POWs as Characters

[Matt Wiser]

How many here had a character in the group (PC or NPC) who had been a POW at some point? In the old CSU Fresno group, we had two. Both USAF, one a helo pilot and one an F-15E WSO. Both female. After the guards at their POW compound disappeared one day in 1999, the POWs took off, but these two were recaptured by a Soviet unit, and used not just for labor (cutting wood, digging latrines, etc.) but also for...."comfort to the soldiers."
Our group found the Soviet unit one night, and attacked their laager; we freed the two, and killed every last Russian we found. (explaining why we have a T-72 and a Ural-375 truck in the unit in the process) We had them as the "bad guy" in the "Good Guy-Bad Guy" interrogation technique, and I'd explain to the prisoner that these two ladies had gone through hell, and were looking to take revenge on any Russian they found. The kind of end where the screaming gave out before the body did, and one of 'em would make a show of sharpening a large combat knife in view of the subject being interrogated.

They did share one thing with a prominent NPC who also had been a POW for a time (Capt. Molly Warren): they had a habit of summarily killing any Russian who fell into our hands-our defectors were "good Russians" because they were on our side. But anyone who fought us and was in a Soviet uniform? Dead men walking, as far as they were concerned.

Anyone else have ex-POWs as part of your group?