View Single Post
  #8  
Old 07-04-2009, 10:18 PM
Targan's Avatar
Targan Targan is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 3,735
Default

A pilot would have done the escape and evasion course and basic training so he'd at least have some basic skills useful to an infantryman. Also you don't get to be a pilot unless you are intelligent and have a relatively even temperament so you'd probably be a pretty fast learner.

Having said these things I think that unless circumstances dictated that infantryman was the only role for him, there would be better positions to put a grounded pilot in than infantryman. Intelligence maybe? Some kind of REMF role would make more sense.

In my campaign Major Po has an F-15E pilot in his unit, Lt John Johnson. Po's unit found Johnson working as a tinker waaay behind enemy lines in Poland and Po took Johnson back to Bremerhaven with him. Along the way Johnson proved to be very brave, determined and resourceful so Po decided to keep him around, as his personal gyrocopter pilot. Most of the time Po uses Johnson in a staff role but when he has had to Johnson has proved to be a capable warrior on the ground.
__________________
"It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

Last edited by Targan; 07-04-2009 at 10:24 PM.
Reply With Quote