Equipment
In keeping with the weapons available to front-line officers, the AOS are issued with Glock 17 pistols and Bushmaster M4A3 carbines. Both the standard front end and the RIS rails are used. Accessories such as Surefire Flashlights, Aimpoint and EOtech scopes, front grips, and slings have been seen in use with the AOS. Other equipment includes: pump-action shotguns, namely the Remington 870, for both breaching and CS gas deployment; the HK 79 grenade launcher for delivery of CS gas; semi-automatic .223 rifles and tactical vests. Extra gear such as drop-leg holsters and magazine pouches have been seen in use, but are optional to the officer. Ballistic vests, Kevlar helmets, and occasionally ballistic shields are also used. The AOS snipers use a rifle made by Accuracy International known as the L96
When responding to incidents, or executing planned operations, AOS officers utilise both standard marked and unmarked cars, and large four-wheel drive vehicles, such as the Nissan Patrol. These are fitted with running boards and roof rails, to allow officers to stand on the side while the vehicle is in motion, as well as having enclosed boxes on the roof for carrying equipment.
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—Joseph O’Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi)
“Why not draft executive and management brains to prepare and produce the equipment the $21-a-month draftee must use and forget this dollar-a-year tommyrot? Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
—Betty Rollin (b. 1936)