By now everyone knows the two FBI Agents who went down Friday were part of an elite special operations unit.
Less commonly-known is that unit's history.
Anticipating security problems at the '84 Olympics in LA, then-director of the FBI William H. Webster undertook the task of establishing a special operations branch. What eventually became the Hostage Rescue Team would train right beside America's toughest operators, picking up all their tactics, techniques, and procedures along the way.
In fact, since its establishment, many former military operators have gone on to try out for the FBI's HRT.
Over the years, the rigorous standards paid off in more than 800 operations — Most recently in 2011 when they helped kill a few Somali pirates and then domestically when they rescued a boy from a hostage-taker hunkered down in a bunker.
The HRT training center is located at the FBI Academy on the Marine Base in Quantico, Virginia. (Those are Marine Corps pull-up bars.)
They have several specialties that have been primarily developed in the military, and in fact they often train right beside the nation's most elite operators.
At their own specially designed 'shoot-house' they practice military urban tactics.
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