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12-29-2009, 04:09 PM
zuludelta
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There is a Royal Guard in Morroco as well as an Elite Parachute Brigade. He might have come from there. Has anyone picked a good codename for Abel Shaz? I'm liking Shortburst. I like to pretend he is instead the kid that was tagging along with DUsty and Mainframe.
You mean Rashid? That's a great way to tie in the comic book and movie continuities. As for an alternative codename (although Shortburst already sounds cool), how about any of the following: Cipher (a mathematical/computational science term which originated from the Arabic word
sifr
), Scuzzy (techie slang for SCSI), Shortwave (a type of antenna design), Reflector (another kind of antenna design), or Yagi (yet another antenna type).
As for Moroccan special operations-capable units... outside of their paratroopers, they don't really have anything that we in the West would traditionally consider as spec-ops. I'd like to imagine RoC Breaker (Abel Shaz) as having served with the
2e Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes
, which is where many Algerian and Moroccan fighters traditionally served in the French Foreign Legion. The Foreign Paratrooper Regiment used to be one of the most respected and feared rapid reaction units of the 20th century, although they aren't as well-known now with the Foreign Legion's downsized role in France's expeditionary operations (where they've been supplanted in many ways by the French Army's Special Forces Brigade).
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