Army SWAT Team

A member of the 728th Military Police Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, Special Reaction Team, pictured during a hostage rescue training exercise.

SRTs are the Military Police equivalent of civilian police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Teams .

Drawn from a detachment's pool of MPs, the SRT at a given Army base stands ready to respond to crisis situations at that location.

These include active shooter incidents such as the 2013 shootings at the Washington Navy Yard or the 2009 incident at Fort Hood.

This SRT operator is wearing a ACH helmet with a GoPro Night Vision Goggle Mount holding a GoPro HD HERO video camera.

Facial protection includes goggles and a Nomex hood.

He is wearing a tactical assault vest over Nomex coveralls and a pair of WileyX CAG-1 tactical gloves.

The M4 carbine weilded by this SRT operator is fitted with an Aim Comp red dot sight and Surefire M910A vertical foregrip / flashlight.