SNAKEEATERS - SITE-J

This is some excellent additional information on Site-J, located in Washington DC. It was too much to put into the MP Guide, but way too good not to use somehow.

AVAILABLE INFORMATION, MORROW FROZEN WATCH / COUNTERINTEL, SITE JERICHO:

Site Jericho is a backup to the Snakeater main command facility.

The shape is a geodesic sphere, and the water to drink is distributed in many interconnected shock-absorbing sacks, connected by a network of strong tubes with protective valves. This is safer and more useful for shock absorption than one huge tank inside the structure. Water is gotten from a big spigot that passes through the interior wall inside the structure. Site-J has a LOT of water (600,000-900,000 gallons, depending on how many bags have burst from the blast waves). Thirsty people might value the area just for the water, without knowing anything else about it. Untrained people would not understand why this water was safe despite high radiation counts in VA/WDC. Site-J has the rare and precious ion-exchange filtering equipment, which is huge and very expensive (takes up whole rooms and cannot be moved from the base) but it filters nuclear radiation out of water, and gets power from the base radiothermal generator. When you drink from the spigot inside the base, you must wait a while for it to be pumped out of the sacks outside, through the filter rooms inside the base, and then out the spigot.

All personal still asleep, a composite unit of sixteen, all female. Of these, some from the so-called Funny Platoon within 1SFOD ("Delta Force"), and a few are highly experienced instructors from the Central Intelligence Agency, Special Activities Division. They are all extremely competent, VERY good at acting and disguises. That is what the Funny Platoon does, disguised work overseas in places where the cultural expectation is for women to be non-threatening.

Installation Commander: Rene Elizabeth Raymond, African-American, father from Somalia, mother from Lesotho. Noted for ability to maintain good rapport with members of foreign units, in part by passing for a man when necessary. Adept in combatives at close range, including a variety of bladed weapons, with which she enjoys practicing frequently. Served in Caribbean region, Near East, and North Africa. Transferred to Snakeaters due to inability to adjust to civilian life--partially treatable PTSD, traumatic flashbacks arising from mishap during solo HALO insertion at night into water off Turkey. Was apparently injured by unidentified venomous sea creature.

Listing of known on-site equipment: 24x Heckler & Koch G11K3 assault rile, 4x DENEL Corporation PAW-20 "Neopup" 20 mm. handheld grenade launcher. Fitted with modified transparent C-MAG magazine, providing 10 rounds each. 2x Precision Remotes Corporation Telepresent Rapid Aiming Platform (TRAP) mounting Barrett M1A1 .50-caliber sniper rifle capable of automatic tracking and firing at any moving person in its arc of fire. This is done with above human accuracy and over great distances, once the key has been turned by a human operator.

Vehicles: 1x LaBoch "Rhino" armored car, with CBW protection and gun ports in the sides which can be closed. This vehicle is unusually large, more like an armored bus. The Snakeaters use one that has been custom-built with an engine designed to run on alcohol. The Samaritan remotely operated vehicle (see below) goes in a special trailer that is towed behind. 1x USMC Samaritan remotely operated vehicle. It mounts a modular cannon device with a tank of abrasive slurry. It will squirt several yards, with enough force to gradually cut through even hard metal objects at a safe distance. This can be replaced with a high-temperature flamethrower if needed, for example, to burn off fluid contaminants. It also mounts two very strong manipulator arms, plus a medical-grade incinerator that is large and powerful enough to burn one whole contaminated human body at a time. You could use it, for example, to open a wrecked car, remove the contaminated body of a person who had died inside the car from a CBW attack, burn the body, wash down the car, and cut it apart for scrap.

Written in September 2007 by Julian G. and used with permission.