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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: CINC Schwarzkopf
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

> From: ccmay@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Chris May)
> Who are the bodyguards in civilian clothing who accompany Schwarzkopf?  And
> I heard they are using AR-15's instead of M-16's; why would this be?  Are
> they from some private security consultant firm or something?
 
  Specially trained Military Police/CID and/or Counterintelligence/counter-
  terrorist agents - and they usually carry UZI's.

  This has come about with the advent of terrorist risks in Europe around
  '79-'82 (remember Dozier?) - and attacks on General Haig, then SAC Europe
  in Belgium.  In the field, two MP gunjeeps accompany commanding generals
  wherever they go - and a contingent of MPs (a division MP Company has a
  Security Platoon for this mission) protect his command post and private
  van.

  We began training our MPs and Security Agents with the local german
  counterterrorists teams specifically for VIP Security.  Eventually, though
  the general's didn't care for it - we maintained security patrols around
  their quarters and plainclothed, UZI-carrying personal security guards.
  
  Westmoreland, in Vietnam, had the biggest damn MP sergeant I've ever seen
  in my life as his personal guard - sum'bitch must've stood 6'7" and was
  a former defensive tackle for Chicago Bears.  

  You don't think that Schwarzkopf would have any CIVILIANS around him 
  do you?


  Mike Schmitt

                "You job is to get between the Man and the Bullet"
                               - briefing by Secret Service Agent