Direct Action

PPI Security’s Direct Action Course is designed to train law enforcement personnel in small unit operations in high-threat rural environments. The SUTRA curriculum encompasses specific knowledge as it relates to small unit tactical operations.

The curriculum is divided into two parts: a common core of individual skills, and a team level tactical integration. Your specific training package will be determined after an initial interview with a PPI representative to allow us to customize the course to your requirements.

Training is divided into the following modules:

Individual Skills

• Dressing for success – Weaponry and equipment considerations for rural terrain
• Solo movement techniques – how to move silently and observantly, day and night
• Land Navigation – Tactical navigation and route planning
• Reconnaissance – How to properly reconnoiter hard targets and use sketch maps
• Surveillance – long term observation from concealed locations (hides)
• Escape and Evasion – Setting up an E&E plan in conjunction to LUP points

Team Tactics

• Operational Concepts: Long and short-range infiltration and exfiltration
• Duties of the various team members
• Command and Control: mission planning and operation orders
• Movement Formations: movement in pairs, and the Triple Pair (6-man team)
• Hand Signs: nonverbal communication methods
• Team SOPs: Immediate actions drills, crossing danger areas, actions at halts, procedures for extended stops, rally points, partisan linkups