Proposal: Types of Project Teams

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TM 1-1 advises us that the Project consists of personnel split into three branches, Recon, MARS, and Science, with a fourth, Specialty consisting of members assigned from the Big Three.

So, dealing with a mix of freezing weather, recovering from surgery, not enough sleep, too little caffeine and two insane cats performing the 0800 Crazies….I’m Back with yet another Proposal thread!

I’ve got no problems with the Big Three as written, fairly straight forward and they constitute the majority of the Project. But I’d like to add two more branches, Medical and Logistics & Support.

The Medical Branch consists of the trained Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, Lab Technicians and supporting staff. During the operational phase of the Project, these are the people who would operate the hospitals, the mobile Medical Teams and provide the Team Medics.

Why split the medical personnel from the science personnel, you ask? While broadly similar in training and outlook, the two branches do operate very differently in real life. The science people are more concerned with the practical use of the numerous scientific fields but may not be really suited for interactions with the survivors, not to mention how it would be a waste of precious training/experience to have, for example, a PhD in Nuclear Physics digging a drainage ditch while three counties over, there is a nuclear power station…

The medical people are more concerned with the healing side of science. IMHO they are better suited for personal interaction, not to mention that their training and equipment/supply needs are vastly different.

Logistics & Support, basically is everyone else in the Project. These are the people manning the fixed bases, operating any Project aviation and marine assets, in other words, the cooks, the bakers, the HVAC repair people, the power generation technicians, the engineers, well you get the idea. If you decided to allow dependents for the team members, then they may very well wind up in L&S, the behind the scenes backbone of the Project.
Thoughts?