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05-31-2009, 04:36 PM | #6261 |
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Airwave — Louisville, Kentucky Cold Front — Ft. Knox, Kentucky Also thunder, who is named matt breckinridge. I used to live in St. Matthews(in louisville, his home town) and drive on breckinridge lane all the time, kind of a stretch, but still. |
05-31-2009, 05:26 PM | #6262 |
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Is Thunder your favorite Joe? Or at one time? I'm just asking because I'm always curious as to why people like the Joes they do. Statehood seems to be a main reason for sure. |
05-31-2009, 07:12 PM | #6263 |
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Anybody have a copy of issue #108 handy?
At the end of the issue, near the letters section, there was a Snake-Eyes dossier that listed the awards and medals he's eligible to wear. Anybody remember what they were? Also, I've updated the headgear for the beret-wearing Joes. Instead of giving them unique unit-specific beret flashes (those little badges on the beret), I've given them the JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) flash. Here's how they look (if you can make them out): It wouldn't make any sense (and would be in violation of headgear regulations) for Stalker to still wear the 75th Ranger Regiment flash on his tan beret seeing as how he's now assigned to a different unit. Likewise for Flint and the 1st SFG flash, and Dial-Tone and the Tactical Air Control Party flash. Last edited by zuludelta; 05-31-2009 at 07:19 PM.. |
05-31-2009, 08:12 PM | #6264 |
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05-31-2009, 08:13 PM | #6265 |
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First let me say this: There are some wonderful people who are AG officers. Some of them are VERY smart, and they are using their time in the Army to get a leg up in experience that they can take into the business world, or further government service. They often go on to earn an MBA or MFA or MPP. Some very smart cadets in ROTC, usually Business or Public Policy majors, sometimes go into AG and they gain excellent experience. The AG school is at Ft. Jackson, SC... along with the Chaplain School. Since Chaplains and AG officers are usually Staff Officers, I spent time getting to know some AG officers in training while I was at the Chaplain School.
Now let me say this: The quote you referenced at the bottom of this page is right on: it's single elimination in the career of an Army Officer, and they DRILL THAT INTO THE CADETS of West Point. In the Army, it's kind of like high school. Jocks are still cooler than the smart kids, and the only way to be smart and still be cool is to be a Smart Jock. That's life in the Army. And even though Special Forces is "Really Cool". It's only like 2% of the Army. SF is sort of like the Lacrosse Team... Lacrosse is a tough sport, and you gotta be really athletic and everyone knows it's cool - but the main sport is Football. The Infantry is like Football in the Army. It's the main attraction. As my father, a career Transportation Officer puts it, "The Infantry IS the Army... everything else is just Infantry Support". That's life in the Army. Now, in theory (and what the Army says officially), every branch is equally important and a good officer should be able to excel in any branch. That's just not really true. Everyone knows that the Combat Branches are the "Real Army" and the belle of the ball is the Infantry. It's still one of the three most requested Branches for new Officers, and the 1st choice of those hoping to make the Army a career. Some guys love Tanks, and they go Armor. And that's combat, so it's OK. Artillery is similar; it's combat. But it's snickered behind their backs, "Well, if they really wanted to be a Combat Officer, they would have gone Infantry." So if the Army is High School, the Combat Branches are the Jocks and the Infantry is the Football Team. Does that make sense? MP's are like hall monitors... no body likes those suck ups. Transportation and Ordinance (Logistics) are like the guys in Shop Class and VOTECH. They're not nerds, but they're not Jocks and nobody really knows where they hang out after school or on the weekends. They're probably smoking behind the school. Intel guys are often like the Art class kids or Band Nerds. They're pretty smart, and sometimes they're really cool. Sometimes they're just History nerds. Sometimes they even pick up chicks, and maybe they can even fight because they're into Martial arts in their spare time. Maybe they even swim or run Cross-Country or something, but they're not really cool like the team sport jocks art cool. All other staff officers pretty much fall into the category of some kind of nerd. Finance guys are Math nerds. Chemical Corps are science nerds. JAG are the kids who are really into Student Government. And the AG Corps are the Social Studies nerds who really want to be office monitors. And the Army/Marine word for nerd is POG - Person Other than a Grunt. Now, I know this analogy is a little ridiculous and it's meant to be funny. But think for just a minute: That's how the Cadets as West Point are trained for their entire time in College. That's how they look at it. That's the social structure of their college experience, and it carries over right into their careers in the Army. So if you're Grid-Iron, and you've been a high achiever your whole life, all your training is going to tell you: Get in the Infantry, Excel in the Infantry, and STAY in the Infantry! Now you said this, "your assessment that Adjutant/Personnel Management duties would be "below" somebody of Grid-Iron's stature as a top West Point graduate". That's not true. I'm a Chaplain, I don't think of it in terms like that. I value each soldier as an individual. My branch is pretty POGish/Nerdy... we're the kid in school who is very religious, a little awkward, but tries to fit in. Sometimes the chaplain is the Bible Thumper who can't dress himself, but hopefully sometimes he's a good guy who is easy to talk to... but he's certainly not a Jock. The bottom line is not about if I think AG corps is below Grid-Iron's stature. The issue is that Grid-Iron would think that AG was below his stature, and he would have been trained to think that way by the Army, starting at West Point. All his buddies from school would think that way. So it's not so much that I think Grid-Iron is too good to be an AG officer; it's that Grid-Iron would think he was too good to be an AG officer. "Real Officers join the Infantry, and real career officers stay Infantry. Because the Infantry IS the Real Army." That's life in the Army. Just my two cents, but as an Officer, I've seen it, my dad saw it, and my Grandfather (who was an Infantry Officer) certainly saw it that way... and I think most Arny Officers would admit it. I'm sure it's different in the Air Force and Navy... but in the Marines and the Army, everybody follows the Infantry.
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05-31-2009, 08:15 PM | #6266 |
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05-31-2009, 09:20 PM | #6267 |
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I originally had a TACP beret flash on it, but now it's the same JSOC flash as the one on Flint's and Stalker's. It's jsut that it's on an angle.
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05-31-2009, 09:24 PM | #6268 |
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I've been searching all afternoon for that issue... I remember some of it from memory (I must have read that issue a couple hundred times when I was a kid... I already had obsessive-compulsive tendencies back then )... I know he's qualified to wear the Purple Heart and something with oak leaf clusters on it... it's just that nearly every military decoration can be adorned with an oak leaf cluster, so knowing that doesn't really narrow it down. |
05-31-2009, 09:26 PM | #6269 |
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No, I meant the thing that looks like it's draped over the top of it?
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05-31-2009, 09:33 PM | #6270 |
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Oh, those are the retaining straps for his headset.
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