.  The course also covers essential topics such as risk mitigation, legal liability, selection and testing, and contemporary training strategies to help team leaders operate with confidence, clarity and accountability.

Through a blend of classroom instruction and hands-on exercises, attendees will leave with practical tools to better lead, train and manage tactical teams in today’s complex threat landscape.

Course Length: 3 Days

Delivery Format: Classroom instruction + hands-on field training

Target Audience: Current, future, and developing team leaders in SWAT teams and other tactical or specialty units seeking to elevate their leadership and operational readiness.

Course Overview:
Designed for current, experienced, and aspiring SWAT and specialty unit team leaders, the SWAT Team Leader Course is an intensive 3-day course focused on developing and sharpening the critical leadership skills required in high-risk operational environments.

Participants will engage in realistic decision-making exercises, mission planning scenarios, and in-gear tactical training to enhance operational effectiveness and leadership under pressure.  The course also covers essential topics such as risk mitigation, legal liability, selection and testing, and contemporary training strategies to help team leaders operate with confidence, clarity and accountability.

Through a blend of classroom instruction and hands-on exercises, attendees will leave with practical tools to better lead, train and manage tactical teams in today’s complex threat landscape.

Key Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Tactical Medic roles / integration / Equipment

• Medical Mission Planning

• Apply Care Under Fire, Tactical Field Care, and Tactical Evacuation Care principles.

• Tactical Movement and Positioning

• Triage / Common Injuries / Wounds

• Manage airway compromise and respiratory injuries in challenging conditions.

• Recognize and treat shock, hypothermia, and other preventable causes of death.

• Perform patient packaging and rapid casualty evacuation.

• Operate effectively as part of a tactical team while providing medical support.

• Communicate and coordinate with command, EMS, and other response elements.

• Building Training Calendar

• Casualty Collection Points / Mass Casualty Events

• Legal Considerations / Medical Oversight

• K-9 medical Overview

Training Methodology:

• Classroom modules on tactical medicine principles, protocols, and equipment.

• Hands-on skill stations for bleeding control, airway management, and casualty movement.

• Live-fire or simulation scenarios (depending on jurisdiction and safety policy).

• Stress inoculation drills to build decision-making and performance under pressure.

Certification:

Participants receive a Tactical Medicine Certificate of Completion

Prerequisites:

• Basic medical training (First Aid, EMT, or equivalent) recommended.

• Law enforcement, or military background preferred but not mandatory for certain versions of the course.