In two days, Irving will leave for Washington to accept the appointment of the rapid response team. In the next two days, Irving will stay at home to spend time with his family.
Things about the quick response team did not need to be kept strictly confidential. His mother and Amanda were already used to Owen's life of going through life and death every day. They just told him to pay attention to safety. Owen originally thought his mother would object, but his mother didn't say anything.
Owen called Brian. He originally wanted to get together with him, but unfortunately, a big star friend of the soul singer Julia Andrews was going to go on a national tour, and Julia strongly recommended Brian.
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Brian is somewhat famous in this circle. After all, Julia's real deeds are in front of her, and Julia spared no effort to help recommend. Many stars are willing to cooperate with Brian. Owen is also very happy for Brian.
Since becoming PMC, Sam and others have also given Brian their business in the entertainment industry. However, Brian does not want to do anything big. He usually only takes on the job of personal bodyguard, so that he only needs to be busy for a short period of time.
, there is still a lot of time to spend with Kem.
Brian was not in Los Angeles, so Irving called Sam and others again. These old guys have become prosperous since they got through the connections in the US military and got a PMC.
They took a lot of orders from the US military and made a lot of money. According to Sam's boast, he often played golf with the army's top brass and had a very good relationship with the top brass.
After chatting with Jim and Wright for a few more words, Owen hung up the phone. Almost none of his friends were in regular jobs, so it was really not easy to get together.
During dinner, Owen met McCall, whom he had not seen for a long time. He looked as upright and peaceful as ever, with a strong sense of bookishness about him, but the things they talked about were not bookish. Owen knew that McCall was a member of Black Ops before.
, although I don’t know exactly what I do, but I am definitely experienced in this area.
"What do you think of our membership configuration?"
How could Irving miss the opportunity to ask for advice when there were ready-made masters, and poured out the doubts in his heart one by one like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.
"From your description, your quick reaction team is more like a simplified special forces than a spy team. This is different from the CIA. Most of the missions of the CIA are to obtain intelligence, so the configuration of the team is biased.
Due to technology and logistics, there are very few real field personnel and few opportunities to engage in combat.
There is basically no head-to-head approach in the way the spy team operates, but you are different. You should be more involved in combat missions, going deep into hostile areas to capture terrorist leaders. The combat environment may range from cities to wilderness, so
The combat personnel equipped are very large and must be all-rounders, and snipers and precision shooters are indispensable."
Owen nodded. What McCall said was basically consistent with his idea. Initially, his idea was to establish a team similar to the Mission: Impossible team and take the intellectual route. However, after these two cooperation operations with the SEALs, he found that this way
It doesn't work at all.
The nature of their work means that he often has to fight head-on, and his style of conduct is more inclined to special forces. They strike quickly, accurately and with precision, and evacuate quickly after completing the target.
That's why Irving came up with the idea of poaching Swat. Swat has good combat capabilities and a tacit understanding of cooperation. More importantly, he has been in Swat and is familiar with everyone's abilities and playing styles, and they have experienced life and death together.
There is also Colombia's experience, there is absolute trust, which can directly form combat effectiveness.
It's a pity that everyone has their own ambitions, and only one Monica is willing to come and help him. Irving also thought about the sniper problem McCall mentioned. The first choice is of course Swagger. He is the strongest Irving has ever seen.
There is no such thing as a sniper.
The only drawback is his identity.
"Oh, I also thought of something else..."
McCall suddenly said again, and Irving listened intently.
"Your team will definitely perform missions abroad with high frequency in the future, so the problem of foreign languages must be solved. You must know that members of the special forces of any country need to master at least two foreign languages and be proficient in one of them..."
Owen has not thought about this problem, but it is very realistic. Owen himself only knows a little bit of French, but Monica knows a lot of foreign languages, including German, French, Russian, and Swedish. Her nickname of IQ is not white.
Yep, he is indeed a genius in learning. As for how many foreign languages he knows, Owen doesn't know.
"But this is simple. There is a crash course. You find a teacher to teach you. It doesn't need to be too advanced, as long as you can communicate normally. At the level of an ordinary person, a person can master a foreign language in about ten days...
"
"Okay, I get it now."
Irving secretly made a note of this, and after returning to Washington, he arranged for foreign language teachers to conduct crash training. Among other things, Arabic must be mastered. The entire Middle East is a hotbed of terrorism, and they will definitely appear in the Middle East frequently in the future.
, I am at a disadvantage if I don’t understand Arabic.
"Is there anything else?"
"The other thing is intelligence and logistical support. There's nothing much to say about intelligence. What we fight in war is intelligence. The more accurate your intelligence is, the higher the success rate. On the contrary, wrong or delayed intelligence may kill you. I miss you about this.
You should have some experience, right?"
Owen nodded. Indeed, they had been going smoothly during the recent Operation Scepter of Light. However, when they arrived, they found that the VX nerve gas had been transferred long ago. The only good thing is that the other party did not know that they were coming. Otherwise, if Chechnya had
The armed forces set a trap for them, and if they can't figure it out, they will have to tell them where it is.
"Logistics support, I think you should cooperate with the military. In fact, as far as I know, the NSA and CIA also cooperate with the military, and only the military has the ability to quickly deploy in various places around the world..."
Owen understands this very well. Because the U.S. military has aircraft carrier battle groups from all over the world working with the E2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft, it has a complete God's perspective in the battle, and the information held by both sides is fundamentally asymmetrical.
In most of Owen's previous operations, he arrived at the target location by military aircraft. It seems that only the CIA has some capabilities in this regard. They charter special planes to travel around the world all year round.
One after another, the two chatted for several hours. After dinner, the two of them chatted on the terrace with teacups in hand. Mother and Amanda knew that they were talking about business and did not come to disturb them.
Jack Bauer gave him the greatest authority regarding the quick reaction team, but Owen was not very clear about many directional things. He had always played the role of a team member before, and he did not have a clear concept of what the captain needed to consider.
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Talking to McCall like this really felt like an enlightenment, and many vague concepts became clear. Irving had already filled up his attribute points in terms of combat, but in other aspects McCall taught him a good lesson.
Intelligence, logistics, armed equipment, research and development of special equipment, personal skills, how to combine members' personalities and characteristics, McCall talked about a lot of aspects, and Owen couldn't understand them all at once, so he could only cram them down first, but he couldn't.
I don’t admit it, but this old CIA does have something in his belly.