The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is one of the most highly trained tactical units in U.S. law enforcement. Formed in 1982, it serves as the FBI’s full-time counterterrorism and hostage ...

"Operators are able to fast-rope out of helicopters, parachute with full mission equipment ... HRT can launch assaults with speed, precision and, if necessary, deadly force." In a statement this ...

Two FBI Agents apparently died Friday while trying ... The agents were part of the elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), and were "participating in a maritime counterterrorism exercise," said the ...

When alerted that my former teammates on the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team had been deployed to handle the tactical resolution, I breathed a sigh of relief. The HRT is the world’s premier domestic ...

HRT deployments on these aircraft operate under call signs JENA1 and JENA2. It is probable that elements from the FBI’s counter-IED section and crisis negotiation unit joined HRT on the flight.