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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-12-2010, 07:59 PM
oliverbox
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I always saw him as a Green Beret (not least because that's what he wears all the time!).
As an aside, you guys in the US have a surplus of "special forces" (as opposed to our SAS, SBS and Paras) and it's quite hard to work out the relative difficulty of joining\moving on from any of them.
Anyway, from my (admittedly lacking foreign understanding ;) being a Ranger, or Special Forces (i.e. Green Beret) seemed like it would be a natural progression to join the Joes. Navy SEALs seemed like they'd be taking a sideways step (same sorts of skills and ops, but they have specialist skills so would be useful to GI Joe), and Delta seemed to do pretty much the same thing so the question is would anyone migrate from Delta (assuming Delta even exists in the GI Joe universe)?
Well, we've had some discussion about this recently.
In the U.S., we have Tiers of Special Ops units
The top tier - Tier 1 - is Delta Force, the ISA, DevGru, and the 24th Airforce "Whatever it's Called". All these units are primarily focused on Counter-Terrorism, but they do all kinds of missions. They are roughly analogous to the UK's SAS/SBS/SRR. They are our "best of the best of the best", but there are very few of them.
Delta = SAS
DevGru = SBS
ISA = SRR
Then in our Second Tier, we have Army Special Forces (Green Berets), Navy SEALs, Marine MARSOC.
These guys are really the backbone of our Special Operations. They do differnt missions.
Then in our third Tier - Air Force Pararescue, and Combat Controllers. Army Airborne Rangers, 160th SOAR, 4th Psy Ops, 95th Civil Affairs, etc.
The Rangers are sort of the exception to this bunch - they are the Sharp end of the Stick, so to speak. The Rangers are almost like Army Special Forces, and are excellent Fighters. They just have a more traditional Infantry mission. The rest of these units act in Support roles for Special Operations.
The Rangers are roughly comprable to the Paras/Royal Marines.
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