3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Primer, 2005-11-17
The book is an in depth primer for the training of a Special Unit/SWAT Team. It answers questions, provides sound tactical guidance, and addresses in a step-by-step fashion several key segments of special unit's operational duties (sniper use and defeat, barricaded gunmen, building and room clearing, movement, stairwells and halls, ambush drills, hostages etc.)
I was pleased with my purchase and have recommended it others.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Worth the $$$$, 2004-09-04
This is a good tactical book. Explains very clearly tactical techniques and shows some diagrams. The diagrams are "football playbook" like. They do the job. This book is more like a manual that is given while training to be in SWAT. Not something you pick up and become SWAT. Being because the techniques shown already require some kind of knowledge such as moving in formations. Such as "V formation". Tells you to use V formation not how to move in V formation. I aspire to be in SWAT one day and this book will be very helpful.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
I'm Very Pleased, 2003-11-24
I am not in a law enforcement related vocation. I purchased this book to try to get an understanding of what our police departments might use in preparing them to do some of the more dangerous tasks associated with their jobs.This book was extremely clear and insightful in explaining the uses of special teams, describing in-depth, step by step tactics, outlining training procedures, and exposing me to many other great to know items.
I have always had a great respect for our police officers. Knowing that they have this type of reference material available to them, makes me feel all the more confident in their abilities to handle situations that occur over and above their normal, already dangerous daily operations.
I'm glad that I bought it...
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
An old friend.., 2003-07-07
During the period that this book was in the process of being written I had the pleasure of knowing Capt. Cappel. This was the first book of its kind at the time published. Capt. Cappel was also kept busy helping local police forces start up and train their teams. As a Viet Nam Vet who earned the Silver Star, he knew from experience what he wrote.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
My first SWAT training book, 2003-04-12
I liked this very much. The tactics were presented in a step by step "how to" manner. Easy to follow. It is organized and clear.