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06-16-2016, 08:15 AM
LowTech
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I assume that ALL Joes are both airborne and free fall qualified (in the comics they were all doing free fall jumps . . . I seem to recall in the cartoon they were all ejecting from planes, but I don't think that counts!) - some are just more practiced at it than others, not only doing jumpmaster & rigger tasks but also pushing the boundaries of HALO/HAHO tests and trialing things like jet packs, hang gliders, squirrel suits and ultralights.
Airborne isn't one of those guys. I always saw (and used) him as either a helicopter gunner or a crew chief, with the secondary role of infantry. Maybe he came to Joe via the 101st. Or maybe it was via 160th SOAR (as an aside, I saw Wild Bill as coming from 6th Special Operations Squadron -
6th SOS performs unique mission worldwide > Air Force Special Operations Command > Article Display
).
On Snow Job, I never saw him doing conventional army time. I saw him as a special recruitment job, brought straight into Joe and trained by Joe (I've made a similar argument elsewhere: having an infantry background prior to joining a special unit is irrelevant as the unit will train you. Most Rangers haven't served in another unit before joining 75th - that's their first unit. And SEALs don't do any infantry training before selection). He's a cold weather specialist, but he can be used anywhere. With his biathlon background I usually slid him in to a sniper role. As a figure he suffers the same problem as the SEALs in that he's dressed for one environment. But he can be employed anywhere - just like the SAS could employ Mountain Troop guys in the African jungle or SEALs could be employed in landlocked Afghanistan.
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