One of the best ways to help drive this change is to use the phrase "peacetime AF" as much as possible.
We can meme this into reality.
We can do this.
Not sure if the title fits my thoughts but the idea is this. Since all enlisted and officers are selected internally by their peers for promotion. What happens when those peacetime people who have never been to war get to those top positions? (E9’s and Generals). What happens to the military structure as a whole once that happens? Doesn’t the structure get compromised by people who know in theory how to fight wars but haven’t never actually done it? And doesn’t this lead to a sloo of other problems, like people who would otherwise been promoted by combat veteran peers vs peacetime peers for leadership qualities vs checking boxes?
(I feel like this was poorly worded but hopefully someone knows what I’m trying to say here)
How easy or difficult is it for individual soldiers (or marines, knights, supersoldiers, etc.) in your world to transition to peacetime? What about transitioning to civilian life? Does this depend on the nation, the branch, or the specialty? Are there programs and procedures in place to aid this transition?
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Those of us active on this sub are use to seeing posts about wanting to experience combat. Lately I’ve been noticing a lot of comments/posts from Marines that feel like lesser of a Marine because they didn’t see combat. Fuck that shit! Please scroll through this sub where our brothers are crying out for help because of the trauma they felt and witnessed. When I enlisted in 96, the thought of war wasn’t even in my head. No way did I ever imagine it could happen. Yeah we had that air campaign in Bosnia but it never felt real. On our birthday in 98, we were all pulled into the hanger and were told we were going to Iraq. I dozed off during the briefing. 36 hours later were were told to stand down. Our response was “yeah we knew that was coming”. By the time my 4 years was coming up, I had it pretty good. Just picked up CPL meritoriously (after 2 NJPs while in school I unfucked myself). I was a Huey/Cobra avionics CDI (meaning no more shitty ass tasks). My OIC told me if I re-upped that he would put in the paperwork to cross-train as a crew chief to get my wings. The CO approved it (still talk to the Colonel to this day). Went through the training, which included the engine mech school and air crew courses. Sweet, now I can shoot the .50 cal and gal-17 from a moving helicopter. Sent back to my unit on a Monday. Monday September 10, 2001. My life changed forever that next day. My name isn’t Rambo. I was fucking scared. A lot. My roommate and another brother were killed in a crash. When the recovery team returned (had to recover and/or destroy sensitive equipment), the looks on their faces after seeing my boys remains when they came back still wakes me up at night. I can’t imagine what they see when they close their eyes. We did countless gun runs and medi-vac missions. We were a flying target. Every single aircraft was riddled with bullet holes. But the guys on the ground needed us. Both to spray the shit out of those fuckers and to pick them up when every second counted. To me, the guys on the ground, the guys in the air and even the guys that never left the states are all the same. Marines. Ok except Kyle Carpenter. I wouldn’t be mad if he didn’t give me a reach around. No homo
I've seen several comments in this and other forums recently about going 03XX in "peacetime" being a "bold move", "good luck with that", "strange times for grunts".
What do you think is meant by that?
Volume 1 (pg. 31) "What are you going to do in two years once the Legion aren't an issue anymore? Having 'former military personnel' on your résumé isn't gonna turn any heads during peacetime."
In the real world, what kind of jobs can military officers get when they exit the military? I am curious why Annette would be so critical of the lack of value from a military officer position. Lena is a major, which is respectable rank. Add in her pedigree and nobility and she is a prime candidate for a good amount of coveted positions out there, if real world logic applies.
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From what I can tell, most people say that when you're not at war you prepare for war in this game. I always thought there should be more to that though. I know there's fief management, blacksmithing, trading, but I think there should be more internal stuff like interacting with other clans more, having personal missions with your companions or family, possibly spies or betrayals, or even actual peace negotiations between leaders of the warring factions and their vassals. I know the game is still in early access and they may add more things as time goes on or modders will do it for them, but do you think there should be more things to do in peacetime?
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like if you just sit there, and do nothing, walk away from the computer after starting the game half of your army will just like fucking die of attrition
if you attempt to spread them out? still die of attrition
god help you if you get into a war, you can build a railroad on literally every province of the frontline and the max supply you might see on a province having combat in it is like..50%
it's fucked
After reading this thread, specifically the comment by /u/azrealeus, I got to digging. After going on r/Army I found a thread titled "Missing out on combat" where servicemembers talked about their woes about signing up and never getting to do their jobs.
Obviously nowadays, most combat operations are performed by SOF, whether in Africa, Syria, Iraq, etc. And from the first post, /u/TanktopSamurai makes a great statement: " If most of the operations that an armed forces does is special operations, it is not a special operation. It is just ... an operation."
Peacetime infantry are what, just sitting in garrison, cleaning floors and being in the suck in an FTX occasionally, or your average deployment to NTC. What is it that makes leadership wary to ever deploy conventional units on anything besides HIC? Scale?
I recognize that there may not be any real place to deploy a BCT as of right now, but SOF has the most funding and most active mission, making soldiers feel as if they HAVE to be in an SOF unit to better their QOL. It cannot be sustainable, but I honestly don't have a solution, which is why I'm asking here.
In what scenarios is a transfer of capability to conventional units practical? Conventional units deploy in much larger size, and don't have the 'advisor' capability of Army Special Forces, so what would they be, a larger scale-raid force?
I've been posting on here quite a bit and it's been helping me a little bit. Due to my own dumb mindset and perhaps some successful persuasion, I enlisted 11B with a college degree.
I originally went into the recruiter's office hoping to go to OCS and somehow I got suckered in to enlisting. He told me I would make a much better Infantry Officer if I was enlisted first and going to OCS would be a lot easier while I was already in. I blame my recruiter to some extent, but I mostly blame myself for being stupid and falling for it.
I've been at a unit for a few months and I hate it. I get treated like dog sh*t, get smoked and tortured all the time by my Squad Leader even though it was my Team Leader's fault. My SL hates me because I have a college degree and constantly threatens to recommend me for demotion to a PFC. We don't train very much even though we're supposedly the "tip of the spear". I've literally started graying ever since I've gotten here. It sucks. I'm trying to apply for OCS, but I don't think my CoC will support my packet. I'm still gonna do it when the dates come out.
I just don't get why the peacetime Infantry has to be this retarded... Why is the most important MOS constantly treated like garbage? Why can't the Army teach Infantry NCOs to actually lead instead of just torturing us? Smoking, yelling, and torturing dudes who signed up to fight and possibly die for their country and comrades is not leadership. After the hell my Squad Leader's been giving me, I respect him less, not more. I just hate him and my Team Leader for being a coward and not sticking up for his Joes.
I don't know what to do, but I'm sick of this BS. I'm going to be a man, honor the commitment I made, and finish my time honorably but I will never ever recommend anyone I know to enlist in the Army as an 11B. This BS ain't worth it, while the POGs next door get treated like royalty and talk to their NCOs in a friendly yet professional manner to complete mission without all the dumb sh*t.
- Just a frustrated and depressed 11B
It's terribly inefficient to transport people or supplies to and inhabitable during the autumn and winter. Worst of all, they rely on literally one person (Mya Stone) to guide people up and down the mountain. Why not live at the Gates permanently?
Edit: I remembered that it's also safe from mountain clans but surely mountain clans can be easily dealt with from inside castle walls.
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