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Most of the almost always white and male novice guardsmen in attendance at these occasions wore a de facto uniform-tactical vests and body armor, tactical cargo pants, and, usually, an assault rifle strapped on-as they did their greatest operator cosplay. It’s unimaginable to know exactly what most of them have been carrying, but it’s likely that many had on pieces from 5.11, one of the most important and most outstanding tactical gear manufacturers. In not less than one case, one of the attendees was positively sporting 5.11: After he killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota, Twitter users dug up a picture of the shooter, Kyle Rittenhouse, holding an assault rifle and grinning in a 5.Eleven t-shirt.

One factor SWAT groups have learned over time is that crazed gunmen don’t always wait around for SWAT to execute a carefully-conceived plan. The suspect could begin shooting at officers, killing hostages or make an escape try. For this reason, SWAT teams develop a few “fast and dirty” contingency plans as quickly as they arrive on the scene.

At the same time, he excluded the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national intelligence, two officials included by regulation in the NSC, from the list of those who often would attend NSC meetings, decreeing as an alternative that they “shall attend [only] where issues pertaining to their obligations and experience are to be discussed” [sources: Jaffe, White Home].