INTERNATIONAL
EXPEDITIONARY TRAINING
Composed to the client's requirements.
Concept of operations
This programme exists to put something within reach that otherwise is not: training of particular depth and standard, built and delivered by people who have lived the work. The organisation around it carries every detail, so participants think about training and nothing else.
In practice that means holding a casualty alive when evacuation is hours or days away, moving and communicating when roads and networks are gone, and keeping judgement intact through civil disturbance or disaster where little can be assumed and less can be resupplied. Programmes close with a scenario exercise that puts all of it in one place.
There is no open enrolment; programmes form as closed groups with minimum sizes, one client at a time. Everything here points one way: capability held for protection, and the judgement that decides when it is not needed.
Little of this work is published, at the request of the clients it belongs to, and the same discretion extends to everyone who trains with us.
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Core programmes
Tactical Medicine
Pre-hospital trauma care to austere critical care. The core of every deployment.
Tactical Trauma Care
Intensive pre-hospital trauma care in a tactical setting: theory and skill stations, then casualty simulation on the range.
- Tactical considerations
- Catastrophic haemorrhage control
- Airway and breathing management
- IV and IO access
- Treatment protocols
- Operational pharmacology
- Practical skill stations
- Casualty simulations
Prolonged Field Care
Austere critical care beyond the golden hour, where evacuation is delayed: classroom and skills labs, then a field phase closing with a 36-hour exercise.
- Documentation and trending
- Airway and ventilator management
- Blood products
- Surgical skills labs
- Operational pharmacology
- Extended nursing care
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Telemedicine
- Medical mission planning
- Logistics and sustainment
- 36-hour final exercise
Final Exercise
Scenario exercises that take the medical programmes into the environment, run as immersive iterations.
- Jungle exercise, built on prolonged field care
- Urban and non-permissive environment exercise, built on prolonged field care
- Maritime exercise, built on tactical trauma care
- Trauma refresher drills, available as a bolt-on
Critical Thinking
Rural, urban and mountain environments, and the comms to work across them.
Rural Operations
Bush skills from navigation to mission planning: classroom work, then time in the field living out of what you carry.
- Land navigation
- GPS navigation
- Patrol formations
- Tracking and anti-tracking introduction
- River work and crossings
- Reconnaissance
- Mission planning
Urban Operations
Operating through civil disturbance or disaster in a contested, resource-constrained environment, closing with a scenario exercise.
- Stand-fast considerations
- Relocation planning
- Triggers
- Vehicle and mobility considerations
- Muster points and warden systems
- Route planning
- Load-outs and gear management
- Communications
- Sustainment and water security
- Scenario exercise
Mountain Operations
Mountain work: advanced rope work with climbing and rappelling, search and rescue fundamentals, altitude medicine.
- Search and rescue introduction
- Land and GPS navigation
- Advanced rope work, climbing and rappelling
- Mission planning
- Altitude medicine introduction
Off-Grid Communications
Communications planning and equipment for off-grid operations.
Add-on modules
Add-ons bolt onto a core programme and are composed to requirement; they do not stand alone.
Marksmanship
Pure marksmanship and weapon handling.
Applied Marksmanship: Handgun / Rifle
Marksmanship through diagnosis and skill transfer: efficiency, manipulation, speed and accuracy. Culminates in work in and around vehicles.
- Fundamentals
- Marksmanship
- Malfunctions and clearances / IADs
- Use of cover
- Rifle zeroing and set-up
- Sling manipulation
- Performance drills
Precision Marksmanship
The precision rifle role and its employment, built on long-gun fundamentals.
- Precision rifle systems
- Ballistics
- Zeroing and MOA
- Supported shooting positions
- Unsupported shooting positions
- Circuit drills
Unfamiliar Platforms
AK-pattern rifle and submachine gun familiarisation.
Under Duress
Shooting and self-aid, trained as one thing rather than two.
Under Duress: Handgun
The signature fusion: run the weapon, stay in the fight, treat yourself. Drills under pressure with the shooter hit.
- Control-hand and support-hand only engagements
- Malfunctions and clearance
- Simulations with the shooter hit
- Use of cover
- Working in and around vehicles
- Self aid and buddy aid
Under Duress: Carbine
The same fusion on the rifle: manipulation, engagements off both sides, and self-aid with the carbine in play.
- Rifle fundamentals
- Presentation and sling application
- Control-side and support-side only engagements
- Malfunctions and clearance
- Working in and around vehicles
- Self aid and buddy aid
Low Light
Low light, no light and night vision.
Night Vision Familiarisation
Across all modules
Night vision is not treated as a course of its own. Familiarisation with the devices is built into modules across the programme, so a group learns the equipment while doing the work rather than in a classroom.
- Head, helmet and weapon-mounted configurations
- Fitting, focus and adjustment until it is quick and repeatable
- Movement, depth perception and scanning under tube
- Working with and without illumination, and light discipline
- Care, batteries and the faults that show up in the field
Low Light: Handgun
Live-fire work in no light and low light with weapon-mounted and handheld light systems, run from daylight into darkness.
- Handheld light techniques
- Weapon-mounted light techniques
- Working in and around vehicles
- Urban clearance exercises
- Trauma simulations
Low Light: Carbine
The carbine under the same conditions, with backup handheld techniques and clearance work in the dark.
- Weapon-mounted light techniques
- Backup handheld techniques
- Working in and around vehicles
- Urban clearance exercises
- Trauma simulations
Mobility & Aviation
Vehicles and aircraft, folded into any programme.
All-terrain vehicles, standard cars and specialist platforms are available. Rotary and fixed wing aviation can be integrated: AS350 Squirrel family, including the high-altitude B3, and Cessna Caravan. Aviation pairs with Prolonged Field Care for casualty care in transit.
Composition
Every programme is a module. Modules combine into bespoke packages; content is added or removed to fit the mission and the group. Solutions are crafted on request, and quotations are based on requirements.
Who it is for
Programmes run as closed groups for government units and vetted private clients. Extended deployments of one to three weeks are recommended: the travel deserves depth.
Participation is subject to screening. DTD Systems GmbH does not serve parties to active conflicts or sanctioned jurisdictions.
Logistics
Airport transfers, accommodation to the standard of your choice and catering are organised for you and included in the total, so students can focus entirely on the training.
Also on this site: our Swiss medical training and the night vision catalogue.
