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04-20-2009, 01:24 AM | #4921 |
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Yeah, the early filecards were really great. I learned most of my American geography from looking up the birthplaces on my atlas. Some of the flavour text, like Outback's acronym detailing one and Beach Head's "he doesn't get mad he gets even," I can still recite from memory (not the best trick for impressing the ladies, but it will make you insta-buddies with most any male who grew up during the 1980s ).
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04-20-2009, 01:28 AM | #4922 |
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I wonder why we haven't had any Joes from the GSG-9? I mean, we had Russian Joes (Big Bear AND Red Star) practically during the Cold War? The Red Brigade was a serious threat in Europe and GSG-9 got a lot of Press coverage. I wonder why that never happened? He could have been an excellent SWAT looking figure... sort of like Night Force Shockwave, maybe with goggles.
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04-20-2009, 01:30 AM | #4923 |
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One of the later ones I like is Hard Drive: YOJOE.COM | Filecard Gallery - Hard Drive
It's Extra cheese with the MIT stuff, but you get medic, communication, and small arms armorer. Plus his SMS is Special Services. Sounds like there even more there lurking. Come to think of it, How many other MIT grads are there? Tollbooth, Grunt, Mainframe? MIT vs the "Ranking Chess Masters" |
04-20-2009, 01:38 AM | #4924 |
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One of the later ones I like is Hard Drive: YOJOE.COM | Filecard Gallery - Hard Drive
It's Extra cheese with the MIT stuff, but you get medic, communication, and small arms armorer. Plus his SMS is Special Services. Sounds like there even more there lurking. Come to think of it, How many other MIT grads are there? Tollbooth, Grunt, Mainframe? MIT vs the "Ranking Chess Masters" West Point has several Grads, but the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy only have one Representative. VMI is Gen. Flagg's Alma Mater, but no Joe is from the Citadel... that's very strange to me. It would be really nice to see a few colleges represented, especially ones with strong military ties.
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04-20-2009, 01:41 AM | #4925 |
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If we did get a new SAS character, an officer from Sandhurst would be great.
A Royal Marine/SBS Officer from Cambridge or Oxford would be pretty cool... or an MI5/6 or Scotland Yard character from St. Andrew's would be neat.
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04-20-2009, 01:52 AM | #4926 |
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I guess it's because GSG-9 didn't really have a lot of public traction back in the day. Heck, they're still relatively unknown outside of military circles, people who read up on politics, and militaria hobbyists, unlike say, Delta Force or the SAS. Offhand, I think the "public knowledge ranking" of the various spec-ops military/gendarmerie/police units around the world goes something like this, at least from the people I've talked to (with the most publicly known at the head of the list):
- British SAS - US Army Special Forces - US Army Rangers - US Navy SEALs - Russian Spetsnaz - German GSG-9 - French GIGN - Australian SAS - Israeli Sayeret Matkal - Hong Kong SDU - German KSK Granted, my perspective probably greatly differs from those living in the US. Quote:
- Martial Arts - Chess - Engineers and engineering schools Stuff he doesn't like: - lawyers - accountants - politicians - more lawyers |
04-20-2009, 01:58 AM | #4927 |
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I guess it's because GSG-9 didn't really have a lot of public traction back in the day. Heck, they're still relatively unknown outside of military circles, people who read up on politics, and militaria hobbyists, unlike say, Delta Force or the SAS. Offhand, I think the "public knowledge ranking" of the various spec-ops military/gendarmerie/police units around the world goes something like this, at least from the people I've talked to (with the most publicly known at the head of the list):
- British SAS - US Army Special Forces - US Army Rangers - US Navy SEALs - Russian Spetsnaz - German GSG-9 - French GIGN - Australian SAS - Israeli Sayeret Matkal - Hong Kong SDU - German KSK Granted, my perspective probably greatly differs from those living in the US. Doesn't Canada have some Special Operations Units? Tell me about the German KSK. I don't know anything about them.
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04-20-2009, 02:37 AM | #4928 |
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Yeah, the JTF2 (Joint Task Force 2) and the 427 SOAS (Special Operations Aviation Squadron).
JTF2 is basically a counter-terrorist unit patterned after the SAS composed of specially trained men and women from the Canadian Forces. Canada doesn't have separate Army, Navy, and Air Force departments like the US and many other NATO countries, what we have is a unified military force composed of different commands: Land Forces Command, Maritime Command, Air Command, Expeditionary Command, Special Forces Command, and Information Operations Command. JTF2 is administratively under the Special Forces Command, but draws its members from all the commands, not just those already serving under the Special Forces Command. 427 SOAS is basically the Canadian equivalent of the US Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Night Stalkers). The government is in the process of developing a new Spec-ops group called the CSOR (Canadian Special Operations Regiment) to supplement and complement JTF2. JTF2 is specifically trained for counter-terrorism actions, but they're not really equipped to deal with other types of special operations like FID (foreign internal defense) and unconventional warfare, and CSOR is supposed to fill that gap. Quote:
EDIT: Just a little more explanation of the differences between the gendarmerie and the regular armed forces. The gendarmerie is, for all intents and purposes the same as the military in terms of training and equipment. The key difference is that the gendarmerie of most countries that do have one fall under the department/ministry of the interior while the armed forces are under the control of the department/ministry of defense. I guess an appropriate analogy using American organizations would be if the FBI had its own standing army, that would be a gendarmerie. Canada's special anti-terrorism units (SERTs -- Special Emergncy Response Teams) used to fall under the gendarmerie (the Royal Candian Mounted Police) and it was only fairly recently during the 1990s that they were transferred to the Ministry of Defense and renamed as JTF2. The Mounties still have domestic anti-terrorism units (called ERTs... I guess they're no longer special ) but they're more similar to the FBI's HRT than the UK's SAS. Last edited by zuludelta; 04-20-2009 at 02:53 AM.. |
04-20-2009, 09:07 AM | #4929 |
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I was in Quebec, Old Quebec City staying at that big ol' famous hotel, back in the 8th grade. This would have been back in 87/88 or so. It was a school trip (yeah, I took French in school, 4 years and can't speak a word of it). Me and some friends were walking around town and saw a Palistinian protest marching down the streets. The next day saw 3 Palistinian's at the McDonalds, I don't know why they stood out to me but they did, probably because had seen people that looked like them protesting the day before. I was 13/14 and from New Hampshire, we didn't have that much diversity back when I was in school. Anyways, the day we were leaving, we were on the bus and the bus wasn't being allowed to leave. Teachers told us that there was a bomb threat at the hotel. Lots of cops and such around. I looked out the window and saw the police arresting one of the Palistinian's I had seen at McDonalds.
That's my Canada story.
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04-20-2009, 09:10 AM | #4930 |
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Bombstrike's card is the worst. So is Barrell Roll's and Black-Outs. They include this story element that goes no where. Gives nothing about what military branch they all belong to. It's ambigious about what their specialties are. All we know is that they're siblings and that Black-Out kidnapped Bombstrike for Cobra and that Barrell Roll doesn't like it.
I've always liked Flints, Dukes, Shipwrecks (V1, especially the part about fighting River Pirates in Southeast Asia), and Falcons. Claymore's is pretty good as well. Mutt's is pretty good too. Gives some nice training information and good personality stuff.
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