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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-19-2011, 04:37 PM
zuludelta
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Have we brought up known military backgrounds for Cobra? What do we know from Filecards?
Major Bludd - Australian SAS and Foriegn Legion
Tomax and Xamot -French Foreign Legion
Guillotine - Navy SEAL
Any Others?
Zartan's
original filecard
strongly hinted at the possibility that he graduated from
École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
(Special Military School of St. Cyr). The school is sort of like a cross between the US Military Academy ("West Point") and the US Army Command and General Staff College... it's an officer producing school (graduates receive the commission of 1st Lieutenant) but it only accepts bachelor's degree holders and awards a master's degree (depending on the specialty, the degree is either equivalent to an MSc in Management, an MSc in Strategic Studies, or an MSc in an engineering field).
If true, that makes him pretty accomplished... St. Cyr is considered one of the top military academies in the world. It also raises new questions about Zartan: Did he qualify for St. Cyr "as himself" or was it under an assumed identity? Also, St. Cyr only accepts either French college/university graduates (civilian or military) or foreign military officers who have been nominated for entry by their respective governments (just like in West Point, the latter comprise a very, very small number of the school's student population). What category of entrant did Zartan fall under? Did he pose as a French citizen and get in via the traditional screening and application method? Was he a US Army officer who was nominated for entry?
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