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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-05-2011, 11:28 AM
oliverbox
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zuludelta
So I was re-reading issue #28 of DDP's GI Joe
(vol.2)
when I came across the panel introducing
Depth Charge
. In it, he's introduced as "Sgt. Nick Langdon."
So does this mean he's not a SEAL as we've all assumed, but is instead, I dunno, an Army Engineer Diver or (less likely, because they don't do underwater demo as much) a Marine Recon Man? Or is this just a typo/a demonstration of DDP writer Brandon Jerwa's unfamiliarity with military rank?
I'm leaning towards the latter myself... it has to be an error of some kind on Jerwa's part... if a character's job is "UDT (Underwater Demolitions Team)," the character has to be Navy, since UDTs were Navy units. Expecting otherwise would be like calling a character a "Ranger" and then revealing that the character is a Marine (yes, I know Force Recon Marines will occasionally go to Ranger School, but we're talking typical cases here, and besides, when I think "Ranger," I think of the members of the 75th Ranger Regiment whom successfully passed RASP, and not necessarily non-Regiment graduates of Ranger School)
Larry Hama made several attempts to try and add realism to the Joe Team... sometimes, however, it seems like his knowledge was from an era that was long since passed. But he tried.
DDP was a bunch of posers. They didn't know the first thing about how the military worked. It was a mess of continuity. Depth Charge is in the Navy. UDT is only for the Navy. Occasionally, they used to let some Army Rangers and SF Operators go through BUD/S - like an interservice exchange because the Army let's them use Airborne school and Ranger school - but even then, all those guys went to serve with the SEALs, not the UDT's.
It's just ridiculous.
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