Task Force Tabs
                   
The Black Widow Company fields three special-interest teams within Planetside. Task Force Commando is a rapid-deployment quick reaction force designed to strike at targets anywhere on the globe with less than a minute's mobility WARNO. The Commando task force also contains an infiltrator detachment whose specialty in EOD, Combat Engineering, sabotage, and stealth is second to none. Task Force Ranger is the BWC's elite heavy infantry detachment designed to air assault any target with a combat load-out and overwhelm it with superior firepower and coordinated strike. The Ranger task force also deploys a long-range surveillance detachment which specialises in sniping and reconnaissance. Task Force Dragon is the BWC's air support and air cavalry division, handling Ranger deployments, close air support, precision Liberator bombing and harassment carpet-bombing.
Skill Tabs are used to denote these specific teams within Black Widow Company. Skill tabs are our way of recognizing the outfit members who volunteer not only to play Planetside with BWC, but also to voluntarily join a strictly-controlled team with required certifications and courses that must be attended. Elite members of these teams earn more than just the tab - they also earn the team badge as a mark of their full-fledged status on the team ( as opposed to an initiate/novice member).
Task Force Commando
Task Force Commando consists of personnel who perform commando-type actions in combat, that contribute greatly to the success of BWC infantry operations, or to the overall victory of Terran Republic forces on a particucontinent during major operations. These personnel are generally operating solo or in small strike forces. They rely on independent means apart from the main body of forces to get to the objective or slip behind enemy "battle lines". Its primary mainstay is light infantry using Mosquito aircraft to arrive quickly, then deploying shotguns or MCG heavy assault to force entry and defeat opponents. Required certifications for Commando's lightning-strike team are: Medium Assault, Heavy Assault, Mosquito. Required certifications for the Infiltrator detachment are: Medium Assault, Infiltration Suit, Ground Support, Combat Engineering. Having Advanced Hacking is also a plus, to permit jacking into terminals/vehicles and hacking bases quickly. The main focus of TF Commando is to provide advanced recon TF Ranger, and also to sabotage enemy bases or efforts behind the main battle lines.
Task Force Ranger
Task Force Ranger is the quick-reaction strike force. These troopers operate in the thick of battle as elite air assault heavy infantry. Essentially a rapid-deployment strike force, they are quickly deployed to seize objectives when stealth is not an option. Those who wear the Ranger tab are infantry troops who use tactics and rehearsed battle drills to quickly seize towers and bases or perform ambushes along highly-utilized routes of advance. They are generally supported in terms of medics, engineer, or air transportation by other BWC members. TF Ranger required certs are: Reinforced Armor, Medium Assault, either heavy assault, anti-vehicular or special assault, and either the Assault Buggy or ATV certification. Anything else counts as a force modifier.
Task Force Dragon
Task Force Dragon is the BWC's air superiority, air support, air cavalry and air transport unit. They train to fly anything, with pilots often focussing on specific aircraft as their chosen specialty but keeping current on other aircraft to fill mission needs. Task Force Dragon can deliver pinpoint rocket fire in a Reaver gunship, provide air superiority in a Wasp or Mosquito, deliver pinpoint accuracy with Liberator bombs or just carpet-bomb an area with massive Liberator formations, or they can deliver a full combat load of Rangers anywhere on the map, under any circumstance. The Dragon task force's Galaxy pilots train various insertion methods, all designed to allow a BWC infantry force the ability to air assault a spot and get inside without any orbital strike casualties.