The Lexington High School welding and automotive students who worked over the course of three weeks to build the three breaching doors for the SWAT teams.
C-H photo • Brian Neben
Left to right, back row: SWAT team member John Royal, SWAT team member Zach Schmidt, LHS teacher Keith Nielson. Front row: LHS teacher Shane Schmidt. Both teachers worked with Zach to construct the prototype breaching door.
C-H photo • Brian Neben
One of the LHS students give his best effort to knock his way through the door with the SWAT team’s battering ram. The four breaching doors will be used in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Grand Island and Lincoln for training by the Nebraska State Patrol’s SWAT teams, LHS students constructed three of the doors in class.
C-H photo • Brian Neben
One of the breaching doors constructed by the LHS students, along with some of the tools the SWAT teams use when breaching.
LEXINGTON — Lexington High School welding and automotive students recently built three breaching doors at the request of the Nebraska State Patrol after a first prototype stood up well against the trainings of their SWAT teams.
The Lexington High School welding and automotive students who worked over the course of three weeks to build the three breaching doors for the SWAT teams.
Left to right, back row: SWAT team member John Royal, SWAT team member Zach Schmidt, LHS teacher Keith Nielson. Front row: LHS teacher Shane Schmidt. Both teachers worked with Zach to construct the prototype breaching door.
One of the LHS students give his best effort to knock his way through the door with the SWAT team’s battering ram. The four breaching doors will be used in Scottsbluff, North Platte, Grand Island and Lincoln for training by the Nebraska State Patrol’s SWAT teams, LHS students constructed three of the doors in class.
