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Originally Posted by copeab
I would tend to think that most soldiers in 2000 are not career professionals, who I think would have mostly killed by then, but drafted civilians after the start of the war. Most people in 2000 are in the military because they were forced to be, not because they wanted to be, and I expect that to color their motivations a great deal.
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While I agree with your logic I don't think that this is how the character generation rules tend to work. Most players seem to generate PCs who are one of the few remaining career soldiers.
One of the criticisms of the character generation system (in my opinion) is that you tend to end up with a group of career military PCs and that the majority of them are NCOs with possibly a Captain or a Major in charge. While that will often work as a group I've always felt that it is slightly "unrealistic" (if you can use that word to describe a RPG) as there should be some recent draftee Privates/PFC/L.Cpl etc (depending on the nationality of the characters).
Essentially the way the character generation system works the resulting PCs seem to be the command element of a larger unit, though that unit is often missing (unless the GM wants to run 20ish NPCs).