Recruiting for Blood and Guts: Modern Military PbP (done recruiting for now)

[Ranger Rick]

Ranks are as follows (knew I forgot something):

Masada/"Chicken Legs" Jackson: Sgt (E-5)
Bobitron/"Bear": Cpl (E-4+)
Kingpaul/Augustus Kurtz: Cpl (E-4+)
Ranger Rick/Pedraic: Cpl (E-4+)
Shaman/"Doc" Meadows: Spc (E-4)
Uranium Dragon/OD Green: Spc (E-4)

I would think the driver should be the lowest rank and recommend a PFC.

 

[Ranger Rick]

You won't find it in a bookstore. .....You're putting us in the position of violating copyright to send you a copy (which i won't) or having RPGO give away a product they worked hard to produce. Neither are great choices.

However, it's Chuck's call. I don't see any reason why you can't just play with the basic SRD and wing it for some of the details.

Doesn't seem logical not to have it as a book, but no matter.

How can a computer file be copyrighted? Don't you mean classified as a proprietary document? But having it classified as proprietary does not make any sense either.

I do not want you to violate any proprietary ethic you have though. Thanks.

 

[Ranger Rick]

Rick is ok without BNG II. Just made the first post.

Chuck

Questions before I start.

Reading about the dogfights and bombs, I would like to know are we at war with Iran? Next, running an electronic LP we would need generators to supply power not the batteries of the M2. Therefore the Bradley would not idle for ever.

Military generators are also loud, loud enough to help drown out the noise of jets overhead.

As a driver I would like to know if I filled the fuel tank last night. This way I could talk about vehicle status.

 

[Masada]

Oh sure... punish me with rank! *lol*

For clarification, it appears we were out on mission doing maintenance (the tank moving between monitoring stations) and the air battle took place. We operate pre-dawn because A) it's cooler and B) it's slightly more co-vert (right?). So at a guess 0300 hours would be about 2-4 hours before we'd be done for the day.

Rick, if this is true, then we probably aren't crashing out just yet (might edit???)

Vig, how far from home base are we? Do we trundle out and back in the same night? or do we stay out for a few days at a time? Are we in radio range?

 

[The Shaman]

Reading about the dogfights and bombs, I would like to know are we at war with Iran?

I'm guessing that this will be made clear in future posts. I think our characters are supposed to be wondering about that right now...

The B&G2 .pdf is a copyrighted work - distributing copies for free violates copyright law and invokes much bad karma.

And dude, you're complaining about a rank bump?!?

 

[Bobitron]

I'm going to re-work my history over the weekend to give Scott less experience. He has far too long of a career in my post than any Corporal would.

Maybe he was a Sgt who wasted busted down by a cranky officer?

 

[Ranger Rick]

Oh sure... punish me with rank! *lol*

For clarification, it appears we were out on mission doing maintenance (the tank moving between monitoring stations) and the air battle took place. We operate pre-dawn because A) it's cooler and B) it's slightly more co-vert (right?). So at a guess 0300 hours would be about 2-4 hours before we'd be done for the day.

Rick, if this is true, then we probably aren't crashing out just yet (might edit???)

Vig, how far from home base are we? Do we trundle out and back in the same night? or do we stay out for a few days at a time? Are we in radio range?

Doing maintenance at night is less covert because you need to see what you are doing. While depth perception is being increased with each generation of NVGs, it has not been eradicated. As of two years ago, the people who work at a NVG testing lab has no gear that allows increased depth perception and clarity of minute detail in the pipeline. What they have now, may be out in general use by 2010. Currently they are testing is for a less weighty model and longer battery life.

Therefore we would need white light to see. That is best done during the day. As for the coolness factor, many of these electronics still generate heat, therefore they are probably in HVAC environments.

Lastly, vehicle speed is reduced at night so travel time is greatly increased. It would seem logical that we main tain a normal peacetime schedule of work during the day and sleep at night.

But I will change it if my assumptions are wrong.

 

[Ranger Rick]

I'm going to re-work my history over the weekend to give Scott less experience. He has far too long of a career in my post than any Corporal would.

Maybe he was a Sgt who wasted busted down by a cranky officer?

A leg corporal can easly have 4-6 years worth of experience.

 

[The Shaman]

Maybe he was a Sgt who wasted busted down by a cranky officer?

Flunked out of OCS for fighting on duty, busted from sergeant due to a DUI, an ugly divorce after finding his wife cheating with another NCO, a bitter broken man in a thankless dead-end job...

...is that a bit much?

 

[Ranger Rick]

Flunked out of OCS for fighting on duty, busted from sergeant due to a DUI, an ugly divorce after finding his wife cheating with another NCO, a bitter broken man in a thankless dead-end job...

...is that a bit much?

I think it is a bit sugar coated...........Actually flunking out of OCS would probably mean a 100% discharge or starting out as a PFC.