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...Ardiansyah Daulay, a 28-year-old trainee who is pumping hundreds of practice rounds out of a shiny new 9-mm Glock, Jake Wohlman, the American regional-security officer overseeing the counterterrorism project, observes, "It's all about repetition. When they're finished, these guys will be the new ?lite...
...That emerging ?lite is Task Force 88, an Indonesian crack police unit created by the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service as part of its program to develop local antiterrorism specialists in countries allied with Washington in the war on terror. More than $12 million has been spent by the U.S. to build a top-notch training school in Megamendung, some 50 kilometers south of Jakarta, where an academy belonging to the national police once stood. The four-hectare site features a "shoot house" for simulated hostage-taking situations, a breaching area to practice setting door charges...
...mores, familiarity with the Koran and language proficiency. The X-Peacekeepers would also have to train for basic policing-how to talk to people, become part of the community and solicit information. An excellent model exists in the 24-week residential training devised for the Police Corps, an ?lite national-service program that transforms college students into police officers. In fact, Police Corps and special-forces training are similar; both emphasize creative responses in unexpected situations, using scenarios and role playing...
...entire army wears berets now, and there's a lesson in that. Bush has spoken eloquently of the need to expand democracy in the Middle East, and he has been equally eloquent about the nobility of public service. Why not combine both in a new, ?lite military corps? Call them Extreme Peacekeepers or the Freedom Corps or whatever, but seek out the sort of people who aren't normally inclined to join the military-idealistic college students who hope to become doctors, lawyers, politicians or engineers and are eager to do something noble (and burnish their r?sum?s) by serving their...
...live is to kill because you don't have to worry about anybody who's dead." William Doyle, former sergeant in the U.S. Army's ?lite "Tiger Force," which, according to a Toledo Blade investigation, killed more than 100 civilians in a seven-month Vietnam War rampage...