my name is Robert Whitaker the Tactical
supervisor for El Paso SRT for Homeland
Security investigations well we have our
our big vehicle out here it's armored
vehicle uh it's an amra vehicle it's
mining resistant ambush protected that's
what it stands for this is what we use
to deliver our our um our team to
highrisk Warrant
services this is the only entry in the
vehicle here so all the operators we've
uh We've modified our particular vehicle
to have the skids on the
sides so that we can uh have operators
on the side and just get off the vehicle
uh from the from the sides makes for a
very fast deployment that's what we're
try to do um if there's an issue while
we're out serving warrant service or
something like that we can shelter in
place with this and then go into
surrounding colid operations uh inside
of here we can generally get about 10 or
11 operators in here very tight but we
can do it so we get them in there um we
have a same same on this side we have a
skid on this side as well we can put uh
four four or five operators on here with
the shield and they deploy off this side
uh the team Commander which is myself
I'll Stand in the M wrap and provide
OverWatch for the team while they're
making entering in the
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house like I said it's got a cummings
diesel engine in it it's turbocharged it
uh it'll move this vehicle about 70 mph
uh we don't like to drive it that fast
obviously 15 Tons is hard to stop so we
usually run it about 55 on the freeway
going back and forth we drive back and
forth a lot between El Paso in here so
um and it provides part it's kind of
slow taking off but actually when you
get going it feels like you're driving a
car these wheels weigh about 700 lb a
piece they're run flat tires which means
even if they get penetrated by a round
they won't go flat they will the uh they
will come down a little bit but they
have like a solid core inside of them uh
so they you can still drive on them when
when they're they get
deflated this glass right here is
multiple layers of uh of glass it's
about I would say about that thick it's
got multiple layers in there and it will
stop uh up to a 50 caliber round the
window whe so it's uh provides very good
protection for us we have gun ports in
here so we can actually we can actually
shoot from within the vehicle um you may
think it's pretty loud but actually it's
not too bad uh but we do have gun ports
there and in the back and the two two
two on the side as well our team is
station in El Paso that's where we're
from we have a team right now about 17
certified members and a couple Green
Team guys that are trying to get on the
team and we cover the entire New Mexico
state and West Texas all the way out
from El Paso to Midland and that's our
our area of operations now we are a
national team so we can be called to go
anywhere in the United States and assist
other teams with whatever they have ping