KIT & GEAR BLACK CAM
BLACK CAM
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
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RED CELL
IN THE LAST ISSUE OF AIRSOFT ACTION REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR STEVE T GAVE HIS THOUGHTS ON THE LATEST VCBLK GEAR FROM VIPER. THIS MONTH BILL TAKES IT A STEP FURTHER AND PUTS TOGETHER A COMPLETE SET OF GEAR ON A BUDGET THAT FEATURES “BLACK CAM” FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES!
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s we continue to be stuck indoors, I’ve been using highlighting vulnerabilities of military installations and the money I normally spend heading out to games vessels, and would regularly “use fake IDs, jump fences, and events by creating myself a new loadout. It barricade buildings, take hostages, and kidnap high was with great interest that I saw last month that my ranking officers and admirals.” The original “Red Cell” “mucker”, Steve T, has been working along similar lines (OP-O6D) even went so far as to plant bombs near Air with his new VIPER V-CAM BLK clothing. Force One and infiltrated submarine bases (that housed The whole “MCBLK” theme is one I’ve been toying operational nuclear weapons!) and took them over. They with for a while but never got round to putting together would video their missions and show them to everyone as a complete loadout, largely because (like many of you monitoring the exercises. Many people that participated reading this) my money usually seems to go on “guns in the exercises felt embarrassed by their tactics because n’ BBs”. However, with a bit it exposed their weaknesses and of time and a bit of budget in vulnerabilities, and you could hand, I decided that I’d quite like say that Marcinko very quickly “MADE SOMEWHAT INFAMOUS a new loadout for when games became “persona non grata” DURING THE 1980S UNDER THE recommence, so it was time to with his superiors! COMMAND OF FORMER TEAM SIX get back in (MC) black! Marcinko has claimed, among As someone with a keen other things, that Red Cell FOUNDING CO, RICHARD MARCINKO, interest in rather “unique” successfully captured nuclear “RED CELLS” WERE CODENAMES FOR military units, there’s one devices from United States THE US NATIONAL SECURITY COin particular that I seem to Navy facilities and proved the ORDINATION TEAM (NSCT).” always return to when I’m viability of plans to penetrate looking for a theme for a new and attack nuclear-powered loadout, and that’s “Red Cell”. submarines, destroy subs by Made somewhat infamous during the 1980s under the using them as dirty bombs and capture launch codes command of former Team Six founding CO, Richard for nuclear weapons aboard the subs. Former members Marcinko, “Red Cells” were codenames for the US of Red Cell maintain that these exercises were a cover National Security Co-ordination Team (NSCT). These teams to move special warfare operators around the world for were designed to test the effectiveness of American tactics covert missions against real-world terrorists but in 1990 or personnel and the name was derived from “Red Team”, Marcinko was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison a term for the opposing force in war games by western and fined $10,000 under charges of defrauding the nations during the Cold War and a reference to the government over the price of contractor acquisitions for predominantly red flags of Communist nations. hand grenades! During the “Marcinko years” Red Cell members To this day Marcinko maintains that he was the subject made merry with both training budgets and their role of a “witch-hunt” for his work with Red Cell and that
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