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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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09-11-2015, 07:22 AM
Tanksmasher
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Thanks guys!
The font is called veteran type which resembles an old military typewriter font with faded letters, but when I uploaded the PDF to google doc the bold font came out blurry. It looks more crisp on the spreadsheet and when it's printed. The "classified" font is called Top Secret and whatever you type comes out in bold uppercase between two lines to resemble a stamp. I wanted an authentic but slightly dated look.
I agree I tried to put too much in the top lines. I don't like where the height / weight and other data sit to the bottom right of the top section. I should probably move family status, religion, and other appearance data to the second page. I scoured through Officer and Enlisted Record Briefs for the Army and other documents for the Navy and such to see what kind of information to include in the dossier. I left out some stuff that wouldnt have added much to the character development and would've made the dossier harder to read. I want a nice blend between the classic Joe look and an official military file. Obviously one has to take creative liberty with stuff like marital status, children, religion, height, etc so I just filled in whatever for now.
I treat a workbook as a single dossier or folder and each spreadsheet within the workbook is a page or file in the dossier. The first page I showed for Snake Eyes is the Bio summary. It summarizes the most important data about the character's branch, rank, etc. The other pages are more comprehensive but I'm still compressing information and revising the formatting.
The drop down menus or combo boxes have lists of various information. For example, there's a tab for each armed service (USA, USAF, USN, USMC, USCG) and each one is set up to enter data for that service. Inside each service tab are additional tabs for Officer, Warrant Officer, and Enlisted. And within those tabs are menus for data related to that type. So if you select Army and Enlisted, you would then select a career management field (Armor, Field Artillery, Infantry, Special Forces...) from the combo box and your selection will determine what list shows up in the next combo box under Primary MOS. So if you select Infantry under CMF, you would see a list for Infantryman, Indirect Fire Infantryman, Infantry Senior Sergeant, and so on under PMOS. I've entered all the possible CMFs for enlisted and Branches for officers and warrants and all their associated MOS and AOC respectively, so there's a lot of data entry for this project, especially when you start listing the MOSs for Marines, NECs and NOBCs for Navy, and AFSCs for the Air Force. Each service also uses different names when referring to career fields and specialties so I've tried to reflect that, as well as create room for other pertinent data. For example, the Army enlisted have SQIs (Special Qualification Identifiers) and ASIs (Additional Skill Identifiers) whereas officers have Special Skills, which are similar to SQIs and ASIs. The Navy and Marines and Air Force don't have these but they have other skill coding that I've included. All the data entry is time consuming (just look at all the Navy Enlisted Classifications) but it's gonna be pretty comprehensive when it's all done. And if I forgot to add something in a list, the combo boxes allow you to write something in. So for Army MOS, I only have current modern MOS, but you could type in an old obsolete MOS like 11H or some GI Joe "specialty" which may not have a real-world equivalent.
When I get a chance I'll try to get some more pics up. I'll also try to get some more info up about my org. I've revised SE's role a lot. Right now he belongs to my Special Forces In-Extremis or "crisis response" Company dedicated to Advanced Recon, Target Analysis & Exploitation Techniques, which essentially is a Delta-ish company trained for hostage rescue and CQC.
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