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Hansdeltania wrote:If the Colonel is active, then I'm probably going to be either the XO or DCO. If I become the CO, I'm probably going to need a First Sergeant.

(thumbsup)

Hansdeltania wrote:

Tiltjuice wrote:
I know, I'm one of the four. Nevermind, I'll get it.

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Tito / The Colonel
NE / Cyril
Hans / Jack
Sci / William
Cami / Noémie
me

We should probably get a team leader who's more active.

If the Colonel is active, then I'm probably going to be either the XO or DCO. If I become the CO, I'm probably going to need a First Sergeant.

You realize Joseph is the head Enlisted Member of the Team?

Also jumping from Lt to Lt Col is a bit of a stretch.

Hansdeltania wrote:So, did New Equestria leave and not have the chopper go in?

Nope, still here. Just waiting for posts of getting in or something, or at least some acknowledgment. I don't want to leave if the rest of you aren't ready, but if those active are okay with it, I can start the flight. Can also do some time stuff so it coincides with Hussar team's arrival.

I hope you guys are still accepting new characters.

Name: Ghazal Ahmadkhel
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Nationality: Afghan
Ethnicity: Pashtun
Appearance: About 5'4" with an athletic body type. She has tanned skin, green eyes, and mid back length black hair, almost always worn in a braided style of some sort.
Preferred Weapons (PICK TWO: Primary and sidearm.): M4A1, Beretta 92FS
Previous military and/or law enforcement experience: Afghan National Army: 2011-2016. All but one year was spent in the Afghan Partnering Unit. Most combat experience involved night raids against Taliban and Islamic State targets. The only major battle she was involved in was he operation to retake the city of Kunduz from the Taliban in 2015
Specialization: Direct action raids, night operations, mountain warfare, desert warfare
Education: Attended school until the age of 18
Native speaker of Pashto, fluently speaks Dari Persian, and can speak English to an advanced, although not fluent, level.
Biography (more than 2 paragraphs, please): Ghazal was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1993, three years before the Taliban seized control of the country. Like everyone else, Ghazal and her family suffered under Taliban rule, although being Pashtuns and Sunni Muslims made the Taliban give them minimal trouble. She was also lucky in that her mother had been a school teacher before the Taliban had taken over, so she and her siblings were able to have some form of education, however limited that was when it had to be conducted in secret, away from the eyes of the Taliban.

With the fall of the Taliban, she was finally able to attend a real school and get a proper education. It was at this point the remarkably progressive views of her parents, at least in comparison to most of Afghan society, started to shine through. It was impressed upon her that Afghanistan was a free country again, and she didn't have to feel pushed in to the traditional role of wife and mother. She was encouraged to study hard in school in the hopes that she could be accepted into a university in the United States or Canada, and get a degree that would allow her to do something good for her country.

As she got older, however, this plan changed. She started to see women in the police, and serving in both coalition forces and the Afghan military. And so, she decided joining the police or the military was the best way she could help her country. When news came out of the first women being accepted into the Afghan Partnering Unit, Afghanistan's most elite special forces unit, and a hope that there would be more female operators in this unit soon, this only strengthened her desire to join the military, with her goal of becoming one of those special operators. Her family tried to stop her, but they eventually gave in and at the age of 18, she enlisted in the Afghan National Army. She wasn't allowed to try out for the APU as soon as she enlisted, so for about a year she was confined to a desk job until she was given an opportunity to try out for the unit. During this time, she worked on getting into the best physical shape she possibly could

Training for the APU was a difficult experience. There weren't as many physical demands on the female recruits, but they were still expected to be able to shoot, clear rooms, fast rope out of helicopters, and do almost everything else that was expected of the male operators. Ghazal was lucky enough to be one of the few women to successfully complete the training. Almost immediately, she found herself in the field conducting operations.

The majority of her operations involved conducting night time raids to capture or kill Taliban, and by 2015, Islamic State, commanders, or to gather intel about the Taliban and the Islamic State. Most of these raids were quick although some resulted in prolonged gun fights. One of her responsibilities was supposed to be to stay back and help protect the women and children during gun battles, but more often than not she found herself engaging the enemy side by side with her male counterparts, both Afghan and NATO. One particularly close call for her happened during an early mission when a fragmentation round from an RPG-7 impacted near her, but failing to detonate because the Taliban fighter who fired it had failed to remove the safety cap. Since then, her career had been full of such lucky breaks and near misses. She was sure her luck would run out at some point, but the other soldiers in her unit thought it was good luck when she came on missions with them and she went along with it.

The largest battle Ghazal faced as a soldier came in the summer of 2015, when the Taliban captured the city of Kunduz. In the initial push from the surrounding areas and into the city, she was part of a team that was tasked with taking a school where the Taliban had been holding students and teachers hostage, using them as human shields while they fired mortars from the school's roof. After capturing the school, they held it against sporadic Taliban counterattacks for several hours, until being reinforced by a larger force of ANA Commandos. In total, she estimates that she killed 10 Taliban during the battle.

In 2016, Ghazal was approached by one of her commanding officers about being posted to a multinational counterterrorist force known as the Peacekeepers. She would serve with them, operate alongside some of the best that the international special operations community has to offer, and return to Afghanistan to work as an instructor for future female recruits in the APU, using the knowledge and skills gained to help give them a higher level of training. She had been selected for this operation as she was one of only a few female operatives in the APU who could speak English. Ghazal accepted this offer, seeing it as yet another step in her mission to try to do something to make her country a better place.
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Dayganistan wrote:I hope you guys are still accepting new characters.

Name: Ghazal Ahmadkhel
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Nationality: Afghan
Ethnicity: Pashtun
Appearance: About 5'4" with an athletic body type. She has tanned skin, green eyes, and mid back length black hair, almost always worn in a braided style of some sort.
Preferred Weapons (PICK TWO: Primary and sidearm.): M4A1, Beretta 92FS
Previous military and/or law enforcement experience: Afghan National Army: 2011-2016. All but one year was spent in the Afghan Partnering Unit. Most combat experience involved night raids against Taliban and Islamic State targets. The only major battle she was involved in was he operation to retake the city of Kunduz from the Taliban in 2015
Specialization: Direct action raids, night operations, mountain warfare, desert warfare
Education: Attended school until the age of 18
Native speaker of Pashto, fluently speaks Dari Persian, and can speak English to an advanced, although not fluent, level.
Biography (more than 2 paragraphs, please): Ghazal was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1993, three years before the Taliban seized control of the country. Like everyone else, Ghazal and her family suffered under Taliban rule, although being Pashtuns and Sunni Muslims made the Taliban give them minimal trouble. She was also lucky in that her mother had been a school teacher before the Taliban had taken over, so she and her siblings were able to have some form of education, however limited that was when it had to be conducted in secret, away from the eyes of the Taliban.

With the fall of the Taliban, she was finally able to attend a real school and get a proper education. It was at this point the remarkably progressive views of her parents, at least in comparison to most of Afghan society, started to shine through. It was impressed upon her that Afghanistan was a free country again, and she didn't have to feel pushed in to the traditional role of wife and mother. She was encouraged to study hard in school in the hopes that she could be accepted into a university in the United States or Canada, and get a degree that would allow her to do something good for her country.

As she got older, however, this plan changed. She started to see women in the police, and serving in both coalition forces and the Afghan military. And so, she decided joining the police or the military was the best way she could help her country. When news came out of the first women being accepted into the Afghan Partnering Unit, Afghanistan's most elite special forces unit, and a hope that there would be more female operators in this unit soon, this only strengthened her desire to join the military, with her goal of becoming one of those special operators. Her family tried to stop her, but they eventually gave in and at the age of 18, she enlisted in the Afghan National Army. She wasn't allowed to try out for the APU as soon as she enlisted, so for about a year she was confined to a desk job until she was given an opportunity to try out for the unit. During this time, she worked on getting into the best physical shape she possibly could

Training for the APU was a difficult experience. There weren't as many physical demands on the female recruits, but they were still expected to be able to shoot, clear rooms, fast rope out of helicopters, and do almost everything else that was expected of the male operators. Ghazal was lucky enough to be one of the few women to successfully complete the training. Almost immediately, she found herself in the field conducting operations.

The majority of her operations involved conducting night time raids to capture or kill Taliban, and by 2015, Islamic State, commanders, or to gather intel about the Taliban and the Islamic State. Most of these raids were quick although some resulted in prolonged gun fights. One of her responsibilities was supposed to be to stay back and help protect the women and children during gun battles, but more often than not she found herself engaging the enemy side by side with her male counterparts, both Afghan and NATO. One particularly close call for her happened during an early mission when a fragmentation round from an RPG-7 impacted near her, but failing to detonate because the Taliban fighter who fired it had failed to remove the safety cap. Since then, her career had been full of such lucky breaks and near misses. She was sure her luck would run out at some point, but the other soldiers in her unit thought it was good luck when she came on missions with them and she went along with it.

The largest battle Ghazal faced as a soldier came in the summer of 2015, when the Taliban captured the city of Kunduz. In the initial push from the surrounding areas and into the city, she was part of a team that was tasked with taking a school where the Taliban had been holding students and teachers hostage, using them as human shields while they fired mortars from the school's roof. After capturing the school, they held it against sporadic Taliban counterattacks for several hours, until being reinforced by a larger force of ANA Commandos. In total, she estimates that she killed 10 Taliban during the battle.

In 2016, Ghazal was approached by one of her commanding officers about being posted to a multinational counterterrorist force known as the Peacekeepers. She would serve with them, operate alongside some of the best that the international special operations community has to offer, and return to Afghanistan to work as an instructor for future female recruits in the APU, using the knowledge and skills gained to help give them a higher level of training. She had been selected for this operation as she was one of only a few female operatives in the APU who could speak English. Ghazal accepted this offer, seeing it as yet another step in her mission to try to do something to make her country a better place.
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Well look at app when I get the chance

Kyraina wrote:

Hansdeltania wrote:If the Colonel is active, then I'm probably going to be either the XO or DCO. If I become the CO, I'm probably going to need a First Sergeant.

You realize Joseph is the head Enlisted Member of the Team?

Also jumping from Lt to Lt Col is a bit of a stretch.

When did I say that I became an O-5?

Hansdeltania wrote:

Kyraina wrote:You realize Joseph is the head Enlisted Member of the Team?

Also jumping from Lt to Lt Col is a bit of a stretch.

When did I say that I became an O-5?

XO/DCO is always the same rank or one rank lower then the commander. A O-1 through O-3 would never be a XO/DCO they. Are to junior and rank.

Kyraina wrote:

Hansdeltania wrote:When did I say that I became an O-5?

XO/DCO is always the same rank or one rank lower then the commander. A O-1 through O-3 would never be a XO/DCO they. Are to junior and rank.

And how often is it that colonels pick up rifles and assault enemy fortifications? Besides which, XO's are not necessarily immediately junior in rank to the CO, they are simply the designated second in command. That position normally falls to the next highest ranking officer because that's the easiest way to do it (it maintains the chain of command), and the next highest ranking officer is normally immediately junior in rank because that's the way most military units are structured. But the Peacekeepers are not like most military units, things are necessarily going to be different for them.

Anyways, if you want the rank structure to make sense for a group like the Peacekeepers then virtually everyone going into the field should be a non-com, and only one or two would be lieutenants (and maybe, but not likely, there would be a single major or captain). A colonel certainly would not; they've got shit that needs doing and orders that need giving; they're in charge of the whole thing, and far too important to risk being blown to smithereens.

Camicon wrote:

Kyraina wrote:XO/DCO is always the same rank or one rank lower then the commander. A O-1 through O-3 would never be a XO/DCO they. Are to junior and rank.

And how often is it that colonels pick up rifles and assault enemy fortifications? Besides which, XO's are not necessarily immediately junior in rank to the CO, they are simply the designated second in command. That position normally falls to the next highest ranking officer because that's the easiest way to do it (it maintains the chain of command), and the next highest ranking officer is normally immediately junior in rank because that's the way most military units are structured. But the Peacekeepers are not like most military units, things are necessarily going to be different for them.

Anyways, if you want the rank structure to make sense for a group like the Peacekeepers then virtually everyone going into the field should be a non-com, and only one or two would be lieutenants (and maybe, but not likely, there would be a single major or captain). A colonel certainly would not; they've got shit that needs doing and orders that need giving; they're in charge of the whole thing, and far too important to risk being blown to smithereens.

I may not remember correctly, but didn't the USMC deploy a few Colonels to the frontlines during the '03 Invasion of Iraq?

Anowa wrote:

Camicon wrote:And how often is it that colonels pick up rifles and assault enemy fortifications? Besides which, XO's are not necessarily immediately junior in rank to the CO, they are simply the designated second in command. That position normally falls to the next highest ranking officer because that's the easiest way to do it (it maintains the chain of command), and the next highest ranking officer is normally immediately junior in rank because that's the way most military units are structured. But the Peacekeepers are not like most military units, things are necessarily going to be different for them.

Anyways, if you want the rank structure to make sense for a group like the Peacekeepers then virtually everyone going into the field should be a non-com, and only one or two would be lieutenants (and maybe, but not likely, there would be a single major or captain). A colonel certainly would not; they've got shit that needs doing and orders that need giving; they're in charge of the whole thing, and far too important to risk being blown to smithereens.

I may not remember correctly, but didn't the USMC deploy a few Colonels to the frontlines during the '03 Invasion of Iraq?

Maybe, but even if they did that's an entire friggin' army during the invasion of a sovereign state. The Peacekeepers are an anti-terror force, more akin to a small part of JTF2 or a couple of SEAL teams.

Camicon wrote:

Anowa wrote:I may not remember correctly, but didn't the USMC deploy a few Colonels to the frontlines during the '03 Invasion of Iraq?

Maybe, but even if they did that's an entire friggin' army during the invasion of a sovereign state. The Peacekeepers are an anti-terror force, more akin to a small part of JTF2 or a couple of SEAL teams.

Yes, but Colonels being part of frontline troops isn't unheard of, real fucking rare, but not out of the question.

Anowa wrote:

Camicon wrote:Maybe, but even if they did that's an entire friggin' army during the invasion of a sovereign state. The Peacekeepers are an anti-terror force, more akin to a small part of JTF2 or a couple of SEAL teams.

Yes, but Colonels being part of frontline troops isn't unheard of, real fucking rare, but not out of the question.

Also Thee Spec Ops community is small, so it's not unheard of for a 0-6 to deploy into the field. The head of the task force I was attached to in Afghanistan was a Colonel and he went into the field with us alot.

What time of day is it that we're attacking?

Anowa wrote:What time of day is it that we're attacking?

When plane landed it was already dark so just after midnight it seems
Could be wrong.

Also Kyraina, how accurate is this?
https://www.zombiehunters.org/wiki/images/HandSignals.jpg

Anowa wrote:Also Kyraina, how accurate is this?
https://www.zombiehunters.org/wiki/images/HandSignals.jpg

It's close enough

Dayganistan wrote:I hope you guys are still accepting new characters.

Name: Ghazal Ahmadkhel
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Nationality: Afghan
Ethnicity: Pashtun
Appearance: About 5'4" with an athletic body type. She has tanned skin, green eyes, and mid back length black hair, almost always worn in a braided style of some sort.
Preferred Weapons (PICK TWO: Primary and sidearm.): M4A1, Beretta 92FS
Previous military and/or law enforcement experience: Afghan National Army: 2011-2016. All but one year was spent in the Afghan Partnering Unit. Most combat experience involved night raids against Taliban and Islamic State targets. The only major battle she was involved in was he operation to retake the city of Kunduz from the Taliban in 2015
Specialization: Direct action raids, night operations, mountain warfare, desert warfare
Education: Attended school until the age of 18
Native speaker of Pashto, fluently speaks Dari Persian, and can speak English to an advanced, although not fluent, level.
Biography (more than 2 paragraphs, please): Ghazal was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1993, three years before the Taliban seized control of the country. Like everyone else, Ghazal and her family suffered under Taliban rule, although being Pashtuns and Sunni Muslims made the Taliban give them minimal trouble. She was also lucky in that her mother had been a school teacher before the Taliban had taken over, so she and her siblings were able to have some form of education, however limited that was when it had to be conducted in secret, away from the eyes of the Taliban.

With the fall of the Taliban, she was finally able to attend a real school and get a proper education. It was at this point the remarkably progressive views of her parents, at least in comparison to most of Afghan society, started to shine through. It was impressed upon her that Afghanistan was a free country again, and she didn't have to feel pushed in to the traditional role of wife and mother. She was encouraged to study hard in school in the hopes that she could be accepted into a university in the United States or Canada, and get a degree that would allow her to do something good for her country.

As she got older, however, this plan changed. She started to see women in the police, and serving in both coalition forces and the Afghan military. And so, she decided joining the police or the military was the best way she could help her country. When news came out of the first women being accepted into the Afghan Partnering Unit, Afghanistan's most elite special forces unit, and a hope that there would be more female operators in this unit soon, this only strengthened her desire to join the military, with her goal of becoming one of those special operators. Her family tried to stop her, but they eventually gave in and at the age of 18, she enlisted in the Afghan National Army. She wasn't allowed to try out for the APU as soon as she enlisted, so for about a year she was confined to a desk job until she was given an opportunity to try out for the unit. During this time, she worked on getting into the best physical shape she possibly could

Training for the APU was a difficult experience. There weren't as many physical demands on the female recruits, but they were still expected to be able to shoot, clear rooms, fast rope out of helicopters, and do almost everything else that was expected of the male operators. Ghazal was lucky enough to be one of the few women to successfully complete the training. Almost immediately, she found herself in the field conducting operations.

The majority of her operations involved conducting night time raids to capture or kill Taliban, and by 2015, Islamic State, commanders, or to gather intel about the Taliban and the Islamic State. Most of these raids were quick although some resulted in prolonged gun fights. One of her responsibilities was supposed to be to stay back and help protect the women and children during gun battles, but more often than not she found herself engaging the enemy side by side with her male counterparts, both Afghan and NATO. One particularly close call for her happened during an early mission when a fragmentation round from an RPG-7 impacted near her, but failing to detonate because the Taliban fighter who fired it had failed to remove the safety cap. Since then, her career had been full of such lucky breaks and near misses. She was sure her luck would run out at some point, but the other soldiers in her unit thought it was good luck when she came on missions with them and she went along with it.

The largest battle Ghazal faced as a soldier came in the summer of 2015, when the Taliban captured the city of Kunduz. In the initial push from the surrounding areas and into the city, she was part of a team that was tasked with taking a school where the Taliban had been holding students and teachers hostage, using them as human shields while they fired mortars from the school's roof. After capturing the school, they held it against sporadic Taliban counterattacks for several hours, until being reinforced by a larger force of ANA Commandos. In total, she estimates that she killed 10 Taliban during the battle.

In 2016, Ghazal was approached by one of her commanding officers about being posted to a multinational counterterrorist force known as the Peacekeepers. She would serve with them, operate alongside some of the best that the international special operations community has to offer, and return to Afghanistan to work as an instructor for future female recruits in the APU, using the knowledge and skills gained to help give them a higher level of training. She had been selected for this operation as she was one of only a few female operatives in the APU who could speak English. Ghazal accepted this offer, seeing it as yet another step in her mission to try to do something to make her country a better place.
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Welcome aboard

I'm back and I don't know what to post.

Oh, and Jesus Christ what the hell happened in here?

The Yuktobanian Republic wrote:I'm back and I don't know what to post.

Oh, and Jesus Christ what the hell happened in here?

What do you mean

What rank would the Silberlöwe be?

Kyraina wrote:

The Yuktobanian Republic wrote:I'm back and I don't know what to post.

Oh, and Jesus Christ what the hell happened in here?

What do you mean

The World War 2 thing.

The Yuktobanian Republic wrote:

Kyraina wrote:What do you mean

The World War 2 thing.

Just a disagreement between who played a bigger part based on what statistic you use.

Kyraina wrote:

The Yuktobanian Republic wrote:The World War 2 thing.

Just a disagreement between who played a bigger part based on what statistic you use.

No, it actually was a disagreement about who played the biggest part.

Greater Slavic Union wrote:

Kyraina wrote:Just a disagreement between who played a bigger part based on what statistic you use.

No, it actually was a disagreement about who played the biggest part.

Does it really fucking matter though? We were a fucking team. It shouldn't matter.

Greater Slavic Union wrote:

Kyraina wrote:Just a disagreement between who played a bigger part based on what statistic you use.

No, it actually was a disagreement about who played the biggest part.

Pfft, obviously the Greeks changed the course of the entire war!