Just saw the wackiest thing on Dallas SWAT

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I was just watching an episode of Dallas SWAT and saw them do the wackiest thing. It went down like this:

The team assualted a multistory building simultaneously from two directions. They used 4 separate clearing teams. The way the house was set up, each team cleared in the direction of at least one other team and one team, if they had shot, would have fired into two other teams. Two teams actually cleared the same level from opposite directions.

I watched the team leader brief this plan and everyone seems to think it was just swell.

I guess my question is...do these guys even think and plan for there to be return fire? Or are they just going through the motions and hoping for a good outcome? Or, do I just have too much free time for a Sunday?
 
Yeh I've seen them do some really stupid things on all those A&E swat shows...made me wonder how much training they had received.
 
Honestly, since most are not full time SWAT and it does take quite a bit of their regular shift time, I bet they don't get a whole lot of training.

The only question is, did the teams do the techniques right? If they did, then the screwup was with the planners of the raid, not the actual team (unless they did both.)
 
Reminds me of Saigon in '66, . . . Charlie came out in the intersection between a BOQ hotel and a BEQ hotel, . . . shot at both to get their attention.

When the Americans returned fire, . . . wound up firing on each other's positions for about 15 minutes. Unfortunately, . . . no Charlies shot, . . . just a few innocent collateral damage folks.

Bad guys, . . . if they sensed SWAT was coming, . . . could set up something similar. Sure wouldn't want to be on the team that day.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
I got asked to help support another detachment on a narcotics operation that had a similar plan. Two teams, without compatible radio communications, were supposed to enter the same building from different entrances, move to the target room, and enter and clear the room simultaneously from doors on opposite sides of the room.

No tac lights on any weapons, we were going to do this one in the dark and hope for the best.

Needless to say, I pulled my team onto the "blocking" detail to watch main building entrances and parking lot, and let the other unit's two teams do the "hope we don't shoot each other" entry tactic...

Sometimes it amazes me the things people think up.

Regards,

Kevin
 
I saw the same episode, I seem to remember the undercover said something about a wall or partition on the second story. But even then, it was INCREDIBLY dicey. The window entry team took forever to clear the glass and get inside.
 
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