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(U) NSA Cops In Baghdad
FROM: SIGINT Communications
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Run Date: 10/08/2004
(U//FOUO) In recognition of their service, MG Quirk presented four NSA Police officers with the
SID Deployment Coin. Expressing the appreciation of all SID personnel who have deployed and
those who will, MG Quirk said, "We greatly appreciate how you applied your training and skills
and often visited the "Red Zone" to provide security while our people were conducting
operations and carrying out mission requirements. Every minute in the "Red Zone" exposed you
to danger, yet you went with our people to allow them to be more focused on mission. In every
sense of the phrase...you had our backs! Your efforts took mission security to an unequaled high
and for that we are very grateful."
(U//FOUO) When NSA employees first began deploying to Iraq the arrangements made for their
security were nothing close to what they are today, thanks to Lieutenant Futrel Jackson,
Sergeant Wayne Weitkamp, Sergeant Anthony Cavell, and Officer
members of the
NSA Police Emergency Response Team. In February of 2004, these men deployed for sixty days
to Baghdad to protect NSA personnel, mission activities and operational elements, engaged in
supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
(U) The Emergency Response Team was selected for this mission based on their individual skills
with weapons and tactics, decisive coordinated teamwork, and the requirements dictated by a
hostile war-stricken environment. Providing armed force protection and expert security support
to Agency personnel and mission elements engaged in sensitive operations, the ERT regularly
encountered dangerous, hazardous conditions, and were exposed to mortar fire and general
lawlessness.
(U) In addition to providing security for the short-term, the NSA Security organization arranged
for long-term contractor teams to provide the same support. They handled the logistics, showed
the contractors the ropes, and introduced them to the right people making it possible for the
protection of SID employees to continue at the same high level.
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108