Bustin’ Busses
Bus assault TACTICS in the time of crisis.
Whether it’s a sheriff’s department part-time tactical team that has a half dozen training days a year or a national counterterrorist unit that trains virtually all the time unless on a deployment, bus assaults are an important skill set. Military Special Reaction Teams train in bus assaults as well, while airport teams train on assaults in case a “people mover” is taken over. Hostages have been taken on school buses, public transport buses, and other types of public transport.
The first consideration in taking down a bus is that it is a linear target that will normally spread out hostages and hostage-takers. As a result, bus incidents often lend themselves well to the use of tactical marksmen. When the French counterterrorist unit GIGN had to carry out an assault against a school bus taken over by terrorists in Djibouti, they used snipers. After sending aboard drugged food for the children, which caused them to put their heads down and go to sleep, GIGN snipers took out all but one of the terrorists who had remained upright. The one surviving terrorist had to be dealt with by an assault force that rushed the bus.
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