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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-11-2016, 11:49 AM
Tyroc
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john shaft
Right now I have six named Joes on my EOD team: Tripwire, Lightfoot, Tunnel Rat, Long Arm, Deep Six (Navy EOD) and Depth Charge (Navy EOD). Although i am on the fence with Tunnel Rat. his filecard specifically states "EOD" but he could also be a Combat Engineer who attended the EOCA course. Although from my understanding EOCA-trained can only dispose of certain items, not as much as an actual EOD MOS can.
Thank you for the info! I have it clear in my mind where I want to put them now (like you I will put them in the Combat Support Squadron). It does make the most sense as my Joes are Tier 1 operators (like you previously mentioned).
One of my other issues is what to do about Flash. From his filecards we gather he is an Infantryman, CBRN Specialist, Fire Control Repairer (would tie in with "Electronics" on his first filecard) and a Communications Officer. Obviously in real life he could not have gone through four MOS's (I know "Communications Officer" is not an MOS but it would tie in with a Signals Corps MOS) so what to keep and what to drop? Since I want him to have unique skills I decided to drop the Infantryman MOS leaving me with three. My thoughts were he started out in CBRN and then moved on to Special Forces Communications Sergeant (would drop the Fire Control Repairer) and have him interested in electronics as a side hobby. Even with that kind of background I am not sure whether to stick him on my CBRN team or as an RTO Operator on an Assault Troop.
Tyroc since your Joe Team seems to resemble a Tier 1 organization what missions do your Sabre Squadrons perform? Are they both Direct Action and Special Reconnaissance or just Direct Action? I am trying to figure out whether to make mine perform both or have a separate SR Squadron for that role. If both then the Joe Operators Training pipeline would need to teach new Joes the finer skills of SR. I want to use Grunt as an example. If he indeed just came strictly from an Infantry branch and did not have a lot of other training (in effect he is just a "grunt") then he would hardly have any exposure on how to perform SR missions so he would obviously need to be taught some SR skills (provided the that is something the Sabre Squadrons perform).
Flash has been giving me fits for awhile, like almost all the original 13 he has too many MOS's and trying to come up with a plausible career trajectory that would lead him to becoming a Joe has been tough, especially in trying to remain within the spirit of the filecards and other character bio information.
The best I could come up with is to drop or at least marginalize his CBRN background, this part of his career was never used much by Hama or any of the other writers as far as I can remember. To my mind, first and foremost he's a laser trooper, not a Chemical Reconnaissance Support guy or even a Signaler, he's a front line guy who just happens to be able to fix almost anything electronic in the field, so that's how I'm going to use him in my 'verse / fan fic.
As for the SR/DA missions, John. My Sabre teams are kind of both. The SR missions they perform though, are short duration leading into a strike mission for the most part. I have a dedicated LRRP troop (Stalker, Recoil, Sneak Peek, Armadillo types) who perform longer term surveillance missions. They're attached to the Intelligence Squadron.
So for example, one of the spy agencies gets intel that a Somali warlord has got his hands on some stolen hi-tech sniper rifles and is about to on-sell to Boko Haram, the Joes intel unit sends out a small team to land in-country and set up a forward monitoring base, someone like Chuckles and Lady Jaye will go in under Non-Official cover to rent cars, lease storage, apartments and things, whilst Stalker, Recoil and Sneak Peek infiltrate and surveil the area, try to get eyes on the weapons, scout the area for where best to land a Blackhawk or is it easier to lase the target and get a Drone to take out the Warlord's hideout. Since it's so close to civilians, they have to do a raid, so they spend some time watching, waiting, building up a pattern of life, basically 'Find and Fix' the target.
A troop from one of the Sabre teams will conduct the raid and 'Finish' the target whilst Stalker's team either stays to observe, catch anyone trying to escape or anyone returning to the scene of the crime as it were to 'Exploit and Analyze'. Hope that makes sense?
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