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11-04-2020, 07:04 PM | #43 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
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.
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11-04-2020, 08:23 PM | #45 | |
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11-05-2020, 09:28 AM | #46 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
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.
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11-28-2020, 07:59 AM | #47 | |
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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. |
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11-28-2020, 08:35 AM | #48 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
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. |
11-28-2020, 08:39 AM | #49 |
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Re: WW2 Which job would be most dangerous?
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...
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