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06-15-2009, 12:48 PM | #6851 |
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Didn't do much image compositing the past weekend, but I did try to rationalize GI Joe Colton's, GI Jane's, and Mercer's role on the team. I wanted to give them real-world "MOS" titles (or their civilian equivalent, at least) similar to what I've done with the other Joes. Initially, I was going to make them elements of the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency... the Department of Defense's own "mini-CIA") but that would just make them redundant to the S2 section (the various military intelligence branches under the 4 armed services are already affiliated with the DIA... in terms of organizational hierarchy, the Army Intelligence branch, for example, is functionally a part of both the DIA and the Department of the Army, although administratively, it's officially an Army organization). The problem, I quickly realized, was that I was limiting myself to DoD agencies as the source organizations, when the whole point of having an "external" cell within the Joe team was to give the team a limited capability to work around DoD restrictions.
So I've decided to make them attachés from the CIA (as the CIA isn't a part of the DoD and their recruitment and retention policies aren't bound by the restrictions regarding tenure, or even such trifling matters like recent recreational drug use ): Colton is now a senior executive/senior counterterrorism analyst detached from the CIA's Office of Terrorism Analysis, GI Jane is now an analytics methodologist detached from the same office, and Mercer is now a detached "case officer" (a National Clandestine Services Operations Officer), using his terrorist organization contacts to gather actionable intelligence for GI Joe's counterterrorism missions, as well as conducting field HUMINT-gathering missions himself (sort of like a cross between Jinx and Chuckles in the GI Joe: Cobra series written by Christos Gage). So where does this leave Snake-Eyes (whom I lumped in with Joe Colton, GI Jane, and Mercer in the last iteration of the organizational document)? Well, I'm making him a detached Paramilitary Operations Officer, what is often colloquially termed as an SOG (Special Operations Group) operator. His profile definitely fits in with the job's requirements, which include prior experience in military special operations/combat arms. Given that the CIA is more flexible in its hiring practices than the DoD, I think they would be the perfect agency to employ Snake-Eyes after the accident that robbed him of his ability to speak and by most reasonable Army standards would have led to a medical discharge or at the very least, re-assignment to a non-combatant role (and that's just not Snake-Eyes). Anyway, to read up on the changes, you can read GI Joe Colton's, GI Jane's, and Mercer's filecards by clicking on the Filecard Project link in my signature. Last edited by zuludelta; 06-15-2009 at 12:53 PM.. |
06-15-2009, 01:30 PM | #6852 |
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You got rid of the equivalencies? Not that it matters too much but it sort of shows how they fit in with the GIJoe detachment hierarchy. Someone like Colton would have a fair amount of Control over the unit, and would most likely be involved in all aspects of planning, just not execution. Jane, Mercer, and Snake-Eyes not so much. But now that you opened the Special Activities Division, you going to add anyone else to this external team?
At any rate I love the CIA angle it makes sense. It's sort of been staring us in the face for a long time. I've always felt that GIJoe is sort of a cross between a Ranger Company and the CIAs Special Activities Division, which is made up of guys that are experts at something. ex-Green Berets, Ex-Force Recon, Ex SEALs, and ex Delta-Force guys. |
06-15-2009, 01:49 PM | #6853 |
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I took them out for now because the GS pay scale (used with civilian federal employees like the ones working with the CIA) has been changed for 2009, and I'm not sure how well they sync up with the DoD pay scale (which is what the Armed Forces use). If anybody out there has a nice tabulation of the current GS and Military pay scale equivalencies, I'd appreciate it. I'll probably add them back again once I figure out how the new scales correlate with each other. As a short-hand reference though, here are the rough approximations of the old equivalencies based on salary (I'm pretty confident that the recent changes haven't altered things too drastically, though):
Senior Executive Service = O-7 to O-10 (depending on experience and locality) Management (GS-13 to GS-15) = W-5, O-5, O-6 (depending on experience and locality) Standard (GS-09 to GS-12) = E-7 to O-4 (depending on experience and locality) Standard (GS-08) = E-5 to O-3 (depending on experience and locality) Standard (GS-05 to GS-07) = E-1 to E-5 (depending on experience and locality) Not really. I'd like to think of the Joe team as a Joint Special Operations Command asset (which means they ultimately report to the Department of Defense). Adding too many external agency operatives (especially from the CIA, which is an independent federal agency that isn't really obligated in any official capacity to commit personnel to DoD activities and organizations) would just screw up things like command responsibility and hierarchy, and just wreak all sorts of havoc with the chain-of-command. Last edited by zuludelta; 06-15-2009 at 01:52 PM.. |
06-15-2009, 02:05 PM | #6854 |
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General Schedule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.defenselink.mil/comptroll...appendix_b.pdf I don't see you adding the whole team. I was thinking of Lowlight really. But you already have a spot for him. |
06-15-2009, 02:20 PM | #6855 |
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General Schedule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.defenselink.mil/comptroll...appendix_b.pdf I don't see you adding the whole team. I was thinking of Lowlight really. But you already have a spot for him. The info on the wiki page is pretty outdated though. IIRC, the federal government abolished the GS-16 to GS-18 grades back in the late 1970s/early 1980s, but the wiki page still has them listed on the equivalency table. |
06-15-2009, 02:53 PM | #6856 |
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06-15-2009, 08:37 PM | #6857 |
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Close-up of the motor pool "office" area.
The large area is the parts/equipment storage (motors, tires, driveshafts, mufflers, etc..). Can see the personal elevator and the armory elevator. The little office next to the personal elevator is the Lead Mechanic's office. Behind the personal elevator is the break room and off of that is the men's toilets/lockers and the womens toilets/lockers.
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06-15-2009, 08:38 PM | #6858 |
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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.
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06-15-2009, 09:52 PM | #6859 |
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The motor pool maintenance area. A couple of car lifts and a couple of bays to change the oil and stuff.
Added some vents on top of the hanger. There will be some similar ones on top of the motor pool. Gotta vent out the fumes somehow. Now, aren't these a big ol' security breach? Not really. Since they are exhaust fans, the bottoms of the ducts have big ol' giant fan blades spinning pretty damn fast. So even if you got in a duct, you'd have to deal with the blades. And then if you stop the blades, sensors in the security center would go off and they'd know you were there.
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06-16-2009, 05:03 AM | #6860 |
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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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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. Last edited by zuludelta; 06-16-2009 at 05:09 AM.. Reason: edited for spelling |
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