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Old 10-25-2021, 12:45 PM   #11
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Default Re: Spec Ops - CBRNE

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Nuclear Ordnance Disposal is as important as EOD.
In what sense? Like, the same people get trained in both and are expected to be about as well trained for both? Or each has specialist people who are equally trained? Or just that both are fairly minor parts of the overall skill-set?
It seems strange to me (as someone with only pop-culture knowledge of the subject) that nuclear ordnance disposal (which I understand to be used approximately never) would be just as much of a priority as EOD (which I understand to be used relatively often). Is it just that the threat of nuclear ordnance is so great they make sure that if anyone ever needs to disarm some they will damn well know what they are doing and they can't have just a small number of experts in it, since that would mean they were unlikely to be close enough should the need ever arise?
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Old 10-25-2021, 01:42 PM   #12
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In what sense? ...
It seems strange to me... that nuclear ordnance disposal ... would be just as much of a priority as EOD...
It's just as much a priority to the bomb disposal specialists in a tech escort unit, not in general. These are the soldiers who are called on to bridge the gap between "never" and "approximately never." Also note that nuclear ordnance disposal includes dealing with damaged ordnance (dropped warheads), dirty bombs (designed to spread radioactive material by conventional explosives and fires) and various flavors of incomplete activations, not just the Hollywood "Fat Boy with a ticking timer."

It's also a peculiarity of the rules-as-written that these are separate mandatory specialties, which makes it necessary to have both if you want to work at a professional level without depending on defaults.
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Old 10-25-2021, 11:19 PM   #13
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Note that EOD and NOD default to each other at -2, so just having one point in one (to avoid any unpleasantness the GM might assign for only having the default) is probably enough if you've a high skill in the other.
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Old 10-26-2021, 04:52 AM   #14
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Default Re: Spec Ops - CBRNE

It's also worth noting that the only real life examples of CBRN EOD that are well documented are SCUD Hunting in a certain middle eastern country, that involved just blowing them up, and another certain middle-eastern country just dropping ordnance from a stealth aircraft on nuclear reactors of another middle-eastern country.

I suspect that dropping bombs on any biological facilities will do the trick too, with pathogens dying in the explosion.
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