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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 4:31:02 PM   
Grotius


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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 5:12:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		I share the sentiment expressed by some that: "wouldn't . . . war isn't fun," "allergy to bullets." etc. Having never served in a military, let alone combat, it is perhaps vain and presumptuous to say I'd "wish" to be in one . . . However, in the interest of good fun . . .

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

HYPO Unit (MAGIC codebreaker unit in Hawaii).


In real life, at age 19 I was torn between college and enlisting in the Navy, who based on my ASVABs wanted to make me a "cryptographer."

So I think I'd be best suited to serve with Rtrapasso back in Oahu, keeping all you guys' sweethearts company while you are way storming atolls and shooting down Meatballs

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 6:14:05 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Terminus
I wouldn't. War isn't fun.



But this thread isn't about war - it is about WITP - so you can be the bits on the left - or the bits on the right! That is if you were "in" WITP.



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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 6:16:19 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 6:22:26 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 6:28:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to have been in the VMF-214. I would have loved to have served with ole Pappy B and the gang.

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 6:59:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		In USS Bluegill, my father's old boat. Sank a Jap light cruiser, among others. Survived the war to become a Guppy boat. Used early in the Vietnam War to do some skullduggery up and about North Vietnam way.

Now a diving reef near Oahu. (Or was. They may have moved her due to pollution.)

In the game she's the only boat I hand-manage, and Capt. Barr and the boys always Go in Harm's Way.

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:23:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, way to kill a thread some of you.
I think most of you who say you would not have served, many of you would not have had a choice. Most nations had a little something called a draft that rounded up it's every day citizens and put them out into the field. Many had rear duty jobs of some sort. But many also fought and fought with distinction.
Maybe I will just play the draft board and decide where the non volunteers get stationed


Terminus just got assigned to a minesweeper

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:26:28 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus
I wouldn't. War isn't fun.



But this thread isn't about war - it is about WITP - so you can be the bits on the left - or the bits on the right! That is if you were "in" WITP.




I would rather be a "1" than a "0"


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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:29:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		If called I hope I would do my duty - and I did serve my time in the "chow line" - though I was too young for WWII. But the idea that combat is "glory" doesn't seem to sit with the people I've talked to who have been there - so saying I would want to be torpedoing the Shinano - or I would want to be bombing Taiho - or other such stuff - doesn't seem to match up with the reality of having to do it. A few adults probably enjoy combat - most do it out of a sense of having to - and then a few run away. I figure I would fall in the middle - but no one knows until they do it.



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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:36:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, in real life I did four years with the U.S. 7th Infantry Division -- so I'd like to think that is where I'd be in a virtual WITP world. However, this time, I'll be the Commander instead of one of the commanded. :-)

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:43:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		In the context of the game, put me in the 1st marine division.

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:49:32 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:51:55 PM   
jwilkerson


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Status: offline 		If I get a choice - I'll be in charge of the girls dressing room at the USO club

(somehow I feel like if it was real life - I would not get my choice - and I would be in charge of the latrines on Bataan on April 1st, 1942 )



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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 7:52:45 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 8:05:25 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 8:17:32 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 8:31:13 PM   
Ron Belcher


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Spent 7 1/2 years of 10 in the fleet. I would welcome the chance to do
it all in WW II !

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 8:43:38 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

In USS Bluegill, my father's old boat. Sank a Jap light cruiser, among others. Survived the war to become a Guppy boat. Used early in the Vietnam War to do some skullduggery up and about North Vietnam way.

Now a diving reef near Oahu. (Or was. They may have moved her due to pollution.)

In the game she's the only boat I hand-manage, and Capt. Barr and the boys always Go in Harm's Way.


My first ship was the Callaghan DDG-994. Named after Admiral Callaghan who lost his life aboard his
flagship the USS San Francisco CA-38. So, I hand-manage the 'ol San Fran as well! Keep em afloat
and dealin' the cards!




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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 8:48:16 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 9:04:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		My choices (keeping in mind that this is a game, so that I don't actually die, but I don't know that so there's an element of uncertainty about the fragility of life so that when I come through okay all of life is sweet - got it?):

1.  Flying Tigers
2.  Doolittle's Raiders
3.  With Ensign Pulver as he scopes out nurses.
4.  With Ensign George Gay
5.  Beside a Aussie coastwatcher in the Solomons
6.  Next to Merrit Edson, commander of the 1st Marine Raiders, at Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal
7.  PT-109
8.  Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three as it carries MacArthur and family from Corregidor to Mindanao
9.  No. 75 Squadron RAAF at Port Moresby
10.  With the 5th Marine Division on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 9:19:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Meteorologist assigned to a HQ unit.  It was what I always wanted to do in the USN but I washed out of boot camp thanks to a torn Achilles' tendon I got back in junior high.

Plus I like to study the weather.  Based on my current occupation, though, I'd probably have ended up either commanding a base force or a Seabee unit (now a civil engineer).

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 9:28:32 PM   
Barb


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Status: offline 		Well, I am a foreigner, but you can look just to my banner to see a unit :) I would like to give hand to "Pappy" Gunn, fly one of his B-25 strafers over the Rabaul. And get back just "on a wing and a prayer" 

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 9:30:26 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 9:36:52 PM   
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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/11/2009 11:28:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: USS America

I think, I'd prefer to be assigned to the CentPac HQ in Hawaii.  Not too many people trying to kill me there. 


That would be CinCPAC. And obviously you have never served on staff. The bullets are shot at you from behind (and so are the knives in your back!).

I had the misfortune to serve on three different wings (the only shore duty that I could get!).

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/12/2009 2:48:20 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Japan


There is no such thing as Duty, that is only propaganda, and as with all Propaganda only narrow minded or ignorant people believe in it.


Imagine leaving your continuing freedom in the hands of someone you deem to be ignorant...not the brightest thing to do but to each his own.

Call me ignorant but lemme into the 1st MarDiv and I'll do my damndest to make sure I do my part.

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/12/2009 10:47:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I would like to serve his majesty and Imperial Japan as a Zero fighter(or other naval fighters)pilot.

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RE: If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve? - 6/12/2009 11:07:04 AM   
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And in response to Japan - there is a thing called duty - even baboons understand that. Read Heinlein..it's is good reading for the uninformed - which means not completely inwardly formed..

And I subscribe to the "my country, right or wrong" line. But, I subscribe to the complete thought...

"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”


Amen Rev.........I haven't used the green button in awhile so's I think I'll put it to use.

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