Tactical response team

A tactical response team is a group made up of specialists, usually from some sort of military or law-enforcement background, who coordinate operations on behalf of a specific benefactor. Tactical response teams may be an adjunct of a military unit, or a government agency, or they may be civilian specialists who are privately employed.

Tactical response team may be employed for scouting expeditions, to survey an environment and perform a threat assessment, or they may be instructed for more controversial tasks such as assassinations. In the military, these tasks are often regarded as being "off-the-books" and code-named Black Operations, or Black Ops. Other tactical response teams may also be used to carry out rescue missions. It is not uncommon for members of a tactical response team to be a specialist in some form of military training, whether that be heavy weapons, unarmed combat, demolitions, etc.