Tactical Mission Planning and Scouting Course

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Course Length: 2-4 days (customizable)

Delivery Format: Classroom instruction + field-based exercises

Target Audience: This course focuses on pre-operational planning, scouting techniques, and real-time adaptability—critical capabilities for small-unit leaders, team operators, and support personnel in high-threat or time-sensitive missions.

Certification:
Successful participants receive a
Tactical Mission Planning and Scouting Certificate of Completion.

Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with small-unit tactics is recommended.

  • Law enforcement, security, or military experience preferred.

Course Overview:
The Tactical Mission Planning and Scouting Course equips participants with the skills and methodologies needed to successfully plan, coordinate, and execute tactical operations in complex and dynamic environments. Through a blend of operational theory, intelligence integration, and practical fieldwork, students learn how to develop actionable plans, conduct effective reconnaissance, and reduce mission risk through thorough preparation.

Emphasis on High-Risk warrant service, High-Risk arrests to include vehicle suppression or open-air techniques, and large venue events will be covered.

Key Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Prepare and brief pre-planned missions utilizing SMEACCC (Situation, Mission, Execution, Administration, Command, Channel, Control)

  • Conduct mission analysis using the METT-TC (Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops, Time, and Civil Considerations) framework.

  • Develop concepts of operation (CONOPS), contingency plans, and decision points.

  • Integrate intelligence, reconnaissance data, and environmental assessments into operational planning.

  • Perform covert and overt scouting to gather actionable information.

  • Use maps, imagery, and digital tools for route planning, target study, and risk analysis.

  • Establish infiltration and exfiltration strategies based on terrain and threat conditions.

  • Communicate effectively within the planning cell and during mission execution.

  • Develop techniques for time-sensitive mission planning.

  • Establish briefing philosophies and strategies with consistency to ensure the transfer of information and mission understanding. 

Training Methodology:

  • Classroom modules on mission planning principles, scouting tradecraft, and operational security.

  • Case study reviews of real-world tactical operations and lessons learned.

  • Practical field exercises simulating reconnaissance, route planning, and observation.

  • Team planning sessions with role assignments, decision-making drills, table-top exercises, and after-action reviews.

Course Length: 2-4 days (customizable)

Delivery Format: Classroom instruction + field-based exercises

Target Audience: This course focuses on pre-operational planning, scouting techniques, and real-time adaptability—critical capabilities for small-unit leaders, team operators, and support personnel in high-threat or time-sensitive missions.

Certification:
Successful participants receive a
Tactical Mission Planning and Scouting Certificate of Completion.

Prerequisites:

  • Familiarity with small-unit tactics is recommended.

  • Law enforcement, security, or military experience preferred.

Course Overview:
The Tactical Mission Planning and Scouting Course equips participants with the skills and methodologies needed to successfully plan, coordinate, and execute tactical operations in complex and dynamic environments. Through a blend of operational theory, intelligence integration, and practical fieldwork, students learn how to develop actionable plans, conduct effective reconnaissance, and reduce mission risk through thorough preparation.

Emphasis on High-Risk warrant service, High-Risk arrests to include vehicle suppression or open-air techniques, and large venue events will be covered.

Key Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Prepare and brief pre-planned missions utilizing SMEACCC (Situation, Mission, Execution, Administration, Command, Channel, Control)

  • Conduct mission analysis using the METT-TC (Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops, Time, and Civil Considerations) framework.

  • Develop concepts of operation (CONOPS), contingency plans, and decision points.

  • Integrate intelligence, reconnaissance data, and environmental assessments into operational planning.

  • Perform covert and overt scouting to gather actionable information.

  • Use maps, imagery, and digital tools for route planning, target study, and risk analysis.

  • Establish infiltration and exfiltration strategies based on terrain and threat conditions.

  • Communicate effectively within the planning cell and during mission execution.

  • Develop techniques for time-sensitive mission planning.

  • Establish briefing philosophies and strategies with consistency to ensure the transfer of information and mission understanding. 

Training Methodology:

  • Classroom modules on mission planning principles, scouting tradecraft, and operational security.

  • Case study reviews of real-world tactical operations and lessons learned.

  • Practical field exercises simulating reconnaissance, route planning, and observation.

  • Team planning sessions with role assignments, decision-making drills, table-top exercises, and after-action reviews.

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.