Kerry & Kathy
Member #007
Just finished a four day Dignitary Protection Course conducted by Asymmetric Solutions.
We spent 14 hours Sat and Sun on a graduation exercise, driving around in two new blacked out Suburbans with a male Principle, his wife (a Blonde ex- swimsuit model) and their toddler child...doing mobile exercises in the Farmington MO area. All six members of the protection detail were dressed in suits with radio pigtails in their ears...with three plainclothes instructors/ observers driving two chase vehicles and three students in suits working as an Advance team in a fifth vehicle.
We were so convincing as a security detail that a local upscale restaurant posted on their Facebook page that Cristina Aguilera had visited them with her body guards for dinner Sat night....
We later went to a nightclub where you could have heard a pin drop as the Principle and security detail entered the bar. The ruse was so convincing that we had two civilian vehicles that waited in the parking lot...then followed us around town, when we left at 11pm, taking pictures of our caravan on Hwy 67..
We initially couldn't shake them...after multiple double left double right turns and a figure eight route through town. We finally did a vehicle stop in a public parking area where the occupants shit their pants when two of our chase vehicles blocked their escape and then had two instructors approach both vehicles. One of the drivers apparently went for a concealed pistol on his belt and the senior instructor told him ..." don't go there...or I'll shoot both you and your wife...".
He withdrew his hand...apologized...and immediately left the scene, not to be seen again.
The local police were made aware of our operation several days prior but the dispatcher and most officers were not made aware. As a result...the dispatcher later reported,... "numerous business owners and residents" calling the police station wanting to know "why the secret service were in town"...or..."was it true Cristina Aguilera was in Farmington"...?
During breakfast Sunday morning, at a local diner I was working as AIG (agent in charge) standing guard next to our Principal when a woman asked me..."if any shooting starts...will you protect me?". It was hard to keep a straight face...but we obviously were quite convincing to the public. It was a very instructional course and exercise.
Our two instructors were ex U.S. State Department Security Team leaders who protected the U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan ambassadors during the second gulf war. One had been a body guard for Angelina Jolie after leaving the military. They gave us "exceptional" marks for our execution of this exercise and said we were as good as some Blackwater contractors they had supervised.
It was a quite a weekend....!
Kerry
We spent 14 hours Sat and Sun on a graduation exercise, driving around in two new blacked out Suburbans with a male Principle, his wife (a Blonde ex- swimsuit model) and their toddler child...doing mobile exercises in the Farmington MO area. All six members of the protection detail were dressed in suits with radio pigtails in their ears...with three plainclothes instructors/ observers driving two chase vehicles and three students in suits working as an Advance team in a fifth vehicle.
We were so convincing as a security detail that a local upscale restaurant posted on their Facebook page that Cristina Aguilera had visited them with her body guards for dinner Sat night....
We later went to a nightclub where you could have heard a pin drop as the Principle and security detail entered the bar. The ruse was so convincing that we had two civilian vehicles that waited in the parking lot...then followed us around town, when we left at 11pm, taking pictures of our caravan on Hwy 67..
We initially couldn't shake them...after multiple double left double right turns and a figure eight route through town. We finally did a vehicle stop in a public parking area where the occupants shit their pants when two of our chase vehicles blocked their escape and then had two instructors approach both vehicles. One of the drivers apparently went for a concealed pistol on his belt and the senior instructor told him ..." don't go there...or I'll shoot both you and your wife...".
He withdrew his hand...apologized...and immediately left the scene, not to be seen again.
The local police were made aware of our operation several days prior but the dispatcher and most officers were not made aware. As a result...the dispatcher later reported,... "numerous business owners and residents" calling the police station wanting to know "why the secret service were in town"...or..."was it true Cristina Aguilera was in Farmington"...?
During breakfast Sunday morning, at a local diner I was working as AIG (agent in charge) standing guard next to our Principal when a woman asked me..."if any shooting starts...will you protect me?". It was hard to keep a straight face...but we obviously were quite convincing to the public. It was a very instructional course and exercise.
Our two instructors were ex U.S. State Department Security Team leaders who protected the U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan ambassadors during the second gulf war. One had been a body guard for Angelina Jolie after leaving the military. They gave us "exceptional" marks for our execution of this exercise and said we were as good as some Blackwater contractors they had supervised.
It was a quite a weekend....!
Kerry
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