VIP extraction aboard a Swiss Air Force Super Puma helicopter for those Police officers from the close protection details unit (DPR). Armed with HK MP5 and Glock 19.

A French Foreign legion paratrooper "combat diver" from 2e REP is coming out of the water on a Corsican beach near Calvi during a night exercise.

The camo net is a very simple, yet very efficient piece of equipment used by most combat divers to break their silhouette.

Eric at soldiersystems.net kindly presented my work on his famous blog, and I see there is already a lot of visitors coming from there.

Welcome if it is your first visit, enjoy, share the address with your friends and come back often as there will be some major updates with plenty of new pics in 2012 !

This one is specially dedicated to Eric and our friend Pascal ;-)

French Foreign Legion NCO from 2e REP aiming is FAMAS during an exercise in the Corsican mountains.

I have updated and refreshed a bit my web site :

www.bigdomphoto.com

Last week, I have spent 3 days with the "Peloton d'Intervention de la Garde Républicaine" (SWAT team from the Gendarmerie honor guard that is on duty at the President's "Palais de l'Élysée".

Small team of great guys that will soon be send to French Guyana for a 3 months mission.

I'll publish a couple of teaser pics, but you will discover them later in both French magazine Police pro and German magazine Kommando.

I promise, this one is the last "new year" card that I've been doing for a unit ;-)
I'll explain later who this not very well known unit is.

Downed helicopter pilot equipped with the latest MSA-Gallet flight helmet, an Eagle Industries CIACS vest and a FN P90 as a self-defense weapon.

And the last one is for a team I have worked with a couple of times also, PI2G from Toulouse.

This one was for Bordeaux's GIPN.

"Old" pics because I didn't get the chance to work with them lately. Hopefully I will in 2012 ;-)

Another one for GIGG snipers team this time.

Happy new year !

Stay safe in 2012, especially if you are a law enforcement officer or if you are in the military.

As usual during this period of the year, I have been designing a couple of greetings cards for some units. Nothing too fancy because we were a bit in a hurry, but here you go.

 

Back side :

Special forces in Multicam with FNH SCAR and Minimi.

Swiss Police DPR hand to hand / self defense training in their Dojo.

After being published is German magazine "Kommando", my story and pics about Swiss Police DPR team (close protection detail) is now featured in French "Police Pro".

Ready to ride !

Rappelling looks much cooler than fast roping, but tactically it is far less efficient...

A bit too slow and too complicated with all the equipment, so in a real world situation, they would rather use the fast rope. 

But still, it looks a bit like "blackhawk down" to ride like this ;-)

GIGG operators gathered for a briefing in front of the EC 635 helicopter, prior to the exercise.

Second day of fast rope training with GIGG.

Geneva's lake looked and felt a bit like the north sea and I was soaking wet after 5mn on the RIB boat...

The Swiss Air Force pilot did his job and nobody ended in the water ;-)

As usual with those guys, everything was smooth and professional.

I have spent another nice day with the guys from swiss GIGG.

They had a Swiss Air Force EC 635 helicopter to train with all day, but unfortunately it was a rather poor weather with rain and wind... Well, the helicopter could still fly and we had good fun anyway.

We'll do it again tomorrow but on the lake this time, so more to come later ;-)

French Gendarmerie "PI2G" (Peloton d'intervention de seconde génération) operator with B&T 40mm grenade launcher and Aimpoint Micro T1 red dot.

 

Multicam combat diver with FNH SCAR, AIMPOINT Comp M4 and 3X MAG.

French special forces 1er RPIMA INVEX squadron training for CQB in their kill house.

Multicam sniper and spotter with FNH SCAR and Schmidt Bender scope.

This blog is one year old today !

If you like it, please, take 5mn and share it with your friends, on forums, etc...

The more readers I have around the world, the more credibility I have when I knock on a unit's door and ask for permission to "shoot" them.

There will be some nice development in 2012, so stay tuned !

Like GIGN, RAID operators can now use military Puma helicopters. They belong and are operated by "COS" (Commandement des opérations spéciales), the french "SOCOM".

That is a great tactical advantage for them, and that day they were particularly training for air assault by rope.