Re: Starting equipment

[Lauri Gardner <lauri_gardner@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- srydzews@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> What's missing?  Not much.  Rifle, submachinegun,
> armor--that's a lot of stuff!  All legal issues
> aside,
> purely from a financial perspective why would the
> company 
> buy one MP5SD for every operative?  It's not as if
> every 
> operative is going to simultaneously be on an
> operation 
> that would require such a thing, so wouldn't it be
> better 
> to have a few such weapons at 'headquarters' that
> are 
> issued when needed to whomever needs them?

The short answer to that is yes. There is the
advantage of having all your equipment in one central
place from where it is easy to give out equipment.

> If BE/BE is going to issue any weapon on a permanent
> basis
> to an employee, I'd imagine it would be the sig 228
> (or 
> whatever...a pistol), 

Most likely a Glock, since it is small and used by law
enforcement officials from around the world. 

and the heavier stuff would
> only come 
> out of the vault when an assignment warrants it--or
> the team 
> manages to convince someone that the assignment
> warrants it :) 
> 
> But that's all just my opinion.  
> 
> If you want to talk about what's missing, how about
> a GPS?  What about a laptop computer?  Maybe a bug 
> detector/pink noise generator (do those things 
> really work)?  SecureID card?  Digital camera?

 
I would expect that each BE/BE operative would be
given  a desk whether shared or not, a computer on
that desk, as well as a keycard, and depending on what
kind of special position the person has a gun, which
probably needs to be signed out, as well as having
gone through a course (combat firearms course
maybe?)to allow for a concealed weapons permit.

Digital cameras, white noise generators, laptops have
to be singed out seperately. Some of these may end up
on loan for longer times than just mission to mission.
Each Cell most likely has yearly budget and profit
accountability that has to be maintained.

--
Lauri Gardner

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