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Tactical Tracking Operations |  | Author: David Scott-Donelan
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 74734
Media: Paperback
Pages: 184
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581600038
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.422
EAN: 9781581600032
ASIN: 1581600038
Publication Date: November 1, 1998
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This manual is packed with practical lessons, on-the-ground tricks, training drills and equipment suggestions for the solo tracker on up to a multiagency tracking operation. Learn from a 30-year veteran how to find and follow tracks through any terrain; assess the age of tracks; relocate the trail after it's gone missing; foil every effort to throw off your pursuit; coordinate a four-man team while tracking armed fugitives; set up and run large tracking operations, use the latest high-tech gear to find fugitives and more.
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 Reliable Combat Tracking November 11, 2008
Kregg Jorgenson (Seattle)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm prejudiced. I have served in combat as a pointman/tracker and was taught the step-by-step approach, had some minor success with it and was wounded several times as a result. You simply cannot serve as a pointman and a tracker at the same time without serious consequence. You can't have your eyes on the ground and your eyes on the bush at the same time. The Tactical Tracking Operations School method offers proven and reliable tactical tracking techniques honed from decades of combat experience in a number of conflict zones. What you get with David Scott-Donelan and this book is a remarkable introduction into the world of tactical tracking from someone with impressive credentials. This isn't esoteric hype or 'Hey! Let's go search for grandma' tracking. With Tactical Tracking Operations you're getting decades of hard fought and earned experienced confined in just several hundred pages. You won't learn to become a tactical tracker with one reading nor will you earn a badge or beret. That comes from hands-on, boots on the ground missions against armed enemies who are determined to do you harm. Then, if you're oh so fortunate-to survive you learn to refine those techniques, learn in spite of your ego, and realize the value of those like Scott-Donelan and what they bring to the table.
Perhaps that is why elite Special Operations units today employ his Tactical Tracking techniques and why it is even part of the Marines Combat Hunter program.
I have high respect for Search and Rescue teams who go out to bring back those who are injured or lost just as I do for those trackers who introduce something of real value into the mix. However, Tactical Tracking is for combat or special operations missions where the need to know which weapons work best, which cammo pattern assists the team members in the bush, and which tactics and strategies can save lives out weigh the nonsense of puffed up personalities vying for time in the limelight.
If you're looking for a book that delves into what tactical tracking is all about without the hoopla, hype or gloss then you need to add David Scott-Donelan's book to your library. It is battle born and battle bled and all you're risking here is a papercut.
Now, let me hear a loud Hoo-ah and Semper Fi for all of those honorably serving in uniform. And while we're at it, let's hear one for Scott-Donelan as well.
Tactical Tracking Operations review September 29, 2008
R. Hoyle (New Mexico USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book that is a must for anybody interested in tracking from world's premiere tracker. Good reference for any tracking team member or leader to read and set their team's training/standards to. Goto the TTOS if you are military, law enforcement, or search and rescue-you will truly see the world with new eyes and this book will complement that training!
Best PopularBook on the Subject July 15, 2008
Tornike Asatiani (Rep. Georgia)
Study material about this very specific field of military training is very rare and this book i guess is the best among them.
Written by real professional. Based on historical examples and selfexpirience.
After reading this book you willn't become a tracker but in join with US Army recon plt FM it will give you not only understanding of the tracking military art but also will provide with some useful basic practical skills
Tactical Tracking Operations Review May 20, 2008
Lilly Walton (Sierra Vista, AZ USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is intriguing and most essential for all trackers who sought for the truth about tracking. It is profoundly written backed by photographs and illustrations on elements that relates to tracking. It is clear and concisely written on the art of tracking. The author's sincere and thoroughness in capturing a skill that is crucial in many of key professions, serving to protect and safeguard in current world against global war on terrorism, was most remarkable. This book is paramount due to author's diversity in tracking and tactical skills as well as his passion in training others in wide range of professions. It is flawlessly written and most helpful for soldiers of today.
World Class Tactical Tracking Instruction December 17, 2007
Jeffery Loman (Anchorage, Alaska)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is about tracking men-armed and violent men. I know David Scott-Donelan well and graduated from the TTOS he now operates full time. His training is the best in the world. When our military figured out they needed tactical tracking training after we got into Afghanistan they found the best in world. They found David Scott-Donelan a 30-year guerrilla warfare veteran in both Rhodesian and South Afrikan military commando units. You see, properly identifying, tracking and then apprehending or eliminating armed and dangerous subject(s) is serious business. David is the best in this business and this book reflects the pride and professionalism you rarely see anymore. If you want the best tactical tracking operations information buy this book. If you're interested mystics, myth, or malarkey there are other books on tracking to buy. This one is for keeps!
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