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Voshkod

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A fax arrives:

EXERCISE MESSAGE
HIDDEN HERALD​

ABOUT TIME YOU PAID ATTENTION. WE ARE SERIOUS. WE HAVE 27 HOSTAGES, TWO WOUNDED. WE WILL RELEASE THE WOUNDED IN EXCHANGE FOR FOOD AND WATER.

OUR DEMANDS FOLLOW:

TEN MILLION DUCATS
FIFTY AUTOMATIC RIFLES
TEN ANTI-TANK MISSILES
RELEASE OF ALL ALBONAN PRISONERS FROM EUTOPIAN PRISONS

YOU HAVE ONE HOUR TO RESPOND, OR WE START POPPING HOSTAGES

EXERCISE MESSAGE
HIDDEN HERALD​

At the bottom of the fax is a hand-written note:

Minister, I would like to compliment you and your Ministry on its quick, competent, and thorough response to this exercise. You may rest assured it will be noted in my report to the President.

/s/Levarge
 

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Loic edits a fax to the captors, and sends it one minute after the one hour deadline has expired.
We have recieved your fax with the information about the two wounded and the demands. We have relayed your demands to the Cabinet, as they are beyond the authorized authority of this Ministry. The demand regarding the prisoners may even be beyond the President's authority, due to the separation of powers here in the United Provinces of Eutopia, the judiciary has that power. However, I expect that the President could communicate with the Judiciary on that matter, but not instantly.

I am prepared to send an ambulance loaded with bottled water and food, staffed with a driver and one emergency medical technician, both of whom would be volunteers, to come in and collect the two wounded, and the four of them would return safely, assuming you are still agreeable such an exchange.

Please respond with any food preferences and dietary restrictions that we should keep in mind in placing and filling the food order.
 

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Loic prepares a fax to send promptly back to the captors.
We received your fax instructing us to "SEND THE AMBULANCE ALONE".
As we don't have remote controlled ambulances, there would need to be a driver. Therefore, we take it that you are objecting to the presence of the Emergency Medical Technician, whose job it is to see that the wounded are loaded properly on the stretcher or gurney, which if done improperly could kill the wounded, and to provide prompt care, such as IV's (drips) to treat shock, and stanch any bleeding that should develop as a result of being transported. We are each responsible for our actions, under the law here and in the eyes of the supreme being. If the wounded die due to improper transport of from not being cared for properly during transport, it will be a more severe crime than has been committed to date that will be listed in the indictment and on your head in the eyes of god. However, on the basis of your fax we will dispatch the ambulance with just a driver. If you change your mind, or if we misinterpreted your request, please fax us and we will have the driver pick up an EMT.

To avoid the possibility of misunderstanding, which you might interpret as potential 'trick', I will describe the instructions he will be operating under. When he approaches the entrance to the facility, the driver will turn about and enter in reverse, i.e. back into the facility. He will come to a stop. You can then dispatch some people to open the back of the ambulance, which will be unlocked, and pick up the food, water, and the two collapsible gurneys (with wheels that fold away) that will be in the back under the food and water. The driver will stay in the ambulance, in the drivers seat, with the engine running, the transmission in gear, and his hands on the steering wheel. If he hears gunfire, he will drive away immediately. Otherwise, he will wait until you have unloaded the food and water, loaded in the two wounded, closed the back door, and then knocked twice on the back to signal 'all clear' before driving away. Please do not be surprised that the ambulance driver will be wearing protective gear, including a red cross helmet, as you can imagine, volunteers for a mission like this are somewhat rare.

We will brief the driver and send the ambulance. The ambulance will be there within an hour.
 

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Loic yawns and rubs his eyes, he is getting too old to pull allnighters. He shows a copy of the faxes to the FLEA agent at his side and says, "After you brief the driver, have the ambulance stop by that supermarket that is open all night and pick up bottled water, bread, cold cuts, jam, peanut butter, and some apples and oranges. Assume there are 50 captors, so we need about 80 liters of water, 20 loaves of bread, 10 kilos of sliced meat, 5 kilos of cheese, nothing fancy, a case each of peanut butter and jam, and 80 pieces of fruit. They could have had something better if they had asked, but criminals are not usually aware of what is best for them. Also, pick up some porn from the file in the Uxbridge evidence room, (and don't pretend you don't know what I am talking about), and put it on top of the food. Have an EMT ride along until just before the facility comes into view and get out and wait there. I am going grab a quick nap, wake me if anything happens, and I mean anything."
 

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A phone call for the Minister. "Sir? You directed some agents to scout the Foss River valley north of Uxbridge. We have a report from the field that several large ships have docked at an abandoned LNG facility and are offloading troops and heavy vehicles."
 

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A call from Levarge. "Minister, it's come to my attention that you received an exercise message without the proper headers. You may rest assured that it was an exercise message, and that this mistake will not occur again. My regrets."
 

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MIDA Loic de Fourgéres prepares a press release, and thinks that this will cost him some votes, but that doing nothing could have cost some lives.
Commercial and general aviation operations had been suspended at New Lancaster City International Airport in connection with the incident reported in NEWSLINK, "FOREIGN NATIONAL ATTEMPTS TO INTERVENE IN GOVERNMENT TRAINING OPERATION", as well as an almost simultaneous, minor, apparently inadvertent security violation at the airport. Because we place a premium on traveller security we closed the airport until we could determine the situation. The airport is now being re-opened. There will be some delays as airlines work to get their planes repositioned and the subtantial backlog of delayed travellers are accomodated. Please call ahead to check with your airline about the status of your particular flight. We are advising travellers to get the airport three hours early, as the lines at security may be longer than usual. We regret any inconvenience that this may have caused you, but your safety remains our primary concern.
 

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Loic reviews the preliminary responses to the RFP for bulletproof vests for FLEA. He contacts purchasing.
"Of the bids we have received so far, buy 10 vests each for testing purposes from the St. Espritian company Armuriers du Roi and each of the two other low bidders. Get a variety of sizes. Take two vests from each lot and have ballistics test those with progressively larger caliber weapons at decreasing range. If either one fails the .38 caliber test at 2 meters, then return the lot as defective. If they pass, then distribute 6 to the volunteers who will wear them on all work shifts for the next month. We don't want something that is bullet proof that people won't wear, or rapidly degrades with use. What is the good of being bullet proof it is not sweat proof or laundry proof. After a month, rotate the vests between the teams so each person can directly compare the vests for comfort."
 

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A letter arrives from the Tilapian Embassy.

Senor Minister,

Our policia have run a check on the numbers and pictures you provided. All four passports are valid, and none have been reported stolen. Between the four men, there has been one traffic ticket reported, and no other offenses. All four are Tilapian citizens, and quite upstanding ones at that it would appear.

I would very much like to know why such persons are being placed under surveillance at Eutopia's airports, and hope it is not part of some larger profiling scheme based solely on the passenger's country of origin. I am hopeful that there was a solid probable cause for such investigation, and eagerly await your explanation.

Sincerely,
Ferdinand Paolos, Tilapian Ambassador to the United Provinces of Eutopia
 

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A letter arrives from the Eutopian Monarchist League:

The EML would like to request 200 permits for the use of automatic weapons for our security forces. Our security department intends to accept contracts for situations requiring a little bit more firepower. Nothing illegal, simply more dangerous jobs.
 

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Aldous Campbell said:
The EML mails a list of 42 individuals applying for weapons permits and delivers the 50 ducat application fees.
List of individuals for which the applications are made are forwarded for standard background checks (any arrest record, unpaid traffic tickets, etc.) plus an Interpol check.
 

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Loic calls the director of FLEA
"Hedgar, Loic here. I just read about the murders of the harbor master and and three guards down in Hurteau. Capital crimes are always a federal affair and this ministry also has responsibility for Navigation and Shipping, so it is doubly our responsibility. Who would have thought that we also need to issue bulletproof vests to harbor masters? Do you have any idea what the motive is for this crime?

Please make sure there are sufficient FLEA personnel looking into the matter. The victims are of English, French, and Spanish heritage, so please make sure that team includes the necessary language skills if you need to send some additional agents from out of the province to help. I will have to report to the cabinet about this matter sooner or later, so please keep me updated about your progress. I don't need it in a hurry, so please don't interpret this as a request to expedite matters. Please have your agents take the time to get to the bottom of this."
 

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MIDA Loic de Fourgéres calls up the head of purchasing.
"How did the bulletproof vest comfort, wearability, and cleaning tests go? Please retest whether the ones that were repeatedly cleaned still have the necessary stopping power. If the low price bidder proved acceptable on the tests, go ahead an order that one. If not, then if the second best priced one passed, then order that one, or third best if both of the two lowest priced ones were unacceptable. I know this was not in the budget, but I have cleared it with the cabinet."
 

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A brief note is delivered.

Minister, we've finished the testing on the ballistic vests. For penetration testing, we used standards developed by the American government. For wear testing, we employed your recommended technique, and then submitted the vests to penetration testing.

In summary, the results:

The Crusader Vest (Armuriers du Roi - St. Espirit): This vest model passed penetration testing, though one anomolous result must be noted. A test model suffered a full penetration in the front center of mass from a .40 pistol at five yards. On retest, a second vest did not suffer penetration. It is possible that the failed vest was incorrectly manufactured, or that the ballistic fabric was flawed. This vest model passed wear and cleaning tests, and a second penetration test. This was rated the most comfortable vest.

The Bulwark Vest (Intervests, United States): The vest model passed penetration testing, though two vests in seperate tests suffered penetration from close range small caliber rounds when struck near the edge of the fabric from an oblique angle. This is not an unusual circumstance for a penetration. This vest model passed wear and cleaning tests, and a second penetration test. This was rated as the least comfortable vest.

The Hussar Vest (Vestwerks, Germany): This vest model passed penetration testing in all circumstances. However, the ballistic fabric showed measurable degradation after long-term wear and cleaning. We conclude that this vest would need to be replaced more frequently than the other models tested. This was rated the second most comfortable vest.

The Bulwark Vest is the low bidder, but I have concerns that, given its low comfort rating, that it will not be worn.

/s/Hans Haan, RDTE Division

-Voshkod, as demi-mod
 

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Loic calls Hans Haan and thanks him for his thorough yet concise report.
"The St. Espritan vests, from Les Armuriers du Roi, if it is reliable, it would be the obvious choice, if not, then we would have to look at some other less competitive bidders. Tell you what, let us go ahead with the purchase, but run purchased vests through an x-ray machine to check for flaws before accepting them. It is better to get the vests in place sooner, rather than to risk more lives for longer while we are wait for and testing some other more expensive bidders vests."
 

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Loic walks out of his secure office carrying a note:
jacob-Lundgren said:
*A letter from ML arrives informing of his intentions to form a security company, more details will follow but to prepare to handle some new paperwork.
He hands it to an admin and asks them to open a file saying
"We should do nothing with this until some more paperwork arrives."
 
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