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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-18-2009, 08:50 PM
zuludelta
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I figure Tunnel Rat is a Ranger who's been crosstrained as an EOD. So when they're out and come across an IED or need a bomb rigged or something, Tunnel Rat is the guy they call.
That's as good an explanation as any for Tunnel Rat's role with the team. IIRC, in his original filecard, his second military specialty is infantry, thus bypassing the whole "EODs don't advance with the infantry" discrepancy. I just got the new Tunnel Rat figure (the one that comes with Storm-Shadow in a comic pack) and it seems they've amended his background by listing his primary military specialty as combat engineer, which is more in line with how he's been portrayed in the comics (and his "job" has been changed from EOD to "explosives expert"}.
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I still don't have a good place for the Flamethrowers. What were they used for in the military? Still don't have 'em nowadays? I know it was never a primary "speciality" or anything like that, but there were guys with flamethrowers in 'Nam and WW2.
ninja6fett pretty much nailed it. Even though no "official" Geneva Convention ban ever came down on flamethrowers, almost all modern armies have stopped using flamethrowers because of their cruel and inhumane nature as weapons. I think the last two countries to "officially" use flamethrowers against people were the US (in Vietnam) and the USSR (in Afghanistan). I do remember some US servicemen using some vintage M2 flamethrowers in the Philippines in the mid-1980s (so it was apparent that some units still had leftover flamethrowers in their armories at least up 'til then), but only as a way to clear thick jungle brush.
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