173: Greg Shaffer – DC Snipers, HRT, Stay Safe Tips

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Retired Agent Greg Shaffer served in the FBI for twenty years. During his career, he spent six years on the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT). In this episode, he reviews the multi-agency response to apprehend the D.C. Snipers, later identified as John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, the men responsible for the random shootings of ten people in the Washington D.C. area during 23 days in October 2002. He also discusses the origin and role of the HRT, and provides safety tips, especially for when confronted by an active shooter.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 173 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public
0:16.0	who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to
0:27.7	retired agent Greg Schaefer, who served in the FBI for 20 years. During his career he spent six years on the
0:37.0	FBI's elite hostage rescue team, HRT. In this episode, Schaefer reviews the multi-agency response to apprehend the DC
0:50.0	snipers, later identified as John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo, the men responsible
0:58.6	for the random shooting of 10 people in the Washington, D.C. area during 23 days in October of 2002.
1:08.0	Schaefer also discusses the origin and the role of the HRT and provide safety tips especially for when
1:16.9	confronted by an active shooter. While on HRT Greg Schaefer trained with Department of Defense Special Mission
1:26.7	units and foreign counter-terrorism teams and conducted tactical operations in Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, the Philippines, Indonesia, East Africa, and the United States.
1:40.0	Greg is a FBI certified crisis negotiator, firearms instructor, defensive tactics
1:48.0	instructor, firearms instructor, repel and Paramedic.
1:53.0	Greg also served as the FBI's legal attache in Budapest, Hungary.
1:58.0	On two occasions, Greg was assigned to the FBI office in Dallas where he served on the North Texas
2:06.3	Violent Crime Task Force and supervised the North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force.
2:14.0	Greg Schaefer is recognized as one of the leading experts and authorities on the phenomenon
2:20.3	of active shooter events and domestic terrorism prevention and
2:25.0	has appeared on numerous national television and radio networks.
2:30.0	He is the author of Stay Safe Security Secrets for Today's Dangerous World and the founder and
2:38.9	and president of Schaefer Security Group, a global security risk management and tactical training specialty
2:46.8	firm based in Dallas Texas.
2:49.5	You can learn more about Greg Schaefer at Schaefer security group.com. This episode could save your life. You're
2:58.7	going to enjoy learning about the DC sniper and the HRT, but the safety tips are worth staying to listen to the very end.
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