[kalos72]

The basis for yet another campaign hook...

In some areas, people with the correct skills weren't even enough. Yes a good mechanic might be worth his weight in gold, but one with years working on the M2 Bradley you are trying to repair is worth TEN TIMES his weight in gold.

So for things like the lock system on the Mississippi River or the ones along the Great Lakes and St lawrence Seaway, experience on those specific systems wasn't something that could be taught so the Titan Project Team needed to figure out a way to find and recruit the experienced staff it needed and then support them until the Project was kicked off.

Working on a DoD sanctioned project, even if Top Secret, Titan had access to all the information from the US Corps of Engineers regarding the US locks. They had engineering plans, technical details. Emergency Contingency Plans, everything historically that was relevant to the Project.

In addition, they had access to the personnel. Considering all the things the US Corps of Engineers were responsible for either building or maintaining by the 1990’s, they were the perfect source of skilled personnel with the perfect experiences.

In 1994, in cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers and the DoD, Titan Enterprises recruited and organized teams of veteran engineers that would spend the next 2 years working with current USACE staff responsible for the maintenance and operation of several key USACE divisions to provide the Project with the necessary skills to continue operation and maintenance in accordance with the Project guidelines.

This “mentoring program” also extended to the Canadian agencies responsible for the Canadian side of some of the areas of key interest, although that international cooperation was less involved and happened over a much shorter time period. The results were the same, Titan having skilled, knowledgeable staff able to support all the prime areas of interest for the Project by 1996.

Copies of of relevant plans/details/schematics, spare parts and necessary tools and equipment were stockpiled for each of those locations, awaiting the staff to begin the rebuilding process.