The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), founded in 1982, operates as a full-time tactical unit capable of deploying within four hours across the U.S. or overseas. With training modeled on military ...

FBI The HRT was created in 1982 by Danny Coulson, a visionary special agent. It was certified in 1983 and deployed for the first time a year later at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. ...

The FBI HRT, a domestic counter-terrorism unit prior to the 9/11 attacks, has become a de facto Special Operations force in its own right. While U.S. Special Operations units have frequently used ...

Pictures From Raid On Alabama Bunker Show Just How Tough A Job The FBI Had By Geoffrey Ingersoll 2013-06-03T21:28:00Z ...

We’ll likely learn a great lot more in the next 24 hours. But for a moment on Wednesday, it’s clear the FBI thought that HRT would need to go on an urgent terrorist hunt.

WEST POINT, N.Y. (Jan. 26, 2011) -- The West Point Combat Weapons Team recently visited the FBI Hostage Rescue Team's headquarters in Quantico, Va., to train on close quarters battle techniques.