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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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05-13-2021, 10:31 AM
the Scream Man
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Loose Cannon
Nice to have you on the thread.
As for wiping their existence from the system to be completely anonymous, that makes a lot of sense. We sort of saw that play out with IDW series. It sort of has it's limitations based reality of any military unit. I am curious what most Delta guys have as their MOS or what unit they are listed as part of. I think if the Joes were like a 12-50 man unit, then something like that could easily work, but then it's all for fun so and whatever works your Joeverse is all up to you. My Joe unit is probably like 500 members and then there are probably another 2000 support people that I just imagine that are there or they have the right to just swoop in and use the available support in the Area of Operations(AO).
I suppose there are two camps of Joe Fan takes on ranks. Those who pay little attention to them and those who can obsess about them. I find myself in the latter camp, and almost all my commmand structures follow along a strict ranking system, since in the US military rank means almost everything. With Special Operations it means even more, but just for the fact that a seasoned 30 year old Green Beret E-7 Sgt First Class is far and away a much better soldier than an E-4 Dusty. First of all I imagine most E-4s are probably under 24 years old. While these days six years in the military can get you plenty of combat experience, one would probably hit E-6 if they were any good to join the Joes. So you will see alot of us bump up the ranks of some of out favorites, since Dusty should be an E-7 really, maybe an E-6 at least. I am always intrigued by how the SAS rank structures work and how well that works (I hope it's base on Merit) and what happens once a member leaves and goes back to regular Army. Also how do attached members from foreign militarys fit into a command structure of a host unit say in the case of Big Ben or Skymate?
Ah Skymate. The only Aussie GI Joe. You can tell because he has a Boomerang!
*Sigh*
As a kid I had heaps of Joes and vehicles and giant bases and the like, and that would TOTALLY require hundreds of support staff and the like to keep it going. That means the whole "wipe them from the system" is much less feasible.
These days I think of them more as a 30-50 man team, including people who double as tech, armory and mechanics for vehicles. But the Joes more or less just have a "Commandeer whatever we need today" policy to get them where they need to go.
Similarly the command situation is just streamlined. Hawks in Charge. Dukes the man in charge on the ground. Anyone else can potentially be the man in charge of an op if needed, and the others know thats how it plays.
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