Images: Riot team training in Elgin
Officer Steve Bruening with the Kane County Sheriffs Department dons his gas mask during riot training with the Mobile Field Force. Bruening is a grenadier on the team.
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Mobile Field Force officers practice a formation where a hole is made in the formation and officers run through ahead of the rest of the team.
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Officer Steve Bruening with the Kane County Sheriffs Department is a grenadier in the Mobile Field Force.
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Members of the Mobile Field Force walk in formation to a parking lot on the grounds of the old Sherman Hospital to start drills in marching and formations.
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SWAT members practice formation in the parking lot of the old Sherman Hospital in Elgin.
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Patrol Officer Arturo Gracia with the East Dundee police department participates in an encircling formation during in riot training with the Mobile Field Force.
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Each member of the Mobile Field Force has a number and teams are assigned colors, represented by a square attached with Velcro on the back of their helmet. Platoon leaders wear the square as a diamond shape.
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Laura Stoecker/lstoecker@dailyherald.comJohnsburg patrol officer Michael Vollmer has been with the Mobile Field Force for three years.
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