The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT ... and platforms to support its operations. A small fleet of helicopters and boats ensures HRT operators can operate in any environment, but they also often ...

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.

A short time later, the helicopter ... ensures that the HRT can launch assaults with speed, precision and, if necessary, deadly force." In a statement this year, FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce ...

NORFOLK, Va. Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency ...

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 ...

The HRT training center is located at the FBI Academy on the Marine Base in ... They also learn specialized low-altitude helicopter assaults ... "fast roping" — for example, onto a target's ...

The helicopter was about 1,000 feet above ground and heading for the Manassas Regional Airport and the shot was fired near Middleburg, Va, the official added. FBI agents were dispatched to the ...

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — A former FBI agent and pilot in Connecticut said that while they can’t know for certain right now what caused a helicopter to crash into the Hudson River in New York City ...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood man was arrested Thursday for allegedly operating a drone that crashed into a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter ... attorney's office said. FBI special agents ...