USMA cadets participated in the 2021 FBI Crisis Negotiation course hosted by the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership and led by the FBI New York Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT). Throughout the week, cadets learned how to develop enough of a relationship with a person in crisis to eventually cause behavioral change in the individual and save his or her life. At the end of the week, the FBI brings in several agents to be role-players. Those agents act like a person in crisis, and cadets, as a team of generally four or five, must put their negotiating skills to the test. Read more in the latest issue of West Point magazine: https://bit.ly/FBIcourseWP. Such opportunities make a West Point education like no other, and they are made possible through gifts from graduates, parents, corporations, foundations, and other friends of West Point supporting the Margin of Excellence.
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