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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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07-12-2009, 02:17 PM
zuludelta
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updates for 12 July 2009:
Taurus & Sub-Zero
Design notes:
- Researching a background for Taurus took some doing. Referenced a Turkey-specific almanac (hard to find comprehensive material written in English) and had to go digging through some DoD sites I'm not entirely sure I'm supposed to be peeking in (Google Chrome was having a spaz attack with all the unverified certificate warnings coming off of the DoD's servers). What I wanted to know was if there's a precedent for a foreign military or police officer working with a Department of Defense-vetted E.O.D. or combat engineer organization. Turns out there is. In 2008, there were three foreign military personnel employed by the DoD's JIEDDO (Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization): 2 foreign officers (I couldn't find anything about their nationality and rank) and a UK sergeant major. The thing about foreign E.O.D. experts is that a good number of them just have tons of practical and tactical field experience, above and beyond what US military and federal police personnel have, just by virtue of the long-standing conflicts going on in their native lands. UK bomb experts, for example, have the collective experience of 40 years of counter-IED operations against the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The Turkish special operations police bomb squads (to which I've sourced Taurus) have 30 years of counter-IED experience against the PKK and other militant groups.
- Sub-Zero was pretty much a straight-up update, with PCU pants and an extreme cold weather mil-spec parka.
To read their full filecards, click on the Filecard Project link in my signature.
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