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Senior Fellow @FPRI. Previously @USMC, @ColumbiaSIPA, @CentreAST. Focused on Russian defense policy.

Sep 16, 2021, 5 tweets

Photos from a SOF shooting tournament in Tulsa with former SSO commander Alexey Dyumin and current SSO specialists. Interestingly, this is the first time I’ve seen SSO specialists wearing gray uniforms and berets. Will they be known as the Gray Berets now?
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The cap badge is of the SSO's emblem. It also appears Dyumin is playing around with one of the specialist's berets. 2/
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Obviously, I meant Tula, not Tulsa. Also in attendance was Alexander Matovnikov, another former SSO commander and Dyumin's deputy; Sergei Dyachenko, Deputy of FSO and a former Alfa officer; and Andrei Merzlikin, who received the Hero of Russia award in Tajikistan in 1993. 3/

Photos of SSO specialists at the tournament. 4/
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More photos of SSO specialists at the shooting tournament in Tula. As usual they are wearing Voin clothing, Peltors, EOTech and Aimpoint optics, and a couple of AR-type rifles, which they often use at competitions. 5/
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