You're thrown into a war... what role do you play?
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Speaking from experience - I highly doubt anyone here would enjoy the role of a combat medic. It might sound good in a game, defibbing people and dropping medkits, but in real life it's much, much different.
How would you like to sit next to a guy, side covered in shrapnel, face shredded from the mortar round and having to plunge your index finger into the mans neck to stop him losing blood? Not so amazing now is it?
How about scooping up your best mate with a shovel, when he's spread over a good 50 metres? Little more than a red haze is left, maybe a few recognizable lumps here and there. A tooth, maybe a bit of ear or a toe.
There's a reason why Combat medics are respected on the battlefield.
Personally, I prefer the squad marksman. I get a shiny rifle and it's not as heavy as our L85A2's. Anything that can save you a few Lb's is good in an infantry soldiers books. Unless it's your Ceramic plates. They're one of the few items we all know are worth their weight.
How would you like to sit next to a guy, side covered in shrapnel, face shredded from the mortar round and having to plunge your index finger into the mans neck to stop him losing blood? Not so amazing now is it?
How about scooping up your best mate with a shovel, when he's spread over a good 50 metres? Little more than a red haze is left, maybe a few recognizable lumps here and there. A tooth, maybe a bit of ear or a toe.
There's a reason why Combat medics are respected on the battlefield.
Personally, I prefer the squad marksman. I get a shiny rifle and it's not as heavy as our L85A2's. Anything that can save you a few Lb's is good in an infantry soldiers books. Unless it's your Ceramic plates. They're one of the few items we all know are worth their weight.
Well, I guess a pilot seeing as thats what I am going for in real life. If it had to be a ground job I'd be either anti-tank infantry, cause I love ruining peoples days.
You'd get the living dog shit worked out of you in the real military. I've seen it and I do not envy commo guys. They get the lest amount of glory for the most amount of work. Damn that job sucks.Woeps said:
For me, a few picks:
In a Command role, I'd prefer to function as a Fleet commander or something similar. I function at my best when I'm leading a large group of ships with cannons bigger than a Hummer toward the enemy.
Combat role: Definately the Sniper. I prefer to look my enemy in the eye... through a scope in the next town over.
Support role: Artilleryman. Fun!
Flight role. Pilot. Preferably an F-4
In a Command role, I'd prefer to function as a Fleet commander or something similar. I function at my best when I'm leading a large group of ships with cannons bigger than a Hummer toward the enemy.
Combat role: Definately the Sniper. I prefer to look my enemy in the eye... through a scope in the next town over.
Support role: Artilleryman. Fun!
Flight role. Pilot. Preferably an F-4
Honestly? I have numerous issues and am a borderline sociopath (at least I realize it and admit it). I'd probably be the guy they bring out to do all the stuff you moral/liberal guys won't do like torture prisoners, and coordinate campaigns of psychological warfare and terrorism. Basically all the stuff that the losing side takes responsibility for in a war, both both sides do... well except in the US where we're too moral to be smart about it. Risky job especially here, but in the end it's the side of war someone has to do. I'm one of the few people cynical to admit it's need, and who would admit to seriously thinking they could both do it, and go back to living fairly normally afterwards.... which officially means I admit to being a truely reprehensible human being.
If I had to choose a fighting role: artillery operator. Far away from action and well protected.
If I can choose any role, officer on a nuclear sub. If it's a war like the one in Afghanistan, nothing can happen to me. If it's a full scale war, then I'll be safer than than the common man, while still being the most feared opponent on the playground.
If I can choose any role, officer on a nuclear sub. If it's a war like the one in Afghanistan, nothing can happen to me. If it's a full scale war, then I'll be safer than than the common man, while still being the most feared opponent on the playground.
Medic. I have this thing for helping people. That or a sniper. I think I'd be pretty good at it, plus I don't like the front lines.
I'd be yet another deserter, I never signed up to any military force and refuse to be forced to join one against my will.
What most people don't realize is that a "sniper" still carries out normal infantryman roles. You just have to lug around your countries preferred choice of rifle too. In actuality, a snipers main skill is survivablity. When going through "sniper" training you'e actually taught more memory, map reading and survival skills than you are shooting and marksmanship skills. You've also got to have the patience of a slug. By that I mean you could literally spend weeks in a ditch, in a bog, covered in mud, in the rain and not move an inch. If you want to take a dump, you better have a bag at the ready. A piss? Bottle or in your fatigues.Sarah Kerrigan said:
A lot of people fantasize about being that lone wolf, sat in a hedge popping off headshots from miles away. When in actual fact, you'll be relying on your spotter for wind, humidity and bullet drop measurements and all you're gunna see is a small outline of a human being and then watch it collapse. Possibly spending the next week or so trying to get back to a friendly AO.
Probably something away from any line of fire.
I wouldn't have the mental capacity to shoot someone, so I'd probably die really fast if I stayed out there; if I was out in the open, I'd be shot with probably no where to run. Even if I could run it's not like I could get very far. That said, I might accidentally shoot someone, on which side? I don't know.
I wouldn't have the mental capacity to shoot someone, so I'd probably die really fast if I stayed out there; if I was out in the open, I'd be shot with probably no where to run. Even if I could run it's not like I could get very far. That said, I might accidentally shoot someone, on which side? I don't know.
Well my military training was of the medical kind, so I guess I would be a medic. I also learnt how to chart these sea chart thingies (whatever they're called in English). Basically I know how to use a radar and a radio.
Guess that's boring.
Guess that's boring.
this. soooo much this. the twisted image people have about this job is terrifying and annoying.Dectomax said:
plus, more often than not you don't even get to shoot at anything. your primary job is to recon the target area and relay the information. one does that more than anything else, infact.
General's driver, doesn't require too much shooting and getting shot at or an abundance of thinking.