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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-20-2009, 01:42 PM
Troynos
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Northwood, NH
Posts: 35,747
Hey guys, check out this bit from this months Joecanuck newsletter:
"Customizing your universe.
By Charles Cushman (
[email protected]
)
What is the G.I. Joe universe to you? Is it the comic? The Cartoon? The Movie? Do your joes fly around in space or fight on the battlefield? Do
they fight insurgents in Iraq or giant mutated plants? You don't need to create your own universe for Joe. They are toys, after all - they don't
have to make sense. But as a grown up who still has a bit of his imagination left, it's an interesting intellectual exercise, and I enjoy making the
Joe world make sense to me.
I am a government employee. There - I admitted it. I spend a lot of time thinking about how government works and how groups within it work. I
decided that I would do some research, and make my G.I. Joe team work like it would have to work in the real world. Using books like "Shadow
Warriors" by Tom Clancy and some Wikipedia research, I was able to piece together the following description of my Joe team.
General Integration Joint Operations Exercise.
The purpose of my JOE team is the proving of integration and combined arms and joint force doctrine for the purposes of enhancing force
integration.
At least that's what the operational statement says. They actually use the funding from the JFK special training budgetary allocation to conduct
domestic and foreign covert military anti-terror operations, which is usually a legislative no no. They have no house oversight, and have never
been considered to be part of SOC/JSOC/USSOCOM. They are not an operational team and do not have a stand up state of readiness. They
operate under the special training provisions in the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Nunn-Cohen Act, and a special presidential order that goes
back to the Kennedy Administration. In the Hierarchy of command, they operate out of the JFK special warfare center, which is the only place
on the military hierarchy that they could operate and still "answer to the president" without being part of the typical chain of command.
They get their equipment from private contractors as "evaluation material" or through reciprocal agreements with USSOCOM so they don't
manage a Table of Equipment. They are paid through the JFK special training budgetary allocation, and each member of the team is considered a
military instructor on special assignment. The Greenshirts and Steel Brigade are members of the normal military rank and file who, for the
purposes of their Career Sheets are participating in "training exercises".
Rank structure is completely different because of the nature of the "operational exercise" designation. Each member of the team is a training
instructor on special assignment they all hold a similar rank of instructor or specialist (similar to professors at a university) for the purposes of
chain of command (though they aren't paid the same). Duke might report to Dusty on an operation because the nature of the "training operation"
design discards rank. Anyone of any rank can be put at the head of an operational training group, based on specific knowledge of the subject
matter.
Intel comes from the maintenance of reciperical agreements with NSA, NRO and Homeland Security. They have a contract with each agency to
transfer the data between agencies, and skim all the best intel off the top. The team was created as an Army based 13 man Special Detachment A,
with a special exemption for Scarlett, as women were not able to participate on Special Ops teams by legislative restriction. Once the operational
plan was approved, they brought in a Marine, Air Force Captain, Navy Seal, and a few other specializations in order for the official purposes of
"developing joint force doctrine". They kept on adding area specialists from different branches.
Note that the team was RIF'd in '94 because it's secret nature made it a dumping ground for every black budget legislatively questionable pork
barrel project in the Pentagon. They ended up having to take on the maintenance of an inefficiently designed mini aircraft carrier, a mobile
Nuclear Weapons truck, a weaponized space shuttle, and bunch of other stuff too controversial for the regular military. The cost for maintaining
the equipment eventually became too large to hide in the black budget. They were shut down as part of the Clinton era Reductions in Force, as an
"egregious waste of the taxpayers funding and a ridiculous waste of training dollars". They were reinstated post 911, as a coordinating body, and
are officially GIJOE II.
Now that is frankly a little obsessive compulsive - but it suits my personality and tastes just fine. If you're looking to define your own universe,
here are a few questions to get you started.
1. Military or Sci Fi?
Is your Joe team a military team, or a super future adventure force? Do they carry lasers or guns? Can anyone pick up a jetpack and fly?
2. Humans or Humans + ?
Do aliens and snake creatures from the ancient past exist in your world? Do clones, venomized troops and mega monsters come out of your
Cobra labs?
3. Serious or Comedic?
Is cobra commander a bumbler who is constantly foiled by the joe team, or a ruthless mastermind in control of a deadly terrorist organization?
4. Do people die?
Does your universe support the death of certain characters, or do they bounce back from a "mere flesh wound".
Start there, and run with it. Creating your own universe helps you think about the toys in a new context. You might end up liking or taking an
interest in parts of the line that you never cared about, or being able to close the book on parts that don't fit in your universe. Either way, you’ll
have fun doing it."
Sounds like a guy right up our alley. Anyone know if he's a tanker? Might drop him a line and have him come visit the thread. Another "voice" to hear from.
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