Training Goal:
Students who complete this course will gain a basic understanding of how IEDs work and how they may be employed. Students will learn how to respond to IED threats, suspicious packages, and suspected devices. Students will gain familiarity with the various search techniques and technologies. Students will develop a basic understanding of how to safely and effectively respond to an IED attack and coordinate with responding authorities.
This course is delivered in person, in a classroom setting. Students will handle and interact with inert (safe) IED training aids to enhance realism. This course is only available for first responders, licensed security professionals, and military members (active or reservists).
Outline:
- Introduction
- What is an IED?
- Electric and Non-Electric Types
- Components
- Switch Types
- Explosive Types
- IED Employment Tactics
- Type by function
- IED types based on the bombers intended target
- Basic explosive effects
- Response to IED threat
- Phone Threat
- Suspicious packages
- Suspected device
- Primary and Secondary Search Techniques and Technologies
- Principles of a proper search
- Searching types
- Electronic Searching Technology
- Bomb Dogs
- Unmanned Systems
- Response to IED discovery
- General Safety Precautions
- Reconnaissance
- Marking
- Communication
- Clearing, Cordons, and Controls
- Secondary searches of all response and staging locations
- Coordinating and turning over the scene to EOD/Bomb Squad
- Scene Management Considerations
- IED Threat Assessment Tools and Resources
Required Equipment:
- Note-Taking Materials
- Lunch, snacks, and drinks
Instructors:
Gravitas Protection Group IED Awareness Instructors are Navy EOD Technicians who served as Naval Special Operations Bomb Technicians. These instructors possess years of experience in their field and have taught IED Awareness to forces all over the world, from security personnel, and local/state/federal law enforcement, to other Special Operations personnel.
