Is there any real life equivalent to the HECU from Half Life? Does the US military have a unit like this specially trained to deal with areas heavy with CBRN hazards where it's their entire gimmick and not just an incidental part of their training?
>>65237664>While the Half-Life lore frames the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU) as an elite Marine force sent to clean up an anomalous lab disaster, the real world divides this daunting job between two highly technical, rapid-response formations: the Marine Corps’ CBIRF and the Army’s 20th CBRNE Command.
>>65237664 Department of Energy has special security forces of their own. That’s the closest I can think of. Don’t trespass at an NPP, those niggas will smoke you
>>65237746>>65237749>hey so I heard you like doing guard duty
>>65237664What is the tactical advantage of white camo?
>>65238011Urban Camouflage. It blends better in office buildings and industrial settings than being dressed like a forest.
>>65238011It makes yourASSHEAVY
>>65237664on a related note as they are also a specialized team who wears urban M81 and is depicted in fiction, is there an irl equivalent to the ayylmao recovery/sanitization teams depicted in the X Files?
>>65237749>those shades, staches, and crisp white trousersAbsolutely fucking stylin'. I always get all the different DoE spook teams confused. Those fuckers have to have like... four or five by now.
>>65238275Would you believe I have this shotgun and see it in B scifi movies, too?
>>65237745CBIRF would not survive Black Mesa
>>65238449neither did the HECU
>>65238275I believe US Air Force projects Blue Fly, Moon Dust, and Round Robin were respectively charged with recovering Soviet material (in general or maybe just air stuff), alien material, and Soviet space material respectively for analysis and exploitation. No idea if they had their own personal goon squads though.
>>65238339I hate the super light khaki pants cause you can see when I accidentally dribble a little piss
>>65238779>Accidentally
>>65238339>Those fuckers have to have like... four or five by now.You'd think nuclear emergencies happen all the time and they just ain't telling us
>>65237749That's some real oper8or shit>>65238275Ask picrel
>>65237746Is there a protocol for kayaking past a coastline power plant?
>>65238011Good for morale.
>>65238458I never beat opposing force, always got stuck in the sewer with the giant slugs. How does it end? Does the corporal die?
>>65237749>Deleted almost a day later
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>>65240287Military intelligence, two words combined which can't make sense.
>>65240111You get picked up by cops on a boat or coast guard
>>65240781Will they be mad, or will they just say hello? I don't own a kayak yet.
>>65240773*guitar riffs*THE GOVERNMENT SUCKS*guitar riffs*
>>65240835And it's so fucking good.
>>65240209They just wanted to stop the spread of a horrible disease by gassing the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic
>>65240289adrian gets vanned by g-man at the end after killing a big fuck off ayy-lmao and is currently in stasis awaiting an assignment as far as we know. my theory is g-man's probably been using him for wetwork.
>>65237664>Does the US military have a unit like this specially trained to deal with areas heavy with CBRN hazardsyes- there are specialized units specifically dealing with CBRN missions. One of recent note is 23rd Chemical Battalion of US Army and similar units. But that's just surface-level. Who knows what other hidden CBRN/spooky-level units there are past typical US military. We're talking Special Forces, Special Missions Units, Special Operations and even darker with no-name units doing who knows. We may see something with the recent Iran debacle and maybe infiltrating their supposed underground facilities.
>>65237745Would these be the guys sent on a hypothetical mission to grab Iran's enriched uranium?
>>65241753I wouldn't worry about it
I was a CBRNE/WMD investigator. We were not a direct action high speed part of the agency, but were the only ones who could do anything in a hazardous environment.
>>65241722I would be amazed if the CIA DIDN'T have a dedicated unit of CBRN spooks who get sent out to go chase down rumors in areas that are too spicy for proper inspection teams and where regular spying doesn't work very well.
>>65237664MY.ASS.IS.HEAVY.
>>65237664No idea about real-life HECU equivalent but austrian army does train in tunnels with SCBAs which kinda follows the vibe. Picrel.
>>65242738Another pic...
>>65242741Sometimes IFVs are involved. A bit like "SCP Foundation containing a breach"
>>65240496what kino
>>65240782Assuming you didn't ask for permission beforehand, you're probably trespassing and they are NOT happy to see you.
>>65238275Lmao, those niggers using Keltecs?
>>65242745>in a dark room>blink>face to face with a kangaroo the moment you open your eyes>get kicked in the nads so hard you die
If only CBRN was cool and not just military vehicle washing simulator while having to wear a gimp suit
It's interesting in both U.S. invasions of Iraq they made the Marines wear woodland MOPP suits. They were effectively HECU troops.
>>65240289noyou don't even get the freeman choice of go with gman or be sent into an unwinnable fight gman saves you from a nuclear blast in black mesa and tells you you'll be detained somewhere no one can get to you because you're a dangerous witness
>>65242745>basically a compact and fast light tank>which can also move a few dudes>and can be CBRN capableGod, IFVs are the best.
>>65241931I'm a hazmat specialist and I heard this job and cbrn in general sucks ass.
>>6524345499% of it is telling people to scrub the undercarriage of their trucks more
>>65240111Don't approach or look shady. No pictures. You are under surveillance before you can see anything on the shore.
>>65240209>>65241000I miss how 90s movies' villians were actual relatable characters.
>>65242837I prefer "Dreamcatcher."
>>65243023That is two Mossberg 500 bullpups, a Calico and an AUG.MP5 in the background, I think.Newfag.
>>65243101>they made the Marines wear woodland MOPP suits.probly cause they only HAD woodland mopp suits.
>>65243102That's kinda interesting, they should have made a hl2 expansion pack with him
>>65244227they should make the 3rd episode already >:(i don't think he fits into hl2maybe he could've fit into epistle 3 fighting for earth while freeman went to suicide bomb the combine with the borealis but that storyline probably won't happen now
>>652434909/11 broke american action movies like it broke country musicneither have recovered yet
>>65244293>they should make the 3rd episode already >:(Honestly glad that Episode 3 got scrapped because if epistle 3 is anything to go by, it would have been absolute shit and pissed everyone off.Better that the devs of Alyx decided to partially retcon the ending of Episode 2 (in a way that actually fit into the narrative of the games no less) so we can get a proper Half-Life 3.
>>65244500mark wrote epistle 3 for closure they didn't necessarily want to end with episode 3 so that storyline wasn't necessarily it
>>65243023>>65238275From the 80 through the 90s and into the early 00s AUGs, Keltecs, P90s, and SPAS-12s were the spacy near future scifi guns. Urban M81 was also popular for fictional outfits. Brotherhood of Nod goons in the first war are also depicted as wearing it.
>>65238449No shit, they're a recon and decon unit.
>>65240289As the other anons said, Shephard's blacksited and all the other HECU boys get explod.Those tunnels scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, but the aliens have such a long attack chargeup that you can legitimately just run past all of them.
>>65244227They should have, but instead we got the legendary shitbiscuit of the ages which is Hunt Down The Freeman.
Remember to pet your spore launcher regularly, anons
>>65244954>THOOMPH>THOOMPH>THOOMPH>THOOMPH>hhhhmmgghhh>hhhhmmgghhh>hhhhmmgghhh>hhhhmmgghhh
>>65244954Instructions unclear, attempted to poke snark.
>>65238011Valve deliberately made them white so they would be easier for players to spot.
>>65245049Why do cosplayers always have to most ill fitting gloves of all time
>>65245059Small hands and putting off sewing tighter fitting ones to focus on other projects.
>>65238352Yes, because they are incredibly shitty and not that expensive.
>>65237745In 1998 it would've been the US Army Chemical Corps. CBRNE Command didn't exist till 2004, and while CBIRF existed they were purely a training and law enforcement liaison unit in '98.
>>65244901I always have like 10 health left when I get down there from the battle before it. Fucking annoying. Been playing these games for 25 years and still haven't beat that one
>>65237745>the Marine Corps’ CBIRF and the Army’s 20th CBRNE Command.So what's the difference between those two?
>>65247780Different branches, different areas of jurisdiction
>>6524778020th CBRNE Command is full brigade strength and functions as headquarters for JTF-E.CBIRF is roughly battalion strength and does mostly emergency decontamination work (not just weapon situations, they were called in during the Fukushima leak for example) and security for VVIP events. They also provide training in CBRN emergency response and counter-bioterror operations for allied militaries and US law enforcement.
>>65241722>>65237664>>65241931I was a 54B. There is a bewildering array of VERY specialized MOS skill tag schools for very specific tasks assigned to tiny units you have never heard of. When i was at the CDTF i saw a flyer advertising a 'Underwater Chemical EOD Specialists School which i was interested in a but would have required me to undergo training longer than my enlistment time. Basically it is a tiny joint NATO unit that monitors the millions of chemical shells sitting on the oceans floor after WW1/WW2. It was a Army/Airforce thing because at the time the Navy was complete and utter shit at Chemical stuff and probably still is.
>>65247981> the millions of chemical shells sitting on the oceans floor after WW1/WW2Egg-fucking-scuse me
>>65247984After the wars they were just dumped into the ocean. Your job is once or twice a year you jump off a boat in a sealed diving suit into the North Atlantic and walk around poking 75+ year old mustard and nerve gas shells to make sure they aren't doing anything.
>>65247984NTA but it's mostly fine. The concerns are mostly somebody trying to steal them or a lot of them starting to leak all at once. There's a big tanker full of mercury that was sunk in the North Atlantic while being smuggled to the Axis during WWII who's cargo is supposedly completely intact that'll probably end up being a problem one day, tho.
>>65247984Generally human beings throw the really nasty shit into the ocean because it's cheap, easy, and far away.Chemical weapons aren't the only thing down there you know.
>>65248063Ocean water is very good a breaking down chemical compounds and almost (almost) all of the shells have rusted out and been neutralized, the suits and water will (almost always) protect you from and danger if one happens to leak at the exact moment you poke it. A bigger danger is many of them are mixed in with other ordinance that might explode but supposedly that has never happened.
>>65248063That sounds like free mercury to me. Someone should go siphon it.
>>65242837You must be at least 18 to post here.>>65240496based and the truth is out there pilled
