Finally had an opportunity to snap a pic of the reader. Some asshole broke it off the pole it was mounted on. To my delight 
And new cards came in the mail last night. I’ll work on it to ought at work 
writing the authentication key to block 3…so the card from redteam is using the picopass default rather than the hid master. While the card is still in personalization mode, from what I gather on the proxmark forum, it’s a “true” write of the key to block 3 instead of the xor version of the key that would be necessary while in application mode. But, then how exactly do I put the card in application mode?
For the record, I have the same question posted over on the pm3 forum, but response times there aren’t quite what they are here. So, yea