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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-05-2011, 01:10 PM
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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.
Calling them posers is a little harsh. Larry made a lot of mistakes during the ARAH era and he was a veteran. Sometimes things get past the editors. Thing was DDP was trying to appeal to the whole fandom. They mentioned a lot of characters from Sgt. Savage and Extreme in their reserve member listings. Considering how inconsistent a character's filecard could be from figure to figure, I can overlook a typo or two. They also promoted Barrel-Roll to Lt. Which made more sense for a fixed wing pilot in the USAF.
Other than Coast Guard, no other US military service has had members graduate from BUD\S. Everyone else has to transfer to the Navy before going to BUD\S. The do let foreign military personnel go through, but they don't serve on the teams. They return home to share the knowledge with their units. Before 1983, you couldn't go to BUD\S to be a SEAL. You went for the CHANCE to be a SEAL. At graduation, you found out if you were going to be a UDT or SEAL. Training that made you a SEAL happened when got to your platoon. In 83', the UDT guys came to work and found that the letterhead was changed from UDT to SEAL or SDV team. After that it didn't matter; because, everyone was a SEAL.
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