User:Dconnerton/sandbox

BIO AND MISC:

Biggest misunderstanding of a sniper - that he's a killer as opposed to a defender. Most snipers save the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Darrell was a sniper.

How Darrell became a handler. Darrel was in the military (Army, since 17 - at that time you could join at 17), and he had a particular skill - he could become "invisible" if he wanted to. To blend into areas. He became a sniper. He was given a couple of missions as a sniper and was very successful though, to him, uneventful. He had a target and he identified target and terminated it. Period.

One of Darrell's strengths was the ability to organize something in such a matter - he knew what was going to happen and when. Darrell relied on his "spotter" (almost all snipers have spotters) - the talented part of the sniper according to him, since they check the "windage" and direction - though the natural skill-set was his. The spotter is needed to identify the target where you are going to shoot it, not multiple targets in the same area.

Wind may cause bullets to rise and fall in mid-air, and all that has to be plugged in by spotter, who does Trigonometry in his head. Spotters trade off with the sniper.

After Darrell's stint as a successful sniper, the military saw his organizational skills and he started putting together missions by collecting intel, hiring personnel and using assets he has in the areas. Sometimes, he wouldn't see them. Then he got bigger and bigger, took information and designed the missions.

"Best shot" was an M-82 A3 sniper rifle. Using an explosive shell, shot through an 8 inch block wall and took out three people from 1200 yards.

Spotters are for distances, not for up to 800 yards. But after that you do. The spotter gave him information. They look at their scope and they check - the wind, thermals coming off ground, distances ... 1430 yards was Connerton's longest shot - eight inches - the head.

George H.W. Bush was single in politics. Nixon wanted to set Bush up with his daughter. "Secret Family."

Nixon caused Bush to be appointed to director of CIA, which is where Connerton met him. Connerton came up with the plan for Project LEO, which was not looked upon favorably. Because the CIA had to protect its own and he was not part of the organization. They don't have the training, ability or knowledge. Some time later, when other problems with losing CIA agents, and Contra-Costa hearings, it was leaked about some of the agents.

They asked how can they solve this? They can't have it going on again.

Connerton nudged Bush - how about Project LEO? Bush went to Reagan, "How about Project LEO?"



Project Phoenix - In the latter part of the Vietnam conflict, Darrell was brought in as one of the handlers in special forces to locate, identify and retrieve, capture, and take them for interrogation.

In one of them, for example, they had this one Viet Cong general that was responsible for a lot of lives because he spent a lot of time planning and gathering intel about what they were doing in Vietnam. He was identified and monitored, found out he liked expensive food, expensive booze and women. He was staying at a high-end hotel above Hanoi. He had a unique security team positioned everywhere. Whenever he arrived, they surrounded him. Connerton and crew monitored him for a period of time. Found out he had specific traits to identify and predict what he was going to do next. 3rd night they found out they had enough intel, a significant amount of alcohol, retired ... repelled down the building, ground team neutralized his security force, and his woman, rendered him unconscious, packaged him where by vehicle he was taken to another part of the country where the interrogators were located. One particular function.

Another mission they were given information that the Viet Cong General had a covey of ladies of the night who would solicit the soldiers, seduce them with alcohol and drugs and extract bits of information that was pieced together from different sources. They would then know where some of their patrols were going, what their plans were and they would go out and kill them. Connerton was given the mission to neutralize these people. They were monitored. It was then found out who the head lady was in charge of the prostitution, and found out they she had unwilling and sometimes uncooperative prostitutes that were forced to gather this information.

Connerton figured that if he was to have the them neutralized, then the other women would be dispersed and the flow of information would stop. Once she met with him, he would go to another location. Connerton decided to capture him and neutralize the woman. After a couple of days of monitoring them and their whereabouts, he was captured for interrogation. Darrell then located the woman, who did not know he had been taken out of the picture, and then through the use of sniper fire took her out.

Connerton was correct. After she was gone, the other women disbursed.

Third mission. Person was lower than a general. He was going to villages and if there was any thought of them cooperating with American military, he would first kill all of the families he was associated with and then kill him. It would discourage them from cooperating with the Americans at all. He put the American weapons etc.with mutilated bodies so the people would think the Americans did that. Connerton was given the mission to neutralize the activity. The guy had abused alcohol and women severely, and tie them outside in the rain for long periods of time. After he had used them, he had allowed some of the other soldiers to come by and publicly rape her, to dishonor her in her village.

Connerton discovered that they went out on patrol one night, and received some intel. He planted some explosives, and when the guy came back in their areas, the explosives were detonated and he was terminated them, which stopped for a period of time all the abuse in the villages.

Darrell had 8 or 9 missions, not counting several (3) missions in El Salvador, and some still classified. Very sensitive in today's world.



Before the army, he worked with his father in construction. It helped. Construction helped him with logistical skills to plan what's going to happen. You don't build the roof before the foundation and the walls.

When he was a kid, he does not remember what he wanted to be. But when he was 8, he cut lawns for money. Different jobs when he was 16, first job at a bowling alley setting pins before automatic pin setters, then more pay to jump an alley. Two allies paid a lot more. Then a job at a fast food place - The Country Kitchen. Started out as a bun toaster, then an assembler of burgers then a short order cook. Worked, went to school, did all homework in school.