Posted on 10/27/2009 3:55:17 PM PDT by Flavius
Armed officers in full battle gear will be scattered throughout the Bay Area this weekend, rescuing hostages, fighting bank robbers and quelling terrorism at the Oakland Airport, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the NASA Ames Research Center and 22 other high profile sites.
There will be the sound of gunfire and blasts - all part of Urban Shield, one of the biggest domestic terrorism drills in the country. The $1 million, two-day event begins Saturday and will test the training of 27 crack teams from throughout the state, elsewhere in the country and the world.
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Amazing.
Reminds me of February ‘08 when Mayor Finkbeiner of Toledo, Ohio forbid Marines from training in the city after the exercises had been approved by other city officials.
This is what happens when we permit local LEOs to become paramilitary organizations aimed at protecting the emerging tyranny of our corrupt political class.
Pretty troubling how the country has changed away from the spirit of liberty since the Twin Towers attack. We need to call off the dogs for goodness sakes. All they do is esclate and esclate.
When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you’ll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Brixton
An appropriate name for an anti-terror unit?
Are we missing something?
Urban?
“For the first time in the three-year history of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department-sponsored exercise, there will be a foreign team of officers taking part and international observers. An eight-member team representing the French National Police’s Research, Assistance, Intervention, and Dissuasion unit will compete.
The exercise is a non-stop, 48-hour event meant to test a team’s endurance and equipment in high stress situations such as shootouts, nuclear facility threats and airline hijackings. Each team is graded on their performances and at the end of the weekend, the top three teams are recognized.
Amaury de Hauteclocque, chief of the French RAID team, said although there are opportunities in Europe to cross train with other countries’ forces, there is nothing like Urban Shield, with 25 realistic scenarios at on-site locations.
“There are situations in the States we don’t have in France, like a mass murder in a university,” Hauteclocque said. “Fortunately we don’t have them in France at this time, but we don’t have a reason not to expect this to happen.”
It’s also an opportunity to improve relations between the two countries, he said.
RAID is a highly specialized team. Only one in 20 applicants are chosen to become a member, he said, adding that applicants must have five years experience with the French national police and must pass physical and psychological tests to be accepted.
The visiting team members were each chosen for being the best in specialties required for the exercise, Hauteclocque said.
Romulad Muller, police attache with the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., who accompanied the team, described them as the French “Dream Team.” Members began training six months ago to learn how to combat the stress and fatigue they will face. “
Naturally. There's a whole lot of Democrat voters in those concentrated parasite nests ("cities").
last paragraph;
Who or what are the ‘corporate sponsers’ ?
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