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Special Units: A Mantle Guard Services Specialist Unit is a task force composed of highly skilled MGS Operators who are hand picked based on their skills, experience, and willingness to follow orders

Training: After being chosen to join a Specialist Unit, Operators must partake in a brutal training program to further enhance their mind and body, as well as their unlocking and mastering their semblance (but not their Aura, as Operators are required to unlock and master the use of their Aura as part of basic training). They are required to master the use of firearms, bladed weapons, blunt weapons, and hybrid weapons like the ones used by Huntsman and Huntresses. In addition to this, Operators are taught a form of martial arts developed by MGS known as “Semper Paratus” (Which is Latin for “Always Ready”) which is a hybrid of the real life martial arts of Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Russian Systema, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, and Combat Hapkido. For the final course, Operators are deployed in a extremely dangerous area of the Vauco desert, where they must survive for a month using the skills they learned during the training program. If the task proves to be too much to handle, Operators can call for an emergency extraction, but they will fail the course as a result. The final course has proven to be the most dangerous, with 85% of the failure and fatalities coming from the survival course. However, Operators who survive the course and complete the program are assigned to a veteran Specialist Unit where they undergo a 2 month probation period, where the Operator's skills are not only tested, but they also learn the tricks of the trade from the veteran Specialists. After this is over, the Operator is then cleared for field operations and assigned to a team based on their skills, experience, and personality, and a given the title of Specialist.

Perks Of Being A Specialist: Specialists are given a personal weapon and personal uniforms for different environments (both of which can be customized by the Specialist). Specialists are also 4x more than the average MGS Operator and have more vacation and sick days, and are given access to their own private suite than can be customized by the Specialist. They are also given a unique dress uniform, beret, and a custom set of dog tags that distinguishes them as a Specialist.

Cons Of Being A Specialist: Specialists are forced to give up their old identity (anonymity is crucial) and are forbidden from speaking to friends and family outside of MGS. Their true identity is kept secret from everyone, with only high ranking officers and other Specialists knowing their names (In case you’re wondering, Their names are deleted from all employee databases and the former squad mates of the Specialist are told that the Specialist perished in combat or because of health reasons). Specialists are expected to always complete their mission to the letter and failure to do so will result in extreme consequences (Which are not pleasant, but I won’t elaborate).

Specialist Unit Missions: Specialist Units carry out Search and Rescue, Search And Destroy, Covert Ops, Escort Missions, False Flag Operations, Assassinations, Sabotage, And other forms of high risk operations.