ALS technologies, Inc. and Strategos International LLC. have entered into
a strategic partnership for the specific purpose of distributing this lastest generation
of Less Lethal Products.

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ALS is lead by David Alvirez who knows the danger of firearms. He knows the psychological and legal ramifications of shooting someone. A gunsmith who founded A.L.S. Technologies in 1996 in Bull Shoals, Arkansas, Alvirez had 23 years experience in military gunsmithing and award-winning shooting, including service with the Army's elite Delta Force and with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. He served in Panama, Granada, Korea and Saudi Arabia. Now Alvirez designs and manufactures non-lethal products which are sold primarily to law enforcement and security professionals.

Alvirez has developed a less-than-lethal bullet product line, which he calls his "Power Punch." Delivering a blow similar to what one might get in martial arts, the Power Punch, he said, "is like being hit with the equivalent of a .32-caliber automatic but it's spread over such a larger area that it doesn't penetrate." It can knock a person out, he said. "Part of our statement is that it should never be aimed at the head." The bullet, for a 12-gauge shotgun, primarily has been used by law enforcement, he said, but it was his intention in developing it that it would be for home defense. "We thought we could provide an alternative to taking a life. If you use this bag, you can say, 'I've given it every chance.' The next shot is your normal lethal round. This is to take control of the situation so you can allow the authorities to get there. People's attitudes change once they've been hit with that amount of force. It's called attitude adjustment ammunition. "

Alvirez is the son of a Green Beret - now 70, who carried the Olympic Torch in Raleigh, N.C. - who introduced his son to weaponry. David went into the service himself during Vietnam at the age of 17. He joined the 82nd Airborne Division (there were no openings for Green Berets then, he said) and went to jump school, spending a total of 15 years on and off with that division. His primary job was as weapons repairman. In late 1979 several of the men in his maintenance unit got into a shooting competition and, as a result, "I sort of changed my career."

He was picked up by the 82nd Airborne's marksmanship unit. "Then they found out I was a gunsmith, so I was not only shooting but I was gunsmithing, too. They sent me to the National Match Gunsmithing School in Rock Island, Ill. and then I was doing National Match repair." That led to his being picked up by the Army Pistol Team. "And they found out I was a gunsmith," he said. "While I was there, in 1979, we had the Iranian problem, where we went in to try to get the hostages out and the five helicopters went down. It highlighted a shortfall within the maintenance arena in our Special Operations Division, so they were looking for the best National Match gunsmiths." He was interviewed by what is now known as Delta Force and was put on special duty with them. 'He did not wear the Green Beret', he said. He did weapons repair.

"Sometimes they'd come up with a special requirement and we would sit down and draw stuff up and turn it over to the machinist. We did some pretty unique weapons combinations for the team." Delta Force had an entire maintenance crew such as communications experts, radio experts, people who worked with optic scopes. With their primary mission being anti-terrorism, they tried to glean the best of the military, Alvirez said.

"I never considered myself part of the elite. These guys put it on the line every time they went out. I was sitting back there knowing they were putting themselves on the line." But Alvirez wasn't always "sitting back there." He went into Grenada with operation Urgent Fury, and served two years in Korea as a first sergeant with a 225-man maintenance company where he helped sponsor an orphanage and adopted a daughter. He went in on the Arrowhead, the initial assault, for Operation Just Cause, where the mission was to take down the Panamanian regime, but to let the people reinstall a government with as little damage to the country as possible.

War, he said, "is what is commonly referred to as significant emotional events. A series of them. Gunfire. It's almost impossible to describe. It's like being in an accident every day of your life, and then having to look back at it over the day and ask yourself what could I have done differently, could I have saved that guy. You sleep with one eye open..." He was on 18-hour deployment for Saudi Arabia with the 82nd Airborne. The division worked together and fought together at home, in the air and on the ground.

"Being logistics," he said, "I always was out in the front force." He was on the plane Aug, 6, four days after the taking of Kuwait, and circling Germany, waiting for the OK to go in. "I was on the aircraft with the first 425 combat troops that hit the ground. Our mission was to secure the Dharan airfield." Then, it was to expand out and secure the port of entry for the Marine Corps. "We actually considered that a suicide mission," Alvirez said. "It was 425 against the Iraqi army. I don't think there were 10 dry eyes on that aircraft because we just knew we weren't coming back. Our battle cry was, 'Make them pay.' They were going to know they met the 82nd Airborne.

Alvirez spent several months in Saudi Arabia. "We went through sniper attacks. Our job was to cut off the Republican Guard to keep them from getting across the Euphrates valley." He was the convoy commander for the headquarters element. "Most our problems were with mines," he said. "But it was very short war because, once was initiated, it was with the full force and fury of the United States."

When Alvirez returned to North Carolina it was a master sergeant. He was selected for
E-9 and had received, through his career, the Army Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Army Achievement Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters and, at the end of his career, he was honored with the Legion of Merit, the highest peacetime medal that can be awarded and signed by the President. It was following his retirement that he fully developed the Power Punch.

Strategos International is proud to be associated with this excellent company and looks forward to serving you in the near future.

A.L.S Technologies
1103 Central Blvd. Bull Shoals, AR 72619
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