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Role Players
Tatitlek is a preferred contractor to the U.S. Marines for realistic pre-deployment training and role playing services. We provide a full range of these services at several U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps installations throughout the country, including:
- Well-trained, culturally astute role players (general-purpose, armed insurgent, foreign language speaking)
- Development and delivery of language and culture classes
- Battlefield effects
- Medical trauma effects
- Logistics support for weapons training
- Management/supervisory teams that seamlessly augment the military training cadre
Tatitlek has developed and maintains a database of over 6,000 role players and foreign language speakers. They are thoroughly screened for security purposes and vetted for cultural aspects. The following languages are represented: Arabic, Pashto, Dari, Turkish, Urdu, Kurdish, Persian, Farsi, German, Italian, Spanish, French, and English.
The majority of these role players are of Iraqi descent but the database also includes people of Afghani and other descent. We can readily pull from this database to facilitate each training mission based on our clients’ specific requirements. We can quickly assemble the needed role players and foreign language speakers knowledgeable in the customs, traditions, wardrobe, food, and language to supply our clients with role players for successful training, regardless of the area of operation.
If required, we can partner with a Hollywood-style special-effects company to provide realistic, yet safe, battlefield effects. In addition to the weapons/explosive signature events, we offer state-of-the-art simulation of human medical trauma, presented in a manner permitting Medic/Corpsman to provide treatment through stabilization and evacuation. This replication is second only to Live-Tissue training in its effectiveness in preparing first-line medical personnel for deployment.
This pre-deployment training helps military personnel defuse tensions, disarm or defeat insurgents, and eliminate violence in their area of operations. It includes education in the languages, religions, mores, behaviors, and values of a target population. Role players not only behave like residents and insurgents in the target area, but are trained to follow a dynamic acting program wherein behaviors and combat patterns replicate the latest situations faced by U.S. military forces. Using such Live Training systems, which are versatile, tested, efficient, and cost-effective, has made us a premier provider of culture-based training support to both sustainment and pre-deployment military training programs.
Tatitlek currently provides role players to the U.S. Marines at Twentynine Palms, California, and to the U.S. Army at Fort Bliss, Texas, with much of the training occurring on ranges located in New Mexico. The company previously has provided support for training at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Fort Dix, New Jersey; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and Fort Benning, Georgia.
