[OOC] Jungle Fever: A Vietnam War Survival RP

[Error]

Done!

[idlehands]

Just for a heads up. I can do long posts but dont expect too many posts. I mean ill be active but I have to juggle two accouts

@Error

Long posts are not required, quality over quantity. What other account do you have?

[Tearstone]

I'll try to get in a post today. Not sure how well I'm going to be able to. I may have a nasty spider bite on my face I got in my sleep a couple days ago.

[RoadRash]

Just for a heads up. I can do long posts but dont expect too many posts. I mean ill be active but I have to juggle two accouts

@Error

As long as you can meet the "one every 72 hours" minimum, we can work with it. We've got a good flow going though, so if you can't meet that, just know that your character may well get smoked. Not trying to be a dick, but them's the rules and such.

[Error]

My alt? That is an secret that I cannot tell. This is a new start on this one.

[idlehands]

My alt? That is an secret that I cannot tell. This is a new start on this one.

@Error

So mysterious.

Working on a post now. @Tearstone Fucking spiders, I hope you're still alive.

[Error]

Was I accepted?

[HeySeuss]

Was I accepted?

@Error

It's not my job to accept characters or any of that, but I can provide some feedback; your character probably, in order to be an officer in the United States Army (since 1944 saw a lot of Americans in the UK; WWII) needs to be a United States citizen, so it's probably best to say that his father was an American servicemember and his mother is British, and sure, born in the UK -- not a problem.

If his father was from the US, odds are he was a GI or an officer. If you want me to shake and bake information like unit and background, I'd be happy to help provide that sort of fluff.

As to being raised in the UK, I'd say that right after WWII, the UK was rationed and going through really hard times whereas the United States was having an economic boom, so it'd make sense that the family would move back and he'd be raised primarily in the US, which is why he'd go to a college/university in the US and commission through Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) which was a booming business in the Vietnam years -- they needed as many college boys to turn into butterbars as they could lay hands on.

The M-14 is an unusual choice for an officer, in that the weapon is fairly heavy to begin with (depending on the officer, they might be more worried about weight savings than the full power of an M-14) and also in that Air Cav were early adopters of the M-16 (because it was light and handy when mounting/dismounting aircraft in airmobile operations) and the Colt Commander tends to be a piece that colonels and above, often staff types, might carry if they weren't expecting to go into the field. An infantry officer at the junior grade would probably be more reassured by packing an M1911A1 (which, admittedly, has been over-issued in this RP... ;) ). The place you're most likely to encounter M-14 is Army combat engineer units (infantry gets first pick of the M-16's), possibly Navy types on the PBR's in the Brown Water Navy and Marine rifle units because the the Corps had (have) a cult of accuracy and a lot of them preferred the M-14 to the M-16, which had a bad reputation in some circles.

That's not to say of course, that there aren't a lot of options for an officer that wants something lighter. M3A1 grease guns are totally around, and they use .45ACP which is an issue item in Vietnam for the Army. There's more exotic stuff, but keeping it fed with ammo is a bigger problem and that sort of thing tends to show up in special operations units...and not even all of them. MACV-SOG recon teams, SEAL platoons and Army Special Forces units had access to a lot of interesting shit, but they still had a hard time arming their recon teams with Colt Carbines because the Rear-Echelon Motherfuckers (REMFs) tended to take them (and the jungle boots and other shit intended for infantry use) as their personal trophies to show off what a badass they were while the grunts sweated in wool uniforms and all-leather boots in a stinking jungle.

Also, binoculars, map, compass. These are very necessary tools of an infantry officer's trade.

But the big one is this; the US Army doesn't just commission random Brits to lead its infantry outfits.

Just my view on where you can tighten up the character sheet, though.

[Tearstone]

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[HeySeuss]

Incidentally, I settled on what sort of SMG Barnes found; Swedish m45 Carl Gustav; Uncle Sam provided them to CIDG's, who could easily funnel them to Viet Cong.

I just like the fuckin' Carl Gustav. ;)

[idlehands]

Incidentally, I settled on what sort of SMG Barnes found; Swedish m45 Carl Gustav; Uncle Sam provided them to CIDG's, who could easily funnel them to Viet Cong.

I just like the fuckin' Carl Gustav. ;)

@HeySeuss

Hider

What's not to love?

[HeySeuss]

Exercise inspired hook; Buck takes a mosin round to the helmet. At the very least, bell ringer and bye bye steel pot. I figure we can have more scratches, grazes and near hits. ;)

[Byrd Man]

Not much of a post, but I was due one.

[idlehands]

Whorehouse anecdotes are always welcome.

[Tearstone]

I'm still alive

[idlehands]

I had to reply to that @Byrd Man

@Tearstone You must not live in Australia, be thankful.

[HeySeuss]

Whorehouse anecdotes are always welcome.

@idlehands

I added some. Subic Bay, back in the day, was known far and wide for the best brothels. One of my good friends was stationed there for a good long time over a career in the Navy (he retired after 30 years as a Command Master Chief.)

So I threw in that bit about Subic.

[RoadRash]

...Oh, Pattaya Beach, Thailand...Truly, you are adult Disney World...

[Tearstone]

I had to reply to that @Byrd Man

@Tearstone You must not live in Australia, be thankful.

@idlehands

Nope, I live in the United States. I have a few friends that live in Australia though.

[HeySeuss]

Now I'm watching a lot of this "Vietnam in HD" because it's a lot of raw footage. This really was the first war where we had a lot of it.

I still recommend "About Face" as a really nitty-gritty combat memoir though. Hackworth retired with a fuckton of purple hearts and silver stars.