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===Alliance special training===
Because of the special training procedures they trained in under the tutelage of Professor Blumenberg, the members of ''The Alliance'' all have a number of special skills and capabilities not enjoyed by the grand majority of young metahumans who have matriculated at USAES (until
* All ''Alliance'' members have been trained to resist high-power/median-duration telepathic scans through use of 'negative data feedback' (resisting the pain and stress while concentrating on events/images and concepts that the telepath scanning will find repulsive, such as continuous bowel movements).
* Each female ''Alliance'' member has been psi/sleep-taught Arabic, while each male member of the ''Alliance'' has been psi/sleep-taught Spanish; each can speak and read those as a second language. (Any member who already has these languages will be assigned a different language.)
* All ''Alliance'' members have been extensively trained in 'virtual reality' simulations; as a result, ''Alliance'' members are less subject to the disorienting mental effects of reality-altering experiences, and are more resistant to the physical side-effects of being active in 'virtual reality' chambers. A side-effect of this training provides each member with a ''slight'' resistance to the effects of psychotropic substances and powers that act upon a person's perception of reality.
* All ''Alliance'' members have been psi/sleep-taught the basic knowledge of piloting light aircraft (light airplanes and helicopters). Those who are not fully-trained pilots (like Kelly and David Allen) can safely take off, keep a plane/helicopter aloft and land, but not much else; this skill can be augmented through experience and further standard flight training.
* All ''Alliance'' members have been given advanced multi-environment survival training (forest, arctic, desert, tropical, mountain,
* All ''Alliance'' members
* All ''Alliance'' members have been psi/sleep-taught basic fluency in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand shorthand], and are required to take a fluency test each semester to maintain those skills. They receive psi/sleep-training upgrades to remain current in their skills, and retake the actual ''Alliance'' medical training yearly.
* All ''Alliance'' members have been psi/sleep-taught to operate and repair [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave shortwave] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_transmission Low probability of intercept (LPI)/ Low probability of recognition (LPR) radio equipment] for communication purposes. Each member undergoes a twelve-hour refresher course in operations and repair each semester to maintain those skills.
* All 'Alliance' members have been psi-sleep taught the martial arts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskrima Kali] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Jujitsu Brazilian Jujitsu], in order to provide them with an effective set of hand-to-hand fighting skills. They receive annual mental implantation in order to keep those skills from degrading and to receive skill updates.
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