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Burtilanian Aid Agency

The Burtilanian Aid Agency (BAA) has recently decided to extend our aid relief onto the world stage.
It is a humanitarian organisation dedicated to natural and man made disasters. Run by the Burtilanian Government, it is controlled partly by the military, and partly by the foriegn office.

It was formed after Burtilana's desicion to aid in Kinstantia, before and after Hurricane Amanda. The BAA is a sister organisation of the ZIAA (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=560043)

To complete the goal of delivering humanitarian assistance, the BAA operates a large fleet of HH-96D Emergency Medical Evacuation helicopters, UH-96D Air Ambulance helicopters, HH-96B Combat Search and Rescue helicopters, chinook helicopters and Military Land Rovers, different varities for different purposes. It currently has no hospital ships, and is looknig to increase its numbers soon. BAA aid workers currently stand at 16450.

None of the vehicles will be armed with any sort of weaponary. The BAA agency workers will not carry any weapons either. In cases where aid worker's lives are at risk from hostiles, i.e. war zones, anarchic countries, the BSF will escort and protect the aid relief.

The BAA will never charge a nation for our services. Not before, or after a crisis.

Head of the BAA: Ms. Stella Merry

How other nations, organisations and companies can aid us.

We wish that all nations sign a treaty with us, declaring that they will not fire upon any BAA vehicles or agency personnel. All BAA vehicles will be painted dark green, with the BAA logo clearly on it. Any nation/organisation/company that does fire upon, or otherwise damages our equipment/personnel, will have to pay for damages.
The BAA is state run and funded, though donations of money, equipment etc. would be greatly appreciated.


Current areas of Operations (CAO)
We will keep this updated so the world knows where we are working.

Kinstantia

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To: Burtilana

As your sister organization, we feel we must express our displeasure upon learning BAA workers will be armed. One reason it is fair to expect other nations to agree not to fire upon the ZIAA is because our vehicles and workers are totally unarmed. We suggest the BAA follow suit.

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Burtilanian Aid Agency

Thank you for your input, after highlighting the issue, we discussed it futher, and my advisers and I agreed, carrying weaponary all the time whilst working may look aggresive and provoke an attack.
Though what about nations or organisations that have not signed the treaty? they could still fire upon us.
We shall decide against issuing are aid workers with PDWs and other weapons.

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Burtilanian Aid Agency

A new logo has been designed, if you see it on any vehicles, please do not fire upon them, thank you

Head of the BAA
Ms. Stella Merry

Hello Burtilana, everyone here at East Laos is more than happy to support you with your cause. We are currently being funded for our own humanitarian organization. ELIA (East Laos International Aid) is a brand new program we are developing to provide supplies, aid among other things to our own nation, along with any nations that request it. We do carry arms, however they aren't on our volunteers body. We keep them in a compartment in the vehicles. All of our vehicles are black with a white cross, containing a red star in the middle. Also our people do carry a handgun in a hip holster. As well with the handgun, the guns in the vehicle are typically M4A2's, AK-47's, and Remmington 12 gauge pump action shotgun. We look forward to future agreements and alliances.

Sincerely,
Robert Taylor,
Founder of ELIA and current volunteer.

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Burtilanian Aid Agency

TO: Robert Taylor, Founder of ELIA
From: Ms. Stella Merry, Head of BAA

Thank you for your support, We agree not to fire upon you, hopefully you will do the same, and not fire upon us. We hope to work with you in the future.

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To: Robert Taylor, Founder of ELIA

We must again express our distaste towards any humanitarian aid organization that would carry deadly weapons, especially ones as heavy as those that you have listed. In any area where those weapons would be necessary, some sort of military escort should be present and in areas where those weapons are not necessary they obviously should not be carried. The most armament we could ever get behind for an aid worker is pepper spray or perhaps a tazer.

But if you think about it a tazer? What if there was a deadly force who attacked the organization? You would be very unprepared and you would loose a number of your men. But if you carried conceieled weapons then you'll have a decent defense. Also the weapons carried in the vehicles are hidden in a compartment and they have to get clearance to use them. However with their handgun that is kept in a holster and are usually a Glock 29, 10mm gun.

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To: Robert Taylor, Founder of ELIA

As I have said, aid agencies will either be operating in safe areas with little to no risk of attack or in regions where troops are already deployed and they can obtain a military escort. Whatever the situation, aid workers should not be armed with lethal weapons as it undermines the whole idea. And making the weapons concealed certainly doesn't help anything, if it has any effect at all, it makes things worse.

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Well I can see our nations have different views. But when I was stationed recently in a large island nation near East Laos we were making humanitarian stops and supplying people with food, water etc. And we came under attack in what was thought of as a perfectly safe place. And we didn't have any weapons and everyone but me and two others were killed.
You see my philosiphy is: It's better to have something and not need it, than need it and not have it.

We are doing this action from expierience and for our own peoples safety when they are out there helping those less fortunate out.

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To: Robert Taylor, Founder of ELIA

Perhaps you should consider body/vehicular armor as an alternative to guns. After all, just carrying a weapon doesn't make one safer. He must also have the time, the skill and the minimum number of digits remaining in order to utilize the weapon.

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We understand your different opinion but we already require our men to be equipped with kevlar vests, and our vehicles already have armor. We will not take away the weapons. They are staying with us.

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Burtilanian Aid Agency

I have no problem with East Laos agency workers carrying weapons, as long as we make it clear to the world that BAA workers will not carry weapons upon them, ever.

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To: Robert Taylor, Founder of ELIA

Perhaps you should consider body/vehicular armor as an alternative to guns. After all, just carrying a weapon doesn't make one safer. He must also have the time, the skill and the minimum number of digits remaining in order to utilize the weapon.

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Burtilanian Aid Agency

The BAA is proud to announce it is in the process of purchasing two hospital ships. We hope the deal is successful as it plans to have one stationed on either side of the world, to respond to emergancies whenever, wherever they arise

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Burtilanian Aid Agency

Correction to the previous announcement, we have purchased 4 Sanders Class Fast Combat Support Ships and converted them into hospital ships.

Each boasts a new state-of-the-art communication suite includng a modern message processing system, 9 fully-equipped operating rooms, a 700 bed hospital facility, radiological services, medical laboratory, a pharmacy, an optometry lab, a cat scan and two oxygen producing plants. Both vessels have a helicopter deck capable of landing large military helicopters, as well as side ports to take on patients at sea. The hospital ship is equipped with one dental surgery rooms with three dental chairs total where routine dental work can be done. These dental surgery rooms can be used in an emergency as regular operating rooms.

Builder: Arrio Heavy Manufacturing Corp.
Convertor: BDOTP
Power Plant: Four Aequatian Automotive Industries 2,500-hp Power Biodiesel Engines
Propulsion: Two Aequatian Automotive Industries AQ-660 Waterjets Configured for Steering and Reverse
Displacement: 36,380 metric tons
Length: 201m
Beam: 29.5m
Maximum Speed: 27 knots
Crew: 100 Ship's Company ; 30 Officers, 58 civilian mariners, 860 Naval medical staff, 250 Naval support staff
Radar:
AN/SPY-4 Multi-Function Radar (MFR)
AN/SPY-5 Millimetre-band Volume Search Radar (MMBVSR)
A-SatCom Orbital Uplink Suite (Navigation)
LIDAR/SONAR:
Aequatian Electronic Industries Mk.XXIII Bow-Mounted Active LIDAR Array
IUSW-21 Sonar

Now called Sanders Class Fast Hospital Ships, they will be placed in the North and South Atlantic, and North and South Pacific oceans to react to emergancies as they happen.

We request for our ships, painted white with red crosses and the BAA logos on, to be allowed to dock at ports around the world to restock and rest etc.
Nations will be paid generously for allowing this.