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When not operationally deployed, HRT conducts full-time training for its members at various sites across the country.

Two to three hours each day are set aside for physical training, a defensive tactics session, and combatives training.

One day a week is devoted to maintaining perishable skills, such as fast roping, breaching, photography, or specialized skills such as mobile assaults, manhunt and rural operations, maritime operations, helicopter operations, weapons of mass destruction training ( which is provided by the United States Department of Energy ), and cold weather operations.

Three days are spent honing sniping or CQB skills on the various training ranges available to the team.

Every other week, there is one day allotted for gear maintenance, and discretionary time to be used by team leaders is built into the schedule.

During a routine week of training, it is not unusual for HRT operators to fire 1, 000 rounds of ammunition to keep their shooting skills honed.

The HRT also participates in at least one major combined exercise every 12 to 18 months that involves a variety of governmental entities, such as the FBI and the departments of Defense, State, Energy, and Homeland Security.