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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-29-2009, 11:31 AM
zuludelta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Troynos
I think the Joe admin staff is full of no-name Brownshirts. I just can't see the unit "wasting" a frontline soldier on a desk job.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
lister
I never took the odd 2nd MOSs to mean that those jobs fell on those Joes.
My understanding is similar to lister's. I just assumed that the Joes were qualified in their secondary MOSes, but didn't actively pursue those duties in the course of their tenure with the GI Joe team. So a guy like Thunder, for example, is a qualified bandsman/drummer, but that doesn't mean he plays drums for some heretofore unseen "GI Joe band" when he's not laying down artillery fire in combat. I think for some Joe filecards, it was just an easy and convenient way for Hama to add personality or an ironic twist to the characters' backgrounds (e.g., Wildcard being a qualified Chaplain's Assistant).
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Troynos
I like Deep-Six. Is that David Bowie? Face looks familiar. I'd hate to have to wear that suit, talk about uncomfortable.
It's a young DeForest ("Dr. McCoy") Kelley. I can see the similarity to
Space Oddity
-era David Bowie, though. Yeah, and the Med-Eng EOD 9 Suit can get terribly hot. It's actually got fittings in the back that can be connected to an external air conditioning unit. I know they've been testing a variant of the suit in Iraq and Afghanistan, composed of only the helmet, upper body armour and air conditioning unit, to provide protection for HMMWV and FMTV machine gunners. I don't know if it's any cheaper or more practical than just using remote-operated weapons stations though.
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Troynos
I did like in DDP when Black-Out was getting courtmartialed that Airborne was the lawyer.
Airborne being a lawyer is just one of those things that I couldn't wrap my head around (at least once I learned more about how recruitment works). I just can't see how an Army recruiter would let a bar-qualified lawyer sign up as an enlisted man. He/She would would have done everything to get an Army-minded lawyer to go to Officer Candidate School instead and grab a direct officer's commission, or at least gotten him to go to Warrant Officer Candidate School. It's the equivalent of a medical doctor signing up in the Army as an enlisted man to become a field medic, instead of grabbing a direct commission to become a medical officer. It just doesn't happen in real life (or maybe it does, but I've never heard of it actually happening).
Quote:
Originally Posted by
blackrazor1
I think it could be from time spent with an airborne unit. But most likely it's just artistic license. If they painted the correct black color, it would blend into the vest and people would still be wondering what the heck it was.
Yeah, that's probably it. The 1986 Beach Head's gear was hard enough to decipher for me as a kid even without the lumpy vest (it was only years later, with my discovery of YoJoe.com, that I found out that the "umbrella" on his original backpack was supposed to be part of a scaled-down mine-clearing charge).
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