Setting up paramilitary Security Forces

[cosmicfish]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Initially the weapons and ammo….. even the basic equipment will probably come from TMP stocks. Likely Korean era surplus that is still serviceable.

Not having read any 4ed, this would seem counter to what 3ed indicated for the Project - the only firearms or military equipment made available for distribution to locals was a non-military survival rifle. You cannot take away weapons they have, but you can risk a lot by arming the locals, and risk avoidance seems to be a Morrow catch phrase.

Plus you are talking about a lot of additional storage.

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

If you emphasize a mission of Search and Rescue, with some guarding the people, the ones that are looking to fight will gravitate out to something else or somewhere else.

I don't think you will be able to sell a post-apocalyptic community on having a SAR organization that sometimes performs police or military functions - no one is going to buy that people getting lost is that big of a problem!

The issue of overly-homicidal candidates for police and military is a long understood (if never fully-solved) problem. If you create a "danger scale" for recruits, then you can place windows on that scale where you can have someone enter the police (which requires more independent action and restraint), enter the military (which can tolerate more dangerous recruits with appropriate controls), or be inappropriate for both (either by being too pacifistic or too homicidal!). Where those windows lie depends on what you need and what you have...