the bottom of operations for rainbow is located in hereford, england ( along at the time, home to actually the sas ), owing to the united kingdom being one in all the foremost accessible countries within the whole world and keeping one in all the worlds foremost special forces units. almost all the characters in rainbow are american or british, in spite of this the nato countries of france, germany, italy, spain, canada, and of course the nato ally of israel have at the very least one representative every.
clancy describes the structure of rainbow as having one director, who oversees the entire operation, and 1 deputy director, that is second in command. rainbow is portrayed clearly as the blacker than black operations, it also works off of its terribly own intelligence service that has intelligence contacts all in the world. within the whole book, when rainbow is known as upon for help from another countrys government to actually deal utilizing a terrorist situation, sometimes just one in all the 2 groups will certainly be sent, other then in a few things each will certainly be sent. each groups possess an officer ( o-4 or equivalent ) as team leader as well as a senior nco ( e-9 or equivalent ) as second in command. not as well as the team leader, every team is created up of eleven men. rainbow too possesses a standard-issue weapons kit. it consists of the beretta 8045 cougar semi-automatic pistol ( referred to actually being a beretta. 45 automatic ) as well as a suppressed heckler & koch mp5/10 submachine gun ( mislabeled as mp-10 ) for every soldier, with an m60 general purpose machine gun for every groups support gunner. every team too has 2 snipers, every utilizing a custom rifle of their unique choosing. in dead or alive, rainbow uses the a lot of typical heckler & koch mp5sd3 submachine gun and heckler & koch mk23 semi-automatic pistol, when using the knights armanent company m110 semi-automatic sniper system having replaced remington m24 sniper weapon system. when not by using the native polices camouflage they will utilize a lightweight blue and/or black pattern, leading to actually their nickname men of black.
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