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Originally Posted by Olefin
and back to Ancestor's question - yes I wonder why they overlooked West Point and the various USMC training facilities when they did both the books on US forces - you would figure if the cadets and teachers were all shipped overseas that would have been mentioned - they didnt do it with the Air Force Academy after all or the School Brigade down in Texas -
the cadets and their teachers make for a rather large force of trained men and would have been used for sure, at the very least, to help maintain order in NY after the TDM
and they might have been reinforced by various ROTC detachments as well - RPI has a large ROTC detachment of various groups - enough to add close to a battalion all by itself to the West Point cadets unless the state government grabs them to help keep order in Albany
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I like the ROTC idea!!! I had my PCs, aka my teenage sons, create their characters according to their ideas - one was a West Point football player/track star from a rich Virginia family who became an Engineer and the other created a working class Irish immigrant/failed boxer turned bartender from South Boston who was drafted and ended up due to his high athletic skills in the Ranger Regiment. I had them meet (with several NPCs) in a battle in Iran in canon 1997 (our game timeline 2027) and then sent back to West Point, the officer as a DTAC and scout team football coach, the NCO as a combatives instructor. We then played several sessions in which they were on July 4th leave in Boston during the Dain Dangerous concert from Last Submarine, during which they aligned with an MA NG unit, the Irish NCO's uncle (who owned a bar and used to launder money and store weapons for the IRA, some of which were still in the wine cellar), an Irish gang, a black church, a Korean grocer and his sons, and an orthodox Jewish synagague to defeat several gangs during the rioting after the concert. I think I've beaten the east coast thing to death and I think they'd really enjoy having a Jericho-esque adventure in Kansas before I ship them off to Poland for Escape from Kalisz. KU ROTC, here we come!