The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), founded in 1982, operates as a full-time tactical unit capable of deploying within four ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...