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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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10-17-2015, 02:49 PM
hardcorps
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Thanks, believe it or not but his career track (minus the prior enlisted) is a combination of 2 real Cavalry Officer / Rangers.
He isn't Infantry on any of his filecards. Just the same 3 MOS's; Artillery, Armor and Transportation. I'm still unsure about some of his career but from my research it seems that guys in the IBOLC (Infantry Leader Course) will do a few modules of the Armor Track these days just because of the increased usage of the Bradley IFV.
Both Armor Officers and Infantry can command Stryker units (I think) and these days there's alot of blending amongst the Combat Arms Officers. I've read that there were some Artillery units that were used as Infantry in Afghanistan & Iraq (they called them Infantillery units)
I went with Strykers because the Rangers have Strykers now. One Platoon in each company is a Mobility Platoon and according to the doctrine I read they're capable of transporting a whole company in Stryker Vehicles OR they can be used as a regular platoon.
It'd be easier to make him Infantry but to me it didn't feel right for the character. I did find there were some Armor trained Officers who ended up in Special Mission Units (like Peter Schoomaker) but they went Armor to Special Forces and Steeler didn't seem like a SF fit.
The next one on my list is Duke. I've done alot of background stuff already and boy they have him fluent in a ton of languages.
Oh and he'll be a junior to mid career Major when he joins the Joes.
Not sure about the Army, but in the Marine Corps, artillery and engineers train as infantry as well as the regular fields. Having USMC artillery patrol in Afghanistan and Iraq as infantry is very common. Probably more common than actually being cannon cockers.
Over the years, I have pondered the MOS issue (branch designation in the Army) for officers. Up until say WWII, although maybe earlier, WWI even, you didn't have all these permanent support fields. In the Marine Corps, officers were just officers, you didn't have separate branches or MOSes for them. But then being a Marine was sort of like being Cavalry or Infantry, it was its own specialized form of combat. Now, and in some ways since WWII, the operational difference between Marines and Army has disappeared. Sure, Marines are amphibious, but the Army can be at times if needed. The Army does helo assault, but so do we. Ditto on armored infantry. In the Marine Corps, an infantry officer could do a tour as a platoon commander in a boat company, doing rubber boat stuff, then next time around, be part of the amtrac company or even go to the LAR Bn and tool around in an LAV which is pretty much a Stryker.
really neat story for Steeler. That is what life is like for a junior officer, one school after another interupted by deployments.
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