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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzeentch" data-source="post: 1018738" data-attributes="member: 13222">Re: Re: Blood and Guts: FeedbackMy point was that it's military terminology that will not necessarily be immediately understood. I'm not asking that you reprint the DoD dictionary <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />You were writing a military sourcebook for d20 Modern. I would have expected a bit more attention to detail on these facts, as different models and variants can vary a lot in capability, weight, and availability. Even d20 Modern (itself not a highwater mark for accuracy) is not always as lax with nomenclature as B&G.Which is the problem I'm afraid.Bit more complex then that from what I understand. But I'm not intimately familiar with the political wrangling that led to the Commandant moving a unit to the Joint special ops community/command. I find it hard to believe it was simply for recruiting purposes, the Marines have no problem with recruiting.This is a conscious service decision. It's the reason Marines do not wear unit patches or any other special identification markings (i.e. distinctive headgear) except in a few special cases.I would rather see a more accurate portrayal of unit capabilities. A MEU (SOC) in general is not as capable and well trained on the individual level as Recon. Ability inflation is an unfortunate fact of life, but it's not necessary to have every "special ops" unit be ub3r 733t d00dz.So I gathered. However, this does match the usage for the other classes. By the reasoning you gave above receiving ANY training requires Active Duty allegiance as you will be on active duty during your initial training cycle through the schools.You may want to doublecheck. FN Minimi is the actual name of the weapon, M249 is the type classification applied when it entered US service.The reason people make a fuss is that these variants can be quite different from each other, as I have noted. You may not see much value in being specific but it does make real-world difference.As you don't give designations that statement means little. For example, the BGM-71A TOW (1970) is quite different from the later BGM-71D TOW 2 (1983). The BGM-71D appeared after the AGM-114A Hellfire (1981), but the Interim Hellfire (AGM-114F) entered service in 1990 and the latest AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire entered operational capability in 1998. These are all very different weapon systems with some pretty drastic differences in capabilities (especially the Longbow Hellfire vs. Hellfire and Hellfire II).B&G has some interesting parts I will borrow for my own games, but the lack of research and attention to detail is quite unfortunate.</blockquote>

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