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- #876
I used to work in counter terrorism myself. We were issued with mobile phones and had to be within a 1 hour response time of the Barracks at all times. This was in 2001 (and in the military).
From there it was getting bombed up, hitting the armory, vehicles ready, comms checks etc (plus anything else needed like tear gas, demolitions, boats, arranging transport etc etc etc). Thats all got to be completed in under another hour, and then from there, it was down to travel time, and then getting set up there and deploying the snipers, a base near the incident to work from, getting cameras inside, negotiators etc etc etc
Under 2 hours to get 100 blokes from sitting on a couch watching telly (or down the Pub, in the movies, at the beach or wherever) to sitting on a C-130, armed and ready to go, with pallets of demolitions, ammunition, tear gas, boats, computers, weapons etc all loaded up is about par (and even then you're doing a pretty good job).
And this is the military. I dare say the Tassie Police force in 96 hadnt ever had to deal with anything like this before.
