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05-19-2011, 12:42 AM | #1831 |
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05-19-2011, 12:54 AM | #1832 |
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I can't wait to see who turns out to be who. I suppose this unit is led by 6 Officers and 5 warrant Officers
Hawk; Falcon; Claymore; Steeler; Courage; Bullet-Proof? Flint; Torpedo; Wet-Down?(I guess some promotions are coming?) So will you be leaving out the ladies? I love the Warpig as the HAVOK, although it's too bad you can't call in Warthog, as a nod. (Warfare, Application, Regional, Tactical, Heavy, Off-Road, Global) But who cares, I think it serves well as the HAVOK which in the end may have been a more popular toy. No one would have known it was called the warpig if you hadn't told us. Can't wait for more.
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05-19-2011, 01:03 AM | #1833 |
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The warrant officers will be Flint, Torpedo, and three people I'll be "promoting": Scarlett, Lady Jaye, and Chuckles (because independent/detached CI/HUMINT/CID teams normally operate with WOs, and not senior NCOs, as their heads). I'm still using Wetdown but will be "demoting" him to a senior NCO (so he's less of a Torpedo clone). Quote:
Can't wait for more.
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05-19-2011, 01:20 AM | #1834 |
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So will you be leaving out the ladies?
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05-19-2011, 01:59 AM | #1835 |
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Beautiful work Zulu!!! I LOVED your take on Budo and SS!
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05-19-2011, 03:20 AM | #1836 |
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Awesome job Z! I love this new cut down version. I'm glad you're going back to your original pared down concept.
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05-19-2011, 05:58 AM | #1837 |
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I knew you used Chuckles, Scarlett, and Lady Jaye as Warrant Officers, I just wasn't sure you still would have women in this unit. The reason I know is because to stole that shit like a Dingo steals babies for my own Joeverse. Although now I moved Scarlett up to Captain.
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05-19-2011, 12:44 PM | #1838 |
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Thanks. SS was one of the earliest ones I did. I've since considered making a version that looks less ninja-ey and more like somebody who could pass for an ex-military private security contractor-type... maybe have him in a white suit, that type of thing, but I don't know how well that would go over.
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I knew you used Chuckles, Scarlett, and Lady Jaye as Warrant Officers, I just wasn't sure you still would have women in this unit. The reason I know is because to stole that shit like a Dingo steals babies for my own Joeverse. Although now I moved Scarlett up to Captain.
As for the women in the unit, yeah, I've been trying to find parallels in the US military for mixed "near combat" units that have females. The US Army's BfSBs are one (mixed-gender military intelligence companies supplemented by all-male cavalry scout squadrons/infantry scout companies). The Air Force's 820th Base Defense Group's Combat Operations Squadron is another... I don't know if there actually are any female airmen in the 820th BDG, but AFAIK, there aren't any formal restrictions against them being assigned there. In many ways, the Air Force is at the forefront of allowing women to serve in limited combat roles (as Security Forces personnel in the expeditionary force protection context)... they're the first and only branch of service to offer a "sniper-like" training school that's open to female service members (US Army and USMC MPs and CID agents, Navy Masters-at-arms, USAF Security Forces and OSI agents) via the USAF's Countersniper/Close Precision Engagement School and they've had enlisted women serving in AFSC-coded aerial gunner positions for a few years now (still, while the USAF is at the forefront in opening up career options for the female gender in the US military, on the whole, the States is still playing catch-up with many other NATO countries, like Canada and Germany, which have lifted many of the old gender-based restrictions preventing women from serving in some combat roles... the higher physical fitness, weapons and combatives proficiency, and all other requirements for entry into direct combat roles stay the same in both countries, so it's not like the infantry and other combat arms branches of those nations are being "weakened" in any objective way). Last edited by zuludelta; 05-19-2011 at 01:28 PM.. |
05-23-2011, 04:20 AM | #1839 |
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Okay, here are the first three chapters of the GIJOE document: Chapter I is the Introduction, Chapter 2 is on Organization; and Chapter 3 is on Recruitment, Selection, and Training. 25 pages, which is much, much reduced (prior to this, Chapters 2 and 3 took up 140 pages by themselves).
I've since retitled it as a "Primer" instead of an Operations document, since I'm obviously taking out all the super-detailed military nerd stuff. I'd like to think that I've struck a good balance between putting in enough detail that somebody who's coming in cold, without a military background, will get a sense of what's what, but it's not so detailed that it gets confusing or boring. And for the folks reading who do have some firsthand military knowledge/experience, I hope they see enough detail to notice that this isn't just some slapdash, let-me-pull-something-out-of-my-ass-and-make-shit-up thing. Anyway, this will probably be the last update I post for a while, since I'll be re-working the actual files/dossiers and updating images from here on out, and I don't want to "spoil" the final document. I'm probably going to go to a format that's closer to the old ARAH filecards in terms of the dossiers... whereas my earlier take on the files were loaded with details like training schools attended and such, I think I'll be able to focus more on personal and career history details since I've more or less listed everybody's relevant collective training in Chapters 2 and 3... if it's not listed in detail in either of those chapters, it's covered under my new favourite sentence in the document "... the GIJOE Commanding Officer and the G1/N1/A1, with advice and input from the Composite Unit Senior Enlisted Adviser and the DSCA Operations Directorate, agree on the standards for selection for each position, to include occupational specialty/rating requirements and other administrative, technical, and functional considerations... " which is basically my way of saying, the details happened "off-screen," and you'll just have to trust me on this BTW, if any of you guys reading the sample catch any typos (spelling, grammatical, content), let me know... I installed a new dictionary in my copy of OpenOffice and it borked my custom spellchecker, and I haven't been able to rollback to the last working config yet. Thanks for looking! |
05-23-2011, 09:38 AM | #1840 |
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I really like this setup. It's flexible, agile, and adaptive. I appreciate that you worked it out so that there aren't any characters who sit around with their thumbs up their asses waiting on something to do with their limited expertise. Now, these characters can be task assigned in many different ways and that inherently makes them more interesting (most of the Force Protection Platoon). I thought you made clever use of the "Renegades" team and the Special Security Activities Cell is a cool nod to the IDW timeline. Also, good work on consolidating the redundant training information and I look forward to the expanded character specific details.
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