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04-29-2009, 08:08 AM | #5021 |
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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.
It's like Ewan McGregor's character in Blackhawk Down says when he's asked why he's riding a desk: "I have an uncurable disease. It's called the ability to type." But that character is good too, because Grimes shows that even a Ranger riding a desk is still good enough to get right up and go out to the field. But the Joe unit would need a full time admin staff. Sure Alpine can do the books when he's on base, but who takes care of it when he's on a mission? And better pray he doesn't get killed on a mission and all that stuff he forgot to put on paper is lost with him... No, the Joes would have a non-mission admin/support staff: nurses, admin, mechanics, etc..
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04-29-2009, 08:11 AM | #5022 |
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Looking good. I like Deep-Six. Is that David Bowie? Face looks familiar. I'd hate to have to wear that suit, talk about uncomfortable.
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04-29-2009, 08:56 AM | #5023 |
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I kind of liked it when Hama would throw in the occasional oddball secondary MOS. In some cases, I think it was done to put kind of an ironic spin on a character, create something unexpected about them. When you look at Roadblock, you don't think "chef" right off the bat. You probably wouldn't peg a SWAT guy like Shockwave as a singer, so his 2nd MOS is choir. Just an easy way to add a character quirk. Sometimes its easy to forget that the file cards were meant to establish personalities as well as military qualifications. Last edited by lister; 04-29-2009 at 08:59 AM.. |
04-29-2009, 09:41 AM | #5024 |
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Crazylegs was a pianist.
Thunder has some kind of musical thing too.
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04-29-2009, 09:43 AM | #5025 |
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I did like in DDP when Black-Out was getting courtmartialed that Airborne was the lawyer.
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04-29-2009, 10:18 AM | #5026 |
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I never took the odd 2nd MOSs to mean that those jobs fell on those Joes. Roadblack is a chef but that doesn't mean he runs the kitchen at the PITT. Maybe once in awhile, he whips up something special for everybody. If Dusty's around when the air conditioner breaks down, maybe he helps out. But yeah, the Joes would definitely need a full support staff to keep things running on a daily basis.
For that matter, Stalker and Falcon are both qualified medics, but you probably wouldn't send either of them on a mission to fill solely that role. |
04-29-2009, 10:40 AM | #5027 |
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Yeah, but when Shippy first came out, he had the same filecard and was just a "Sailor". Didn't Torpedo, the first Joe SEaL come out before Shipwreck?
It's the DDP-ization of Shipwreck. They made him a SEaL so he could have a larger presence in the book and have a skillset beyond a sailor, so he could play with the big boys. YOJOE.COM | Shipwreck
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04-29-2009, 10:58 AM | #5028 |
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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. I believe the Brits and Israelis are more likely to wear their berets in this manner. I think Tom Cruise in Taps wears his beret like that.
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04-29-2009, 11:00 AM | #5029 |
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DDP had nothing to do with making Shipwreck a SEAL. He's been a SEAL since the RAH Battle Corps figures came out.
YOJOE.COM | Shipwreck Hasbro still didn't make a good SEaL figure. /sigh Wonder if they ever will.
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04-29-2009, 11:31 AM | #5030 |
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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). Last edited by zuludelta; 04-29-2009 at 11:36 AM.. |
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