Air Marshals

[Airborne Cadet]

Was wondering if anyone had any idea what kind of training program the Air Marshals use. I hear they keep their program pretty quiet, and I haven't been able to find anything on it. What does their program cover other than marksmanship? Hostage negotiation? Hand to hand? Maybe even piloting basics? What?

[Erick Gelhaus]

Most of their training is going to be very close hold for OpSec reasons. And should remain that way.

I think there is some open source info on them at www.specialoperations.com , you'll just have to dig for it.

SWAT had an open source article on them recently.

Their old qual course was bouncing around the Net for quite a while. It has been changed but to my knowledge it has not gotten out to the Web.

[mercop]

My best friend is a FAM. He was in the first group before they cut the training way down. For about three weeks he shot 600 rnds in the morning and 600 in the afternoon. All CQB stuff.