Wheel scary: Chinese anti-terror police practise killing drills on scooters

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 11:50 PM on 02nd July 2008

Chinese elite anti-terror police officers are wheeling into action ahead of next month’s Beijing Olympics on two-wheeled scooters.

Members of the country’s armed police unit practised on the Segway models that have been re-named ‘Anti-Terror Assault Vehicles’ in the eastern province of Shandong.

Killers: Despite the strange appearance of the scooters, the Chinese ant-terror police are lethal in action

Officials have bought 100 Segways and painted some in military camouflage to patrol airports and sporting venues during the Games.

In one drill, police posing as terrorists held ten badminton audience members hostage, ’shooting dead’ four ‘hijackers’, capturing two and defusing a mock car bomb.

The exercise was to test the province’s emergency response and involved 1,500 people.

The Segway was the brainchild of American Dean Kamen, who claimed at its 2001 launch that it would make the car obsolete in congested cities. It has since been the object of some derision, however.

The two-wheeled self-balancing machine - powered by an electric motor - allows users to travel as fast as 12.5mph while standing up.

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An Afghan soldier takes a break as coalition forces search for Taliban fighters in the village of Sanjaray in Zhari district early April 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

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He is at Gitmo sporting a beard.  LOL.  -Head Jundi

Thanks to Doug for hooking me up with this photo he found at Reuters. -Head Jundi

A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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I took this photo back in 2006, while working the front gate at our site in Basra. These guys were very proud of their freshly killed lizard. Anyway, I thought it was some good Feral Jundi material. LOL -Head Jundi

March 28, 2008

By Head Jundi

     In this review, I want to talk about the new chin strap that I bought for my RBR Helmet.  For those of you who wear a helmet from time to time, you probably appreciate as much comfort as you can get out of that brick you wear on your head.  Last summer, I wore that helmet a few times for convoy operations, and the chin strap system that comes with the RBR Helmet is really not that comfortable or easily adjustable.  Nor is the padding system in the helmet that great, and I will save that for a different review.  With that said, I decided to try and find a better chin strap, so I could upgrade my helmet.

     Usually what I do, in order to find new equipment or get new ideas about equipment, is to do my searches on Google, and the pertinent forums that talk about what the guys are using out there.  One of my favorite places on the Internet, for gear reviews, is Lightfighter.net .  There is quite a crew on that forum, and they really like to get down to business on reviewing equipment and talking shop.  I usually just read through all the posts, and try to make my determinations based off the various replies about equipment that is being used and liked.  I try to find reviews from guys who are actually in the field, and using  that stuff, because invariably, you stumble upon reviews from guys who really don’t know what they are talking about.  Hey, it’s the Internet, and you have to learn how to search out the good stuff.

     One of the posts on light fighter, under the helmets and body armor section, talked about the latest gizmo’s and doo dads from the 2007 Shot Show.  One of those items was a new chin strap system, produced by a new company called Ops Core.  Now I have stumbled upon all sorts of chin strap systems out there, but this Ops Core chin strap system really caught my eye.  The guys on the forum seemed to like it as well.

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     So after stumbling upon this new, dang fangled chin strap system, I now had some search ‘ammo’, and started looking for a cheap price and any other reviews.  I could not find any, and Ops Core, at the time, was the only ones selling said item, and the Light Fighter crew were the only ones talking about it.  So I stuck with the info from Light Fighter, and absorbed it all.  And I tell you what, I was sold.  Here is the chinstrap I was sold on, and this is what the company had to say about it.

I wanted to post this, because this is right up my ally.  As a smokejumper, we did these kind of operations all the time for resupply.  So this concept is really not new.  Air America used to do these type of operations during the Southeast Asia conflict, and Blackwater USA Aviation is providing the same kind of services now a days in Afghanistan.  The aircraft they use are CASA 212’s, which are the same aircraft that a few of the smokejumper bases use out there.  -Head Jundi

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An innovative approach to combat logistics: low cost, low altitude airborne resupply in Afghanistan

Michael Peterman
History has shown that without combat service support and sustainment operations, the warfighting capability of any unit is certainly diminished, and potentially leads to interruption of combat operations. Hence, the ability to develop innovative, adaptive combat service support sustainment processes remains a strong principle within contingency operations.

The 782nd Brigade Support Battalion (BSB) has brought such innovation to the modern battlefield of Afghanistan. Due to the expertise and initiative of the Soldiers of the 782nd BSB, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, the Army has a new aerial resupply capability in the form of the Thestral “Speedball” Low Cost, Low Altitude (LCLA) Aerial Delivery System.

The LCLA program is a new and innovative means of aerial delivery currently being employed throughout portions of Afghanistan. The program differs from the Air Force high velocity container delivery system (CDS) drops in that bundles are smaller in size and delivered at a very low altitude from a smaller civilianstyle aircraft with almost pinpoint accuracy–usually within 20 meters of the established point of impact (PI).