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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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12-31-2015, 10:25 AM
LowTech
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Quote:
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Tyroc
Hey guys, hope you're all enjoying the holiday season. I've started working on my fanfic which I'm now thinking of actually publishing thru Amazon's Kindle Worlds. So I've put my revamping of the Joe's careers a bit on the back burner.
Anyway, in regards to Duke and Grunt's MOS of Small Arms Repairer, I remember reading somewhere that in Grunt's original dossier by Hama, he planned on having him be an apprentice gunsmith as a civilian prior to enlistment. I'll try to find a link.
Edit - Here's the link
G.I. JOE GRUNT DOSSIER (1981) - THE VERY 1ST DOSSIER LARRY HAMA HAND-TYPED FOR GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO, in BenÂ*Smith's HAMA, LARRY Comic Art Gallery Room - 343570
As for Duke, I'm making him a graduate of the Naval Special Warfare Center - Crane's Weapons Maintenance Course. It's a joint course available to SOF from all branches. I think it satisfies the spirit of his filecard MOS whilst remaining contemporary and realistic.
NSWC Crane Teaches Weapons Maintenance to Joint Forces
I just can't imagine a guy like Duke (or Beach Head) as combat support or service support at any point of their careers.
As for Flash, I remember creating the perfect realistic backstory for him whilst I was in hospital last month but now I can't remember what the hell it was. I vaguely remember making him a 91G attached to USSOCOM (SF Groups don't have any 91G billets even at the group level from a Table of Organization & Equipment I found, circa 2010/2012). He then becomes a SF Communicator whilst maintaining an active interest in weapons repair and electronics repair in the field.
As an aside, has anyone noticed that the Club seems to make all the SF guys weapons sergeants?. C'mon, if you're gonna be SF, it doesn't matter what specific specialty you're gonna have, they'll all be cross trained to some degree and there's a high chance of most of them being gun enthusiasts to begin with (which is how I see Zap; a SF engineer who's fascinated with anti-armor weapons)
Also, I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I found making most of the OG13 SF makes it easier for me to write about it terms of career progression. I found a manual on US Army Career Paths
http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/p600_25.pdf
Great links! But re-reading the Grunt dossier raises a question or two, particularly about Stalker's peer assessment of him. Grunt comes across as a guy who can perform when he has to, but lacks the initiative and drive to either excel in Ranger School or even volunteer for it in the firs place (depending on how you read it). That may be a solid troop in a conventional rifle squad, but not the type of guy to end up in a unit like Joe. It's very different from what made his file card: "Grunt is a highly motivated, systematic individual . . ."
Quote:
Originally Posted by
john shaft
Here is some of the 84 lineup:
Recondo: 11B Infantryman, 18B SF Weapons, and/or 18F SF Intelligence Sergeant. Him being Special Forces only makes sense since he has "Intelligence" listed on his filecard and the fact he is depicted working with indigenous groups.
Spirit: 11B Infantryman
While I frame Joe as having fewer troops entering via the green beret stream, Spirit is one who I can see coming in that route, either as a medical sergeant or as a weapons sergeant (based on his sniper training). But then the weapons sergeant specialty is, as noted above, overdone. If you want to mix in a little windtalker history (especially as Spirit could either be a Navajo or a Pueblo) he could be a comms sergeant.
In Recondo's case I think it would have to be "and," not "or," as I believe (according to this:
Special Forces Assistant Ops & Intelligence Sgt. (MOS 18F)
) that you can only become an intelligence sergeant after doing one of the "entry" SF specialties. And given, yet again, the talk of weapons sergeants, here's a thought: make him a comms sergeant. In Marvel's ARAH he was sent into Sierra Gordo alone. He'd need a pretty good knowledge in rigging antennae to conduct long-range comms from mountainous jungle (a terrible comms environment) to the continental USA, and all the challenges of relocating and re-rigging to adapt for changing atmospheric and tactical situations.
On a different note, Happy New Year to all of you!
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