For Law Enforcement or Security Professionals

Basic SWAT Training

Grey Group’s Basic SWAT Training Course is a hands-on program designed to prepare law enforcement officers for real-world tactical operations. Aligned with NTOA recommendations, this course focuses on practical application—developing team movement, communication, and decision-making for high-risk missions such as warrant service, barricaded suspects, and structure clearing.

Designed for officers assigned to or seeking placement on SWAT and other tactical teams, students leave with a Basic SWAT certification and the ability to integrate back into their team with improved capability and confidence.

This was a tough course, as it should be. I really enjoyed the course and everything we worked on. The instructors were great at giving individual feedback and answering questions and explaining tactics further as well as providing personal experiences and applying those experiences to what we were learning was excellent. Thank you for this course, I would highly recommend it!
R. Ruzich
Student

Training Overview

Grey Group’s Basic SWAT training is a hands-on, mission-focused course designed to build operators for real-world SWAT operations. Students develop the core skills needed for high-risk warrant service, barricaded suspects, and structure clearing, with a strong emphasis on team movement, communication, and decision-making. 

Training progresses from individual fundamentals to small unit tactics and full team scenarios, reinforcing breaching, reconnaissance, immediate action drills, and tactical medicine. By the end of the course, students are prepared to operate effectively within a team and return to their agency with the confidence and capability to perform in real-world SWAT operations.

Core Training Topics

Required Equipment

  • Team Organization and Structure
  • High-Risk Warrant Service and Structure Clearing
  • Barricaded Operations
  • Live-Fire shooting and Tac Med
  • Breaching Tactics and Entry/Porting Techniques
  • Immediate Action Drils and CQC Principles
  • Safety Priorities, Use of Force, and Subject Control
  • Leadership and Team Integration Roles
  • Mission Planning, Reconnaissance, Debriefing
  • Intro to Hostage Rescue
  • Ballistic Helment, Ballistic Body Armor
  • Pistol/Rifle with chamber blocker
  • 100 Rifle, 150 handgun NTLA/SIMs or airsoft
  • Eye Pro, Long Sleeves, Gloves, Hearing protection
  • PPE Gear: head, neck, groining
  • Radio
  • 500 rounds live-fire rifle | 300 pistol
  • Gas Mask
  • Shield (Optional)
  • Grey Group doesn't provide ammo or SIMS

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)

Grey Group’s Basic SWAT training stands apart by focusing on real-world performance rather than just covering topics or techniques. While NTOA-based courses provide solid doctrine and many private programs emphasize individual skills or static drills, Grey Group integrates those foundations into dynamic, team-based training that reflects actual SWAT operations. Students are required to move, communicate, and make decisions under pressure in realistic scenarios, not just perform isolated repetitions. The course is built around common mission sets like high-risk warrants and barricaded suspects, ensuring everything trained directly applies to the field. The result is a program that develops operators who can immediately integrate back into their team with stronger communication, better decision-making, and the ability to perform in real-world environments—not just pass a course.

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Yes. Leadership development is built into every phase of the course. Grey Group operates on a “next man up” philosophy, where leadership is not a title—it’s a responsibility to do what’s right for the team in real time.

Each day, students are assigned as team leaders and assistant team leaders, giving them direct responsibility for planning, communication, and execution. Operators are also placed into small groups where they are regularly rotated into leadership roles, forcing them to make decisions, guide teammates, and take ownership of outcomes under pressure.

This approach develops practical, decentralized leadership—ensuring students return to their teams ready to step up, lead when needed, and contribute to overall mission success.

This course is designed for officers assigned to or seeking assignment to SWAT, warrant service teams, narcotics units, fugitive apprehension teams, and crime suppression teams.

Yes. Grey Group works directly with agencies to host training at their location, reducing costs and increasing relevance by training in real-world environments with the full team.

Yes. Grey Group instructors are actively involved with their SWAT teams and serve as lead instructors, Commanders, TL’s, and operators. They have real-world experience at all levels of SWAT operations. They understand the legal, doctrinal, and tactical requirements necessary to teach this course and prepare teams for real-world execution and team intergradation. 

Yes. Students receive a Basic SWAT certification upon successful completion of the course, preparing them to return to their agency and operate within their team.

The Basic SWAT course is a 5-day program, running daily from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Training days are structured for maximum productivity, with only a short lunch break and minimal downtime. This ensures students stay engaged and get the most out of each day through continuous, hands-on instruction and application.