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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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08-25-2016, 06:31 AM
AgentSpook
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
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The thing with Shipwreck is that he can used one of two ways: The way his filecard suggests, which is as an experienced Navy crewman serving on a Joe naval vessel or base, or the way he's frequently depicted in various media, as a frontline Joe warfighter. The former is well served by him being a Gunner's Mate, or even a Special Warfare Boat Operator if you really want him to have Special Forces training, while SEAL training suits the latter. In my fiction, he's SEAL-trained and works with the Joe team in the same way DEVGRU works under JSOC, frequently taking a lead when the mission entails an amphibious assault, but that's mainly because I didn't know about the SWCCs until today :-D The skill set involved offers some interesting possibilities.
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john shaft
Not sure if it is typical for a Seaman to go through three ratings in their career or not (in Shipwreck's case Machinist-Gunner-SEAL) so it is up to the individual whether to drop one of them or not.
Based on a quick search, seems you can switch ratings, it's just difficult and dependent on how many sailors with that rating the Navy has. The exceptions appears to be the SEALs and the SWCCs; if you're good enough, they'll give you a shot. You just have to be
really
good.
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Deep-Six almost seems like a Navy Diver but I do not have a place for a Joe who does repairs on large ships and such. So I use him as Navy EOD instead.
While it IS an Engineering rating, looks like the Navy Diver rating is more about having the skills for deep sea diving, and less about what you do with them. That would include underwater demolitions disposal, but with the master diver qualification, Deep Six would also be the one brought to oversee on any Joe diving missions, including the in-water elements of the Joe SEAL teams missions, and to undertake any deep-sea diving.
He's also got a secondary specialty on the original file-card is Small Craft Pilot... which doesn't map to any clear rating. I'd have as an Electronics Technician Navigation (ETV) before switching to Navy Diver, as that's the rating for being a submarine helmsman and the best fit for piloting and maintaining the SHARC.
I'd say that Rampart's Air Defense Artillery specialty would probably fit the Fire Controlman rating better, as they're the one who operate the missile systems. Shoreline Defender sounds like distinctly made up.
I like Master-at-Arms for Topside. The Navy really needs their own representative on the Joe MPs.
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