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Originally Posted by rcaf_777
In 2000 would it not be common to see combind specail forces team
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Thr party in my campaign started out in Poland as a real mixed bag, with only a few SF types and a bunch of various NATO mech inf, marines, rangers and cavalry types. As the campaign went on there was pretty high turnover of characters but we found that the SF types tended to have slightly higher rates of survivability.
By the time the party got back to the CONUS it was probably 1/3 SF types and 2/3 conventional troops. The command cadre was however all SF types. Once back in Norfolk Major Po put a great deal of effort in headhunting specifically SF personnel. He was most successful in grabbing SF types who were known to either himself or the other SF troops in his command cadre (especially former members of "Team Panama" which I have described in other posts). For the first month or so back in the CONUS he ran his unit of 20 or so bodies as a mixed bag conglomeration, forming ad-hoc teams as the need arose. Eventually though he had built his team up to in excess of 50 bodies. Then he reformed the whole unit as the spec ops task force "SOG 1" and assigned his SF personnel to permanent teams of around 10 men each. Each team tended to have one type of SF personnel. So for instance Blue Team contained mostly SEALs, SDV and SBU personnel and was led by Po's XO, USN SEAL Lt Cdr Tadeusz Jones. Black Team contained US and UK Marines and a member of the British SBS and was led by the ancient and crusty USMC Captain (formerly Gunnery Sgt) Bart Lamont (an NPC based closely on Gunny Tom Highway from "Heartbreak Ridge). Green Team contained mostly US Army Special Forces troops and was nominally commanded by Po himself (although the team's 2IC was usually in operational command). Red Team contained some Ranger qualified troops as well as some similarly qualified foreigners (including a Pakistani and a Filipino). The rest of the unit consisted of twenty-something support personnel and specialists drawn from a variety of branches and countries (off the top of my head there was a South African helicopter pilot, an F15 Eagle driver that Po had brought back from Poland, Po's girlfriend/radio operator, a mortar team, a Navy corpsman and various mechanics and technicians).
Darn it, now I really want to find all the cards for the teams. They contain the names, ranks, nicknames, major skills and personal weapons for every single member of Po's unit.