RE: PA availability, was: [semi OT] Women wargamers

Noah spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

If the real police are any guideline, all the Tac/ERT guys tend to 
like to wear black, black and more black. Occaisionally some dark 
navy. They might have little things of white lettering with SWAT, 
ERT, HRT, POLICE, FBI, ATF or the like on them somewhere, but maybe 
not. OPP Tactical Response Unit (TRU team as it was known) used to 
wear cammie jammies just like grunts. But this partially resulted in 
an accidental (ish) death when a guy came out, saw cammed up guys in 
his back yard with SMGs, got his shotgun, and fired at them (and they 
then cut him down) because he didn't believe they were police dressed 
like that. So now they don't wear woodland fatigues 
anymore....probably black. 

> Interesting argument - I'll have to paint up some of my ESU PA in
police 
> colors (any suggestions?) for use in my developing gang war/uprising 
> scenario...
> 
> Noah
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Gray [SMTP:cgray@jps.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 07:08 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: PA availability, was: [semi OT] Women wargamers
> 
> Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> >
> > Tom Anderson wrote, on whether or not every soldier can have a PA
suit:
> > :
> > > in sp*** ma**** etc, the whole of the marines was armoured, even
if the
> > guard (and > all other races) were not.
> >
> > This is a very poor argument. The GW Space Marines are the
equivalent to
> > John Atkinson's PA divisions - of *course* everyone of them has a PA
> > suit. They wouldn't be PA troops if they didn't have PA suits, after
> > all... However, the GW Marines make up a small fraction of a percent
of
> > the Imperium's armed forces, so this example supports John, not you.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Oerjan Ohlson
> > oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com
>	In addition, remember the problems you are going to have with
repairing
> and sustaining the suits.  Today, one of the arguements against
> autoloaders in tanks is that three men cannot maintain an MBT in the
> field.  Helicopters and Jet fighters actually spend more time on the
> ground, maintained by crews of techs, then they do in combat.
>	I see powered armor, at least for the very long haul as being a
"shock"
> force, that is designed for very high tempo, short term operations. 
In
> fact, you could make a case for police getting PA before soldiers
would
> since a SWAT team is never far from support, and seldom is in action
for
> more then a few hours at a time.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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