You're thrown into a war... what role do you play?

[Simeon Ivanov]

Probably Sniper or help around the base. Anything as long as I don't get close to the enemy. I wanna live.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

Astronaut to repair and maintain our orbital missile systems. Hope there aren't any EMP attacks...

Except that since there are naturally occuring EMP's in space, most satllites are EMP-proof.

 

[DireFrog]

Sniper. "Boom. Boom. Boom."

 

[Sanqlol]

Since I'm already undergoing education/training to become a medic, I guess that's pretty much what I would want to be....

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

Veterinary corps. I'll be making sure the animals used in the war effort are in good condition...If not, general infantry or medics corps

 

[Britwarlord]

Depends on if its a war I believe in.(WW2 for example, not WW1, WW1 would have me desert and therefore executed due to the stupidity of the officers.)

If it is sign me up for some front-line role, probably as an infantrymen seeing as how they will be in short supply looking at everyone else choice.

I would like to be in the air force though, both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.

However chances are its not a war I believe in and therefore I will take the honoured role of deserter.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Sniper or Saboteur, stay quiet and undetected but then confuse or frustrate people heavily.

 

[s0p0g]

as i am a trained nurse and studying human medicine, i guess i'd be the medic... who has no qualms shooting people ^^

 

[darthotaku]

"guy who plans the tactical nuclear strike"

 

[floobie]

Yeah, I'd fuck right off to the nearest "Canada" equivalent. I think war is beyond stupid and I refuse to kill people because my government tells me I should. Nor do I want to die for said government.

Less serious answer: Sniper I guess. Or an SCV. I am a geologist, after all. I can entertain my commander with interesting discussions about the crystallographic properties of minerals.

 

[Vrach]

For me, either Medic. I think it would feel amazing to preserve life in a time of death and destruction.

Did you consider the screaming, guts, blood, urine and feces that come with the job? Along with facing death more often than most actual soldiers (or rather, facing it up close) :S

Yea, I do realise this, but compared to everyone else that isn't medic, i think im saving more than anyone.

Well you've got the "pure" saves, the ones that don't take a life to save someone, aye. But how many people you actually save depends on the situation.

An engineer/pilot can take out a tank that's about to turn your squad into a wallpaper and save all your lives doing it. A sniper can cover your team doing the same and an assault soldier with better reflexes/training can do it too to a point, suppressive fire has a habit of keeping the enemy at bay to give others more time.

You can argue it's not technically saving, but when a medic saves someone (IRL), they're usually not left 100% (some, I'd say even most damage requiring a medic on the battlefield is permanent), when your squad mates take out an enemy before he even attacks, you're entirely unharmed.

 

[jprf]

I'm a med student, so probably field medic.

 

[albinoterrorist]

Red-shirt, reporting in!

...
Oh, you meant POSITIONS, not roles...
Well, I guess i'd probably be stuck in logistics. Too weedy for the front, not enough know-how to maintain gear..
I'd spend the entire war in the cushy lifestyle of serving inedible food and scrubbing toilets!

 

[Athol]

Considering the fact that Im an actual soldier, Id have to say that 90% of people thrown into a warzone would cower in the fetal position and urinate on themselves.

Well, here is a member of the 90% right here

Baring that though, I'd say a artillerist. Still invloved in the fight but fairly safe (aside from counter-fire batteries, airstrikes, commando raids, or all out assaults on the fire base...umm maybe I go with a clerk back at HQ.)

 

[Phlakes]

Sniper, because I'm not really a fan of the whole dying thing. Although if I was drafted right now, I'd probably just desert and go to Switzerland or something.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

hmmm..."I'll play the role of team mother and lord high ragamuffin"! [/obscure reference]

If anyone gets that reference or at least knows the name of the dude who said that (or the game he was in), I will give you a cookie.

But honestly, I wold be the guy in charge of supplies or something. I do not want to shoot anybody.

 

[cthulhlu]

id be a conscientious objector.
unless we were invaded by someone like the nazis, then id be a sniper, or failing that id join the invading force (if it wins) rise in ranks as much as i can then suicide bomb the headquaters.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Since I'm in Canada and they're will only ever be one country to invade us. The United Americas. I believe I'm going to have to be a resistance fighter. They'll get whats coming to them!

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Astronaut to repair and maintain our orbital missile systems. Hope there aren't any EMP attacks...

Except that since there are naturally occuring EMP's in space, most satllites are EMP-proof.

I know, but what if I'm doing a space walk?

 

[Pinkamena]

I'd be all over the place, literally.