WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?

[dcarson]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Every US armed service has to have its' separate force of Spec Ops (except maybe the Coast Guard).

Maritime Safety and Security Team

[Anthony]

However, the Space Force hasn't had enough time (or budget, or anything) to acquire its own SpecOps group.

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Anthony

However, the Space Force hasn't had enough time (or budget, or anything) to acquire its own SpecOps group.

Isn't it mostly theoretical at the moment? Sure it can concentrate on orbital dominance and cyber dominance, but so far most the idea of a massive armada dominating the system, let alone several systems in the Honor Harrington manner is hardly in the works.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Isn't it mostly theoretical at the moment?

Yes, another reason it doesn't have its own Spec Ops.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by dcarson

Maritime Safety and Security Team

I expected that. I just didn't know where to start searching.

[jason taylor]

Speaking of the Coast Guard a Beachmaster would be a dangerous job. He has to walk around with a bullhorn while the marines could take a breath once they reached cover. In the US Service a lot of Beachmasters in WW2 were coasties.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Tessen

Scottish Highlanders...the Bagpipe guy. Shoot him then is there another guy to pick up the tune?

Possibly. Piping wouldn't be an unknown skill among highlanders, although highland units weren't composed exclusively of highlanders. It might be different with a lowlander unit. [While not hard and fast rules, units designated Scottish as opposed to Highland are lowlanders and wear trews rather than kilts, though by WWII kilts were losing favour, as expensive and not providing adequate protection against chemical attacks.]

The Germans, at least, had learned in WWI that shooting the piper was one of "those really bad ideas" that sounded good at the time. After they shot a couple of pipers and had the highland units involved do a "take no prisoners" on the offending units, the Germans stopped doing it.

As an aside, pipers (but bandsmen in general, regardless of whose side they were on) had another duty beyond that of military musician. They were also unit first aiders/stretcher bearers and entitled to wear red armbands marking them as such while so employed. Stretcher bearers weren't a protected class under the Geneva Convention allowing them to wear Red Cross/Red Crescent armbands marking their status, but the red armbands were intended to forestall any "well, I didn't know that's what he was doing, did I?" defense from someone who did shoot a stretcher bearer.

[Dencat]

Forward observers had notoriously short lifespans, although it would be unusual to see one on patrol except maybe scouting for easily identifiable target points before advance.
They usually hung around radiomen making them easily identifiable and had(and have) unhealthy habit of keeping their heads up when shells started falling.

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Yes, another reason it doesn't have its own Spec Ops.

Of course, the Space Corps could well be one of those rare organisations that employs operators before it employs regular field units. Recruitment could be an issue as the gap from chairborne to snake eating is liable to prove an obstacle...