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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-16-2009, 05:03 AM
zuludelta
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The office is looking nice. Can't wait to see the below-ground stuff, though. When I was a kid, I was a real sucker for all those diagram-y type illustrations and whatnot.
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Troynos
Zulu,
I like how you're using Mercer and Snake-Eyes. Makes alot of sense given Mercer's past and Snake-Eyes' disability. Colton and Jane work good that way as well. Colton has to be able to have alot of pull with the command core of the Joes.
The primary reason as to why I finally went with a small cell of CIA operatives attached to the GI Joe team is that it gives the team "true" covert operations capability. I think a lot of people assume that DoD agencies and departments can conduct covert operations (by which I mean operations which can be plausibly denied by the US government). However, constitutional and international law safeguards prohibit the Department of Defense from conducting deniable operations (for good reason... all that firepower plus a layer of extra-legal protection in one government department/agency is just too much power in one office), although they can still conduct clandestine operations. There's an important difference between the two: clandestine operations and covert operations are both "secret" & "stealthy" but it is only the latter that the sponsoring agency or government can deny any complicity in. I like to think of Snake-Eyes and Mercer as being the deniable assets on the team who do the dirty work that their DoD brethren won't or can't. And it's also the main reason why I won't be adding any more core collectors or paramilitary operations officers to the team... the Joe team in my Joe-verse is still a military organization and not an association of hitmen, assassins, snitches, and assorted spooks; an organization that follows the rule of domestic and international law. I like to think of Mercer and particularly Snake-Eyes as weapons of last resort, the final intelligence gathering and direct action options, respectively, when all other lawful alternatives have been explored and exhausted.
Opening up the roster to more than just the four armed services (Army, USAF, USN, USMC) is something that I think will work with certain characters I've yet to write filecards for. I'm not talking about having active federal marshals or long-term non-training exchanges with the SAS and SASR or any of the other roster weirdness that came post-1990. I've already gone through with having a small contingent of Office of Terrorism Analysis/Clandestine Service CIA employees on the team and I'm also opening up the Joe team to the other Department of Defense organizations that have some measure of special operations or special operations support capability. Way I figure, if JSOC can be convinced to allow a non-DoD operative like Cutter on the team (he maybe a top USCG officer, but the fact remains that the USCG isn't under the umbrella of the DoD except under congressional or presidential orders), then they should be a lot more open to the idea of getting qualified non-military DoD personnel to fill certain positions.
Here's a list of candidate non-military DoD organizations that could end up "contributing" a GI Joe team member or three:
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency's Antiterrorism/Force Protection Directorate
- They have their own Emergency Response Team, which receives equivalent training to the Army and USMC MP branches' Special Reaction Teams.
Defense Criminal Investigative Service
- the "mother" of service-specific DoD investigative services like Army CID, NCIS, and AFOSI... they have their own Special Operations Investigative Program which consists of Undercover Operations, Criminal Intelligence, and Sensitive Cases & Security.
Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization
- a relatively new Department of Defense organization that is comprised of a unique combination of civilian and military IED and EOD experts.
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