Tactical Basics: Team make-up Part III.

Tactical Basics: Team make-up Part III Specialists

As a rule ARU tend not to use specialists per se, they should always be embedded into a fully capable team that is able to provide security "bubbles" for the specialist to work within. In fact a whole mission objective can be based around providing safe transit and working space for a specialist to perform their task.

Specialists in the ARU

The defining a specialist utilized by the ARU, that is to say an operative that is highly specialised to the point at which normal operational functions are hindered.

We set aside rigged for breach, gas, flash, string, Easter, doughnuts... as not being a specialist but an operative that obeys tenant No.1 "Always carrying a firearm" who happens to be rigged for a particular task.

A specialist is an operative that is greatly hindered in their ability to defend themselves against threat(s) in their normal function or enters an operational mission severely under the combat power required to safely operate.

As such ARU attempts to not use Specialists as it breaks our cardinal rule Tenant No.1, but all things adaptable a clause is installed to allow Team leaders maximum scope in planning.

Team leaders should clearly state that an operative is a "specialist" and place them "inside" the transit chain with clear instructions on when they can operate within their designed function.

Note: An example is a non-lethal specialist who after transiting within a chain is released to compliance duties inside a security bubble created by his fellow operatives.

This concludes the team make-up section of the series, hopefully you will see that we opt to be adaptable and flexible to situations yet predictable to our fellow operatives, this is the core values we strive to attain.