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Special Agents Christopher Lorek & Stephen Shaw

Special Agents Christopher Lorek & Stephen Shaw

In February of this year, The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) celebrated its 30th Anniversary. On May 17th HRT suffered two fatalities during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Agents Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40, were part of a small, highly skilled and elite FBI tactical support team.

As a former hostage negotiator for the FBI and then during joint operations with them as chief of the Investigative Support Unit, I had the opportunity to know many of the HRT’s members on both a professional and personal level, at the FBI Academy and at various scenes of action. It is tough enough to qualify as an FBI special agent. And thousands of superior agents have applied for positions with the team since its inception, but very few meet the high standards set by this elite group. In fact, since, 1983 fewer than 300 agents have been elected to HRT.

HRT consists of some of the finest people I have ever known. They are all dedicated and brave agents who define what a real hero is, and should be, in our daily lives.

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