USMC Recapture Tactics Teams

[Joe_K]

A better write up than I originally posted.

The Recapture Tactics Team or RTT specializes in SWAT/SRT type procedures although they are not MP's, as the 2 weeks of U.S. Army SRT School is not seen as being adequate to their mission profile. RTT units are attached to Nuclear Weapon Stations aboard US Naval installations and do not deploy. Where as FAST Platoons deploy to areas in need of naval security operations, RTT has no need to deploy because they are already prepositioned in the appropriate strategic locations where they are most needed.

Marines and Sailors assigned to Naval Nuclear Weapons Stations are given an opportunity, if the Command allows them, to try out for RTT, which is colloquially referred to within the nuclear commands as simply "CQB Platoon," or just "CQB."

Typically, only a small fraction of the Marines and Sailors who are permitted to try out for CQB Platoon are actually selected from the grueling 2 week selection process. Those who are selected then have a tactical spin-up (a period of intensive preparatory training,) in which the CQB Platoon's current Operators help to get the newly selected candidates ready for the 3rd hardest tactical school in the United States Marine Corps.

If they successfully complete spin-up, the RTT candidates then report to USMC CQB School where they undergo an intensive 7 week advanced combat marksmanship and dynamic assault course, during which, in-extreme hostage rescues & counter-nuclear proliferation are heavily emphasized. The Marines and Sailors learn to violently recapture, and take back by force, United States personnel and property that has been stolen or otherwise compromised.

If they pass the nearly 2 month long USMC CQB school, (80% don't), they will have officially earned the 8154 MOS, and they then go back to their Naval Nuclear Weapons Command where they spend several more weeks "testing out" by the platoon as new Shooters. Upon successfully completing that phase, the candidates are formally admitted onto the Recapture Tactics Team as "Shooters"

All RTT Shooters must attend the following schools to obtain the appropriate certifications:

Marine Corps Basic Training - 13 weeks long.

Marine Corps School of Infantry, Infantry Training Battalion (SOI-ITB) - 9 weeks long. MOS: 0311, 0331, 0341, 0351, or 0352.

Basic Security Guard (Marine Corps Security Guard Anti-Terrorism Training) - 7 weeks long. MOS: 8152

Close Quarter Battle School - 7 weeks long (not including platoon tryouts, spin-ups and the post-Schoolhouse breaking in period.) MOS: 8154

And are eligible to attend the following courses, pending their command's approval:

Designated Marksman Course (Most DM'S are not shooters, those that are, are known as double threats)

Methods of Entry or MOE: small unit demolition and door breaching tactics. (All Breachers are 8154's first. Very few are "triple threats", Shooter, DM and Breacher qualified.

High Risk Personnel also known as executive protection, similar to protective services detail, the military version of Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

Interservice Nonlethal Individual WeaponsInstructor Course and other riot control techniques

Helicopter and Rope Suspension Techniques Master Course, aka H.R.S.T., fromSpecial Operations Training Group: This course focuses on how to properly rappel down structures and out of helicopter, fast rope out of helicopter, use Special Purpose Insertion and Extraction SPIE rigging and how to rig these systems to an aircraft with the proper gear for safe tactical operations.

The Marine Corps Security Forces Close Quarters Battle Teams also go to various installations as Mobile Training Teams to teach CQB to units such as but are not limited to: military police special reaction teams, other military branches (both foreign and domestic), and law enforcement organizations (federal, state, and local).



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