How Delta Force thanked police after a week of urban combat training

To train in urban combat as realistically as possible, Delta Force would also train in cities. So, to perform its urban-combat training mission it needed a solid working relationship with each city’s police department because it had to receive approval from the mayor and the police department of each city that it wanted to train in.

Every aspect of Delta’s arrival and presence in a host city was certain to cause alarm to any city dweller, with consequent reports to law enforcement. If in a given city there was a lack of law enforcement to quell ruffled feathers, Delta training was not likely to occur there.

Based on a Delta representative’s detailed briefing, most cities’ mayor’s offices grant permission for the Unit to train in their city, thinking they are comfortable with what the training will entail.

Typically, residents are stunned as they don’t understand the training events. Nine-eleven circuits become jammed with panic calls and reports of mysterious black helicopters slithering among the city’s high-rise buildings and booting out ninja-like figures onto rooftops.

It becomes just a matter of time before the city mayor becomes inundated by panic reports and is pressured enough to call a halt to Delta’s urban training regimen in their city. Delta understands this and only keeps its fingers crossed in the hope that it can get the most out of its planned training events before the “boot” from the city comes.

I have trained in New Jersey, Charleston, Houston, New Orleans, and Philadelphia and none of them was able to handle a full week of urban training before it called a halt. For us, it was all just a matter of going full blast and hoping we could get most of the way through our training plan, then cut our losses.

The city that afforded us the most training before demanding that we cease-and-desist was New Jersey, where we got six days of nonstop urban training before we had to pack up and go home.

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Giving back

We paid the city police very well for the time they committed to our training: we needed them to provide secure perimeters around our target subjects, so no civilians would be allowed to get into harm’s way. We also thanked them with an invitation to come to our compound in North Carolina’s Ft. Bragg for a week of total adventure training. For the most part, we just let a number of cops strap-hang with us on our daily training routines on and off the Unit compound.

It was nothing short of an unabashed thrill for our brother policemen to experience a day in the land O’plenty that was the Delta Compound. A typical day started with physical training, a thing that the police were not at all accustomed to, so many for the most part just shadowed and watched. A couple were hurt attempting to follow us through the vaunted Delta Force obstacle course – 15 minutes of pure lung-burning hell.

It didn’t take the cops’ management longer than day one to declare the obstacle course off-limits to its employees – understandable; the command can only afford to have so many police officers unfit for duty due to bodily injuries. Our own Delta command felt the same way. There was also the matter of too many men out of action by playing unnecessarily rough basketball during an alert cycle. The command had no choice but to declare basketball off-limits during cycles of alert status.

The morning hours after showers and breakfast were times for marksmanship on our vast array of known-distance ranges suitable for basic and advanced marksmanship. The police were stunned by the presence of all the ammunition they could possibly want. We made good time of the morning hours on the flat ranges.

After lunch, the afternoon hours were dedicated to Close-Quarters Combat training – live fire exercises in the confines of building interiors of all sorts. We boasted many live fire building structures whose interiors could be configured for many different scenarios.

The cops ate it up, especially the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) cops. SWAT is a police unit that is charged with going into buildings of unknown occupation and configuration – a game not for the weak of heart.

In all, the police would have a blast and receive invaluable training in some of the most realistic environments in the country. We got our own realistic training in the cities where the police force is happy to host our presence. It’s a win-win scenario for all involved, and the country’s national defense is better off for the symbiotic relationship between the Department of Justice and DoD.

By Almighty God and with Honor,

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