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2. Firescope. Emergency response to tactical law enforcement
incidents. http://www.firescope.org/specialist-groups/safety COL (Ret) Pennardt is an emergency medicine physician
/downloads/emergency-response-to-tactical-law-enforcement who currently serves as professor and vice chairman of Opera-
-incidents.pdf. tional Medicine at Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Geor-
3. United Fire Fighters. UFF position statement: active shooter gia. He retired as a colonel after 23 years of US Army service,
and mass casualty terrorist events. https://www.nfpa.org/~ which included numerous special operations assignments. He
/media/Files/Member%20access/member%20sections is the director of the National TEMS Council, a sworn law en-
/Metro%20Chiefs/UFFActiveShooterPositionStatement forcement officer, TEMS provider, and SWAT medical director.
.pdf. E-mail: apennardt@gru.edu.
4. Delaware Office of EMS. Paramedic standing orders and
policies for Tactical Emergency Medical Support Program. Dr Schwartz is an emergency medicine physician who cur-
November 2008. http://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dph/ems rently serves as professor and chairman of Emergency Medi-
/files/temsmedicalprotocols08.pdf. cine and Hospitalist Services at Georgia Regents University,
Augusta, Georgia. He has extensive experience planning and
providing care in support of both military and civilian law
enforcement operations.

Covert. Tactical. Durable. Phantom.

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