Later on, the bar was raised, and the ope-
rators had to conduct some simple tra-
ining missions which were tests of the
skills, movement and communications
between team members. The final part
of the training was conduction a full-scale
operation with scenario were the hosta-
ges were taken and bad guys were holding
them in the high-story building. During
this force-on-force scenario, operators
were using the breaching equipment, fla-
shbangs and FX marking munition. The
situation was intentionally complicated
because of the lacking intel about location
and amount of the hostages inside the
building. Building itself has very compli-
cated interriors which were not helpful at
all. The scenario included situations were
team members could be wounded during
the operation and the rest of the team had
to provide him first aid and exfil him out of
the building.
The techniques and procedures trained
during workshops for sure had strong po-
sitive impacts on the skills of the opera-
tors and allowed to match them between
different units. This will have great impor-
tance during the incomin NATO Summit in
Warsaw and World Youth Day in Krakow
this summer.
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