Azseth

Operation 8

Thank you. Working on the post now.

Az

Operation 8

Hey gang. Sorry, I had a death in the family and funeral and was out of pocket. Tomorrow I'll have information up about what's going on.

@dutchbag you can add a bit more to your bios in the meantime.

Az

Operation 8

Name: Jon Erikson (Staff Sergeant, United States Marine Corps).
Age: 27.
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Brown.
Weight: 195 pounds.

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Bio: Jon joined the Marine Corps several years after graduating high school. Immediately he took to it and even though he enlisted as an administrative clerk, he attached to and deployed with an Expeditionary Unit, seeing combat for 2 tours (one to Somalia and one to Iraq). At the end of his first 4 year enlistment, he decided to raise the bar and opted to go into Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance and did another 2 deployments (one to Afghanistan and another to Iraq). While his military career took off, his personal life plummeted as his wife left him during his fourth deployment. Because he was deployed at the time, he lost access to his wife and kids and rarely sees either.

Jon’s childhood was nothing traumatic by any means. His parents divorced early in his teens and he moved with his mother while essentially becoming estranged from his father. After graduating high school, he worked and took some college classes until one day he was convinced to talk to a recruiter by his girlfriend at the time. The rest is history as they say.

He met his wife before his first deployment and they were married before his second, settling down in California after some time in South Carolina.

Additionally, Jon has worked on and off for the past 2 years directly for and with the CIA over seas.

Pertinent combat information:
6+ years in the Marine Corps
4 Combat tours
Marine Corps weapon and close quarter training
Marine Corps Force Recon training
Army Jump School
Scout Sniper Training
3 years in Krav Maga training (currently training)
SERE training

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Name: Ricardo Emmanual (Police Sergeant and Detective)
Age: 30.
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Hazel.
Weight: 170 pounds.

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Bio: Ricardo has been battling South American and Mexican cartels and gangs his entire life. Life in Rosarita Mexico was not bad when compared to many of the crime ridden holes in Mexico, but it was by no means good. At an early age, he was involved in fights and while he never joined a gang, he did commit crimes on many occasions and was friends with several members of various gangs. He avoided any criminal action because police only really cared about big time busts depending on what the mood was on organized crime at particular points, or because cops were more interested in shaking down criminals for money than they were prosecuting them.

His mother and father both worked at a large restaurant near a high traffic area, so they had steady income and Ricardo was actually able to go to school and a friend of his father owned a boxing gym near them and he was allowed to train so long as he helped maintain the place with the owner.

After graduating high school, he made money by boxing and also working at the gym and with his parents. When he was 19 his life changed entirely when his parents were hit by a construction vehicle and injured. His mother put into a coma and died 3 years later while his father was paralyzed from the waist down, became blind in one eye, and suffered nerve damage. While Ricardo wanted nothing more than a simple life, he was forced into a situation where he had to make enough money to pay for his parents medical bills and care. In Mexico, there are generally 3 options at that point:
1. Try to sneak to America and make enough money to support family.
2. Join the Cartels or gangs.
3. Join the militarized Federal Police.
Ricardo chose the third.

Over the next 8 years, his actions are extremely varied. He worked for the police but did cross training with US, Canadian, and French militaries. For about a year at one point, he was working with local police in southern Mexico as an imbedded Federal Agent in a major cartel until the Cartel’s top 5 members were arrested, tried, and convicted. After once again returning to the Federal Police, he and several other agents worked with the CIA in several places in South America, working to overthrow at least one government and to destabilize oil assets in another.

The most recent two years of his life were spent working with a Joint Border Task Force that involved Mexico, the US, and Canada. If border patrol could be considered a police force, JBTF was like the SWAT team. They were the group that kicked down doors, did surveillance on, and all but went to war with illegal, and often violent, organizations that navigated the border from illegal activities. Similar to ICE agents, JBTF agents are generally greenlit by Cartels for gangs with the promise of high payouts for successful kills. His own role in the JBTF was slightly different as he once again was used to infiltrate organizations, live the life of those he was actually trying to bring down, and it was not easy. He was authorized to sell weapons, drugs, move people illegally, sanction illegal activity and bride officials all in the interest of bringing down criminals not respecting the borders.

Pertinent combat information:
Federal Officer Training.
Tactical Breaching.
Wiretapping, hacking, and espionage tactics from the CIA and FBI.
Years of intel and counter intel and deep cover infiltration tactics by CIA.
United States SERE training.
4 months of training with Marine HET teams (Human exploitation).
Close to 2 years total of deep undercover assignments.
Two time country boxing champion.
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Helpful and commonly used terms:
UA: Unauthorized absence. This is an actual crime under military jurisdiction if you are not to you designated and/or assigned place at the assigned time, but it is often used casually, meaning you just don't know where a person is at. "Where's Jon?" "Uh, guess he went UA."
Weapons free/hot: This means that from this point forward, any body that you encounter not with you is an enemy and can be engaged immediately with lethal force. This may seem like a soldier's wet dream, but there are 2 realities: you are in a place where literally EVERYONE is hostile, meaning you are immersed in enemies, and second, you may come a point where you engage someone who is obviously not hostile towards you, but you must assess whether to engage with lethal force. This may be a child, a man in a wheelchair, a pregnant woman. Further more, in situations, there is nothing STOPPING that child, man in a wheelchair, or pregnant woman from BEING an actual hostile.
RP: Rendezvous point. This is a designated place to meet with instructions.
HVT: High Value Target. This generally refers to a person, but on occasion can be used to describe an object.
Can'c: Pronounced like "cane-k-d" and short for cancelled. "Hey man, the brief was canc'd, let's go drink."
CAS: Pronounced "kah-z" or "kah-s" and meaning close air support.
Ma Deuce: Slang for MA-2, a fully automatic, 50. caliber, heavy machine gun.
Exfil: Exfiltration or extraction point. "Send me the position for our exfil so we can leave!"
Click: One kilometer. "We're 3 clicks from our target."
Mic: Pronounced "Mike," meaning minute. "I'm getting my gear, gimme two mics."
Top: First Sergeant, generally in a Marine or Army unit. "Hide the liquor, Top's coming!"
Butter Bar: A derogatory term for a fresh Lieutenant. Derived from their rank insignia being a bronze bar, looking like a stick of butter. "We're lost because Butter Bar over there can't read a damn map."
ROE: Rules of engagement. This is the rules for what types of force are allowed and when.
Ninja Punch: Slang for Non-judicial punishment. This is for offenses handled by the military via non-Court Martial. "Dude, did you hear about Rodriguez. He got hit with the ninja punch for showing up drunk to PT!"
Frag: Either referring to an M67 hand grenade ("Dude, toss a frag!") or telling someone to utilize an M67 ("Corporal, frag that room, now!").
Bang: Similar to FRAG, it references a flashbang grenade (also stated as BANG).
Danger Close: This is generally used in 2 instances. The first is when ordinance or indirect fire is being used at a distance that is not normally advised--so much so it may injure the individuals it is intended to help. The other instance is stating that hostile enemies are in an EXTREMELY close proximity, meaning perhaps the other side of a tree a person is taking cover behind.

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Name: Marek Yolish. (Sergeant, Australian Airborne Army)
Age: 25.
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Brown.
Weight: 210 pounds.

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Bio: Marek is the son of a Polish Army officer and a mother that is part Australian, part indigenous Australian. He was raised mainly by his mother in Australia as his father was gone most of the time serving in Poland. His father did visit as often as possible however, and the family was very well off. Marek also had a younger brother and older sister. They were raised in a middle class area of Perth and Marek’s mother worked at a car dealership doing clerical services. During High School, Marek started gravitating towards the idea of becoming a police officer while his brother debated joining the Australian Army. The sister ended up becoming an accountant and moving to the United States after college, and several days after the departure, Marek’s father and brother were killed in a boating accident.

Marek and his mother grieved but got through it, although his mother was never really the same after that. Within the year, she died of pneumonia and Marek was left with nothing as most of his mother’s family was not known to him because they avoided him for being an “outsider,” something the family struggled through since the marriage.

Marek joined the Army at 18, directly out of high school and ended up serving in the airborne infantry. After serving his 5 years with one deployment to Afghanistan, he rotated home and joined the Australian Tactical Response Team, (ATRT or “A-tart”) which is the equivalent to SWAT, but with broader jurisdiction. He did this for 2 years before activating himself back up into the Army after the Sydney Church Bombings, opting back into the Airborne. Not long after however, he was interviewed in Syria during his deployment and selected to apply for Operation 8.

Pertinent combat information:
Marksmanship training with assault rifle and pistol.
Army Parachute Training.
Demolition expert (assembling and disarming).
SCUBA insertion.
Blackbelt in Brazilian Jui-jitsu.

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NPCs and Key Characters:

Lt Col Bitterns

Name: Peter Bitterns, Commanding Officer (Lieutenant Colonel, US Army).
Age: 46.
Hair: Black (graying).
Eyes: Brown.
Weight: 190 pounds.

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Bio: Bitterns had a distinguished career in the US army, enlisting at 21 and becoming an officer 8 years later. He has served in several conflicts and wars and was distinguished, both in combat as a fighter, and as a leader issuing orders and commands. Eventually he was selected to fight in Delta Force and worked with other FBI and CIA units operating at various capacities.

Bitterns is hardnosed and direct and while it may seem some times that he isn’t attached to those who serve under him, it’s very much the opposite. He will go to great lengths to support and do what he can to support his men and women, but will also be the first to bring down the metaphorical hammer if necessary.

Bitterns has worked with government agencies on most every continent and was selected to lead Operation 8 because of his understanding about both what was going on in the world and what was expected. The governments who put together Operation 8 have almost no hand on what happens and are not briefed on what is happening, what is going to happen, and why whatever has happened DID happen. Any communications between Bitterns and agents “never happened” and even if Bitterns is given instructions urging, or even ordering him to take action, it is done at his discretion.

Lt Col Myong

Name: Edi Myong, Executive Officer (Lieutenant Colonel, South Korean Army).
Age: 42.
Hair: Black.
Eyes: Brown.
Weight: 180 pounds.

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Bio: Edi is a fierce man who is passionate about what he does. This is something of a family tradition as his family has been a part of the South Korean military since its founding and was actually fighting against North Korea and China since before the split of Korea into two parts. His father was an enlisted member of the South Korean navy and met his mother early in his first enlistment as she was a dental technician who worked on the base. Edi was a handful, constantly getting into fights and trouble with the law. At one point, while his father was on a year long deployment, it was decided that it was necessary to send Edi to his uncle’s in Japan. He was there for just over a year at the age of 14 and it changed his life immediately. His Uncle and Aunt had a lot more time to be active in his life and at that age, it was exactly what Edi needed and was lacking at home.

The year of regimented and scheduled life worked wonders and it was not long after that Edi decided to also join the military, but unlike his father, he joined the Army. Early in his army career, which started as a comms operator, he worked with local and federal police to fight terrorism and organized crime. Additionally, he served in 2 combat tours outside of the country, one to Iraq and the other to Kosovo. A large reason for his success is he had no family, no direct family that is, to side track his focus and motivation.

Not long after that, he decided to jump up into the ranks of officers, and about that time, his father ended his own military service to due several injuries that he received while active. He would serve as an operations officer throughout his career from then on out, often working with and reporting to civilians and politicians, so he learned to play that game early on. While tact and political correctness were a big part of climbing the rank system in many places in the west, in South Korea, results spoke. It wasn’t until recently that things started to shift and get more politically orientated and Edi was feeling the heat from this, so it was a timely blessing when he was approached about potentially helping to run Operation 8, which he accepted.

Operation 8

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Az

Operation 8

Operation 8. This unit was put together to be able to handle high risk operations in situations and areas where the atmosphere is extremely volatile or sensitive. This can be removal of assets from foreign governments, defending assets from hostile forces, gathering of information, espionage, or even assassinations. Operation 8 deploys knowing that most of its missions involve them being a deniable asset, which means their identities are masked and no one will ever know or talk about where they died, what they were doing, and the government will not acknowledge anything to do with what is going on.

Additionally, Operation 8 will act in an open capacity. Sometimes they will act as security or advisors, sometimes they will help escort sensitive items on convoys or be used to with traditional military in securing targets. At this level, they are officially attached to the appropriate unit and not operating DIRECTLY or PUBLICLY under the unit of Operation 8.

Important notes

A few things:
1. This RP is set in the mid 90s. The reason and importance is that military technology and capabilities were fairly modern, but not all-intrusive. We had satellites, but more limited than today, comms were slightly less dependable, and the most important thing is that technology hadn’t yet crept into our lives so that pretty much everything is watched almost instantly. This is a two way street in that it makes it easier to “get away” with things, or keep them out of the eyes of the public, but it also makes communicating with people less dependable and more limited.

2. I am not one for historical accuracy or factual consistency. While the world is there, it’s ok for example, to say there was a war in South America, or Europe that didn’t happen in real life, that your character was a part of. I may say there was a hostage situation by some group that never existed in some city that never existed in some country that DOES exist.

3. I recommend multiple characters and entertaining the option of having a few die.

4. NPCs are going to be created and eventually, I’ll be making short bios for them, just to retain facts and stuff of that nature.

5. This group should be somewhat diverse ethnically. It’s easier to operate as an arms dealer in Asia or Africa if you have someone who looks the part.

6. For post quality, I don’t care. I assume you can RP at an “advanced” pace, but the reality of it is that the more action, dialogue, and character interaction that is going on, generally the SHORTER your posts will be as you wait on others to react and/or reply. Don’t feel pressured to make every post into a chapter. Just have the scene progress.

Operation 8

“Ladies. Gentlemen. Welcome to Operation 8. I am not going to waste time talking about our importance, what we do, or why we do it. This isn’t some welcome aboard pep talk. That was all a part of why you decided to be here, you know these things. First I’ll talk about what our goal is, in the most general sense. In short: We’re changing the landscape of how we operate, we being the countries that vie for peace and order. We will not be securing resources for the financial benefit of a leader. We will not be destabilizing countries to open way for financial mining. That’s all going on.

We are changing the landscape at this level. We need enemies of peace to know that when something just is to be done, and our militaries and politics will not allow it, or heads of state spend months jockeying for position and that leaves people open to harm--something will be done.

You will not be doing this for praise, or awards, or to see yourself in the paper. Some of you will die and never be spoken of. Your families will be told you died in an exercise, or in combat fighting for your respective country. That is what you signed on for.

While this does sound noble, rest assured, it is not going to be easy. Some of you will be embedding yourselves among the people you despise to do deplorable things. You’ll be in places you loathe, in conditions that are awful, sometimes doing things for reasons you are not, nor will ever be, aware of. Contact may be limited to the point you doubt what you’re doing or wonder if you’ve gone too far.

Nothing I can say now or then will make those thoughts or realities go away. So. I won’t speak of it.

In closing, we’re a team and on the subject of teams, I want to introduce a handful of people. First, myself. I’m Lieutenant Colonel Pete Bitterns, United States Army. In short, I’m calling the shots, you all answer to me. All orders come from me.

Second in command and field officer is Major Ed Myong. He will speak for me, be informed and involved with decision making and debriefs, and also occasionally deploy on ground when necessary. He is a Major with the South Korean Military and has been involved with police actions there as well.

Next, we have out intel officer, Lieutenant Jain Ogranda, South African Defense Force.

This is Lieutenant Yuri Bragamov, formerly with the KGB and Ukrainian Airborne and he’s the comm officer.

We then have Sergeant Cedric Pines, United States Army, Airman First Class from France Julia Moreau, and Corporal Makkid Mawlik, United States Marines. These individuals we be manning comm traffic, intel, gathering data and monitoring maps and feeds.

Behind you, you see The Den. This is where we’ll be while you are all out in the shit. We have 2 vans to go mobile, we have air assets for when we need to move and access to everywhere we need to be...or at least very close to where we need to be.

Lastly. We’re obviously a small group. This is borderline a breach of what I should be sharing with you, but Operation 8 is a pilot initiative. Depending on results, other teams may be instituted in hopes of being able to deploy assets to multiple theaters at once. As we are only one team, we are limited to one theater of operation at a time. So don’t fuck this up.

Ladies, gentlemen, have a look around, get familiar with one another. Dismissed.”