Early the next morning, Irving arrived at the FBI office building in Los Angeles ahead of the scheduled time.
Yesterday, he had made an appointment with Carlos at the party to go rock climbing together today, but Jack Bauer made an impromptu call, canceled his leave, and informed him to come to the FBI early this morning for training.
Irving could only regretfully make another appointment with Carlos. As for the specific training today, Irving didn't know. The phone call only said that they wanted to improve their combat effectiveness.
At this moment, Owen was waiting at the door. Jack Bauer hadn't arrived yet. Owen turned on the radio out of boredom and was looking for some program to kill the time. A car parked next to him and it turned out to be Tony.
"Hi, Tony."
"Isn't Jack here yet?"
"No, do you know what is going on?"
Owen stopped listening to the show and put the car away with Tony. The two of them stood at the door of the building waiting for Jack. Owen took the opportunity to inquire about the specific situation.
It turns out that as the CTU's work progressed during this period, the casualty rate of the field team has remained high. First Tony, then Joshua, and other agents were injured in the operations in the previous two days. Eight detectives from the field team were injured.
Most of the staff, except for the newcomer Irving, were injured.
In addition to what happened on Qisi Island this time, even though it was the seals who really contributed in the battle, even though the situation that time was relatively special, and even though the terrorists in the city simply couldn't have that kind of firepower, Jack Bauer still had to deal with it.
We now have a general understanding of the combat capabilities of terrorists.
CTU has strong information collection and intelligence analysis capabilities, so it must also be equipped with corresponding force, so Jack decided to do two things. First, strengthen the combat effectiveness of field department personnel, and second, recruit stronger soldiers to supplement the CTU's SWAT team.
A car stopped in front of the two men, and Jack Bauer arrived.
Jack Bauer parked the car and the three of them followed each other into the FBI building. Owen had already learned that Jack wanted to throw the people from their field team to the FBI's SWAT team for training for a period of time to strengthen the field agents' head-on combat.
ability in this area.
As for why it was the FBI's SWAT, Tony had explained it to him. He was an FBI agent before the CTU was established and was very familiar with the FBI's situation. There was only one reason. The FBI's SWAT was the strongest in Los Angeles.
Before the emergence of the CTU, counter-terrorism was the responsibility of the FBI. In order to deal with various extreme situations, the FBI reorganized their SWAT team.
All new SWAT team members are recruited from outside. Recruiters must have service experience in special forces, preferably have participated in actual combat, and each team member is required to have specialties.
This immediately raised the combat effectiveness of SWAT by several levels. Think about it, the new team members are all retired special forces, and some are even retired members of famous forces such as the US Navy SEALs and the Israeli Kingfisher. How can the combat effectiveness still be maintained?
How bad it is.
Of course, conditions have improved, but personnel may not be easy to recruit. After all, retired members of the special forces are very popular, and they basically don’t have to worry about finding a job. Many wealthy people are willing to pay a lot of money to hire them as bodyguards. Security and mercenary companies are very optimistic about these people.
These are all high-paying professions.
In comparison, the FBI SWAT's annual salary is only between 80,000 and 100,000, which is not a particularly good salary. Therefore, it is not possible to make all of them members of the special forces, which is not possible yet.
However, this annual salary is already the highest in the SWAT circle in Los Angeles. Neither the police force nor CTU SWAT can get this amount.
Taking this into account, the FBI has appropriately lowered the requirements, but the minimum requirement is that they must have worked in the police SWAT and have experience in similar crisis management.
In addition, a very good thing about the FBI is that they always take care of their field team agents, and agents and SWAT members can transfer to each other.
In the FBI, some agents like to be tough and tough and switch to SWAT. There are also SWAT members who feel that they are more suitable for detective work and so on and switch to field agents. This is not surprising at all.
After entering the FBI building, Tony took them to the director's office, knocked on the door, and after receiving a positive reply, Tony and the three opened the door and entered.
"Oh, Tony, it's been so long."
"Hello, Chief Wommack."
"Oh no, to hell with this damn director, call me Wommack, like before."
Behind the desk was a Caucasian man with a mustache. He exchanged pleasantries with Tony, then looked at Jack Bauer and Irving next to him, then stretched out his hand and said, "I'm Jim Wommack.
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"Jack Bauer."
"Steve Irwin."
The two shook hands with Womack respectively.
Wommack nodded and said with approval: "Director Ball, we finally meet today. You are a celebrity in Los Angeles."
Jack Bauer nodded, noncommittal at Wommack's compliment.
Wommack wasn't angry either. Maybe he really knew a lot about Jack Bauer and knew what this guy was like. Then he went on to say: "Tony told me about your matter yesterday. There is no problem at all. Since CTU
After the establishment, our pressure has been reduced a lot. I know very well how dangerous your work is. You are doing the right thing and you must be responsible for the lives of the boys..."
"I must emphasize here that our SWAT team has just undergone a new reorganization some time ago. All members are highly educated and have specific expertise. The current commander is Alyssa Cohen, an Israeli Kingfisher special
Retired members of the army, the rest include veterans who have experienced many overseas battlefields, and some are geniuses in electronic engineering. I believe your people will learn a lot..."
Wommack boasted a lot, but Jack Bauer still had no expression on his face, but Irving was moved when he heard it.
It's surprising that there are people from the Israeli Kingfisher in the FBI's SWAT.
The Israeli "Kingfisher" Special Forces, No. 5101, is a special forces formed by Israel after accepting the lessons of the Yom Kippur War. It is one of the best special forces in the Air Force. Its powerful combat capabilities rank among the top in Israel.
three.
This unit is often sent by the Israeli Ministry of Defense to perform secret missions throughout the Middle East and is extremely mysterious.
Irving's expression pleased Wommack, and just as he was about to brag a few more words, Jack Bauer interrupted.
"Thank you for your help, but Director Womack, we have just been attacked by a terrorist attack and are really busy now. Now that Tony has expressed our intentions to you, can we get started?"
Jack Bauer's style is as direct as ever.
"Oh, of course."
Womack picked up the phone on his desk and dialed a number, then said a few words. After putting down the phone, he said to the three of them: "No problem, everything is arranged. You can just go to the SWAT training base.
Not far from here, in..."
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After leaving the building, neither Jack Bauer nor Tony had the intention to accompany him to SWAT. They were very busy and had to rush back to CTU immediately.
Jack Bauer's special visit today was obviously just a formality. After all, the CTU and the FBI are two separate structures. If you want help from others, you still have to show your attitude.
As for why Irving was the only one this time, Jack also gave a brief explanation.
The work of the CTU is very busy, so it is impossible for the field team to conduct comprehensive training for all employees. They can only come one by one. Because Owen is a newcomer and does not have a fixed case at hand, he naturally became the first one.