ABSTRACT
The nature of protective operations most simply dened entails the pickup of a protectee or principal from a location and the transport of him or her to another location safely. This process is repeatedly conducted around the world without incident every day. However, the threat that a protective operation faces is one of the deadliest tactics in all of history, the ambush. The training required for a protective team, beyond its most basic movements to deal with such situations, is immediate-action drills designed to reduce the response time, and thereby the damage, incurred in the ambush. However, as in any of the combat arts, it is easy to get carried away with training. The goal should be to train realistically to deal with those known/potential adversaries in your area of operations. However, at the same time, a team needs to train to deal with the worstcase scenarios. The key is to nd the happy medium so that a team can effectively handle a worst-case scenario, and the more mundane protective details.
