HOHENFELS, Germany -- The Joint Multinational Readiness Center's military police, military intelligence and engineer observer, coach, trainers (OCT) from the Raptor Team conducted detainee operations and riot control familiarization to a unique audience Dec. 14.
The thorough, day-long training was developed, planned, and executed by the Raptor Team. But this training was not developed for allies or other U.S. Soldiers training here at JMRC, it was developed for the Raptor team.
"First and foremost, each Soldier was tasked to instruct a portion of the exercise and respond to audience questions as the subject matter expert," said Sgt. Marcus Todd, Human Intelligence OCT for the Raptors MI Team. "It's a valuable opportunity to exercise our teaching abilities and to learn from one another."
"Secondly, since the Raptors consist of three different occupational concentrations we became more familiar with the other skill sets," he added. "I wore riot gear, that doesn't happen a lot in the realm of the military intelligence."
"The Raptor's military police team are demonstrating all operations pertaining to detainee operations from apprehension and executing proper search procedures to detainee processing and proper care if detainees are held with or without charges pending," said Capt. Chad E. Peabody, Raptor's Military Police team leader.
As Peabody speaks he is attentively evaluating the MP team's training performance.
An MP approaches a member of the OPFOR role-playing as an aggressor. The MP subdues the possible threat with a hand-to-hand take-down method performed in slow motion as another MP Soldier verbally instructs the audience on each movement and describes the intent. The demonstration is repeated at normal speed for the audience. The threat is not resistant and safely immobilized in a kneeling position.
As the aggressor is successfully apprehended and subdued another team moves forward to demonstrate methods of body search.
"The military intelligence team will contribute the next training segment instructing detainee interrogation rules, methods and ethics, said Peabody. "Then our MP team will transition to riot control training."
Six Soldiers volunteered to demonstrate the use of the riot gear. After establishing a six-person line of defense they were instructed on proper movement, how to implement the riot clubs and how to interlock the barrier shields as a protective wall.
"As military police we wanted to demonstrate a baseline of skills to our Raptor Team OCTs for operating a detention holding area and riot and crowd control to train the rotational training units participating at JMRC," said Staff Sgt. William Threadgill, Raptor Military Police Team OCT. "We armed our OCTs with this knowledge to strengthen the Raptor Team's mission capabilities."
This internal training acted as a team building exercise to strengthen the team's cohesion. The Raptors achieved that and gained much more.
With this training, the Raptor Team will continue to dedicate their manpower to U.S. and multinational unit's rotational training, but with a greater appreciation for the skills of their teammates and themselves.
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