McDonell Benedict "Kazuhira (和平)" Miller (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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thisavrou2016-08-29 07:17 pm
warandpeace) wrote in thisavrou2016-08-29 07:17 pm
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☄ Video | LOCKED TO DEFENSE PERSONNEL
[It's not often that Kaz does video posts, mostly because he doesn't think they're always necessary and he's used to a radio presence. This time, though, he shows his face. He's wearing his Moira uniform, but still with his Diamond Dogs beret and his sunglasses. He also has a custom made coat to go with it, a pair of gloves (only visible when he puts his hand into frame) meant to keep his prosthetic completely hidden, and is generally pretty well kept in a blond El Che kind of way. He's currently outside of the training sim room.]
Many people know me, but in case you don't, I'm Kazuhira Miller and I'm your new Head of Defense. Jim Barnes the younger has been assigned as my assistant.
This ship, as we all well know by this point, is not a safe ship. It's constantly faced with threats inside and out. Even if there were a firm sense of unity, a loyalty to the uniform, it wouldn't last. This most recent incident, like others before, proves that beyond a doubt. All it takes is a little outside influence an we're reverted to another state, another line of thought. We can disappear and come back for the worse. People can come in with diseases, with conditions they can't help, or with no reason to respect other members of the ship.
Because it's not a safe place [he resists pacing] I need some cooperation to make this ship more secure. I need some defense personnel willing and equipped to take reports on damage and question witnesses to come to me for assignments to investigate past incidents. Especially some recent ones. Also for some of our training specialists, be on hand for some new students. I'll try to direct more people to you.
It's not going to be possible to completely secure a ship like this travelling through the zones it's going through, so we got a pretty difficult job. But we don't have to accept it as it is, and there are past mistakes we can and should avoid repeating. I also want to hear ship defense ideas that can be organized and passed on to the captains...
☄ VIDEO | LOCKED TO OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS AND ASSISTANT HEADS
Tell me about your current safety and security measures. Safeguarding information and valuables, zones of retreat during ship combat, so on and so forth. I would also like to request some additional services for anyone planning to engage attackers. Armor, weapons, scanners, medical training and gear to tide them over until assigned and volunteer medics can arrive.
OOC: Dated to after the Jasper and Megatron incidents/after jobs are finalized.
[It's not often that Kaz does video posts, mostly because he doesn't think they're always necessary and he's used to a radio presence. This time, though, he shows his face. He's wearing his Moira uniform, but still with his Diamond Dogs beret and his sunglasses. He also has a custom made coat to go with it, a pair of gloves (only visible when he puts his hand into frame) meant to keep his prosthetic completely hidden, and is generally pretty well kept in a blond El Che kind of way. He's currently outside of the training sim room.]
Many people know me, but in case you don't, I'm Kazuhira Miller and I'm your new Head of Defense. Jim Barnes the younger has been assigned as my assistant.
This ship, as we all well know by this point, is not a safe ship. It's constantly faced with threats inside and out. Even if there were a firm sense of unity, a loyalty to the uniform, it wouldn't last. This most recent incident, like others before, proves that beyond a doubt. All it takes is a little outside influence an we're reverted to another state, another line of thought. We can disappear and come back for the worse. People can come in with diseases, with conditions they can't help, or with no reason to respect other members of the ship.
Because it's not a safe place [he resists pacing] I need some cooperation to make this ship more secure. I need some defense personnel willing and equipped to take reports on damage and question witnesses to come to me for assignments to investigate past incidents. Especially some recent ones. Also for some of our training specialists, be on hand for some new students. I'll try to direct more people to you.
It's not going to be possible to completely secure a ship like this travelling through the zones it's going through, so we got a pretty difficult job. But we don't have to accept it as it is, and there are past mistakes we can and should avoid repeating. I also want to hear ship defense ideas that can be organized and passed on to the captains...
☄ VIDEO | LOCKED TO OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS AND ASSISTANT HEADS
Tell me about your current safety and security measures. Safeguarding information and valuables, zones of retreat during ship combat, so on and so forth. I would also like to request some additional services for anyone planning to engage attackers. Armor, weapons, scanners, medical training and gear to tide them over until assigned and volunteer medics can arrive.
OOC: Dated to after the Jasper and Megatron incidents/after jobs are finalized.
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I know it's not a military vessel but I have a military background as well. [If very military minded independent private forces, bordering on mercenary. He holds the lifestyle and camaraderie in high regard.]
I think some people are meant to fight. I know I was. Life pushes hard enough, and people meant to fight have to push back, or they can push back for the people that can't do it themselves.
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[She wanted people to be able to defend themselves. Sure, it would be great to have more fighters on board, but more than anything, she wanted people equipped with the skills so they wouldn't be stuck in a life or death situation.]
For it not being a military vessel, it sure seems like it at times, does it not? [Especially since the new captains took over. She's glad they aren't enforcing the strict rules like they were, but the ship definitely had a different feel about it now.]
I was fortunate to be given the opportunity that I was. Where I'm from, women are rarely seen as more than a homemaker. At times it felt like war took more from me than it gave, but I got my adventure. And the ability to protect others.
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One of history's greatest soldiers is known "the mother of the special forces", in my world. [Even if how she went down in history isn't as great as it should have been.] Must have been a difficult mountain to climb.
I would feel more comfortable if it were, but I have to admit, acclimating to alien ranks might be slow going. I have a feeling some of the militaries here are structured somewhat differently from our own.
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As would I, but I'm in agreement with your assumption. I doubt their structure would be what we're accustomed to.
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[Funny how time works out in this place.]
One of her code names was "the Boss", though she was known as "the Joy" at the time. She was a member of an elite and specially skilled group of soldiers called the Cobra Unit. On D-Day her unit was assigned to destroy several V2 rocket installations. Where I'm from, her role was significant.
We'll be able to adapt something. [Every system has to be workable.]
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I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with this "Cobra Unit." [And she was very aware of a lot of behind the scenes work done by the Allies during the war. That is, assuming he is talking about soldiers working for the Allied Forces.] But I'm pleased to hear a woman had such a vital role in such a unit.
As we must. [Being adaptable...well, it was the only way to survive around here.]