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I've made a table of all the military ranks to be encountered in my T2K setting.
It was not that hard, but a pain in the butt to transcribe from wikipedia to odt file.
Not every nation uses all the same ranks as the others. Some skip ranks.
The US has four ranks (PV1, PV2, PFC, SPC) for the single rank of "private" for example.
Also fun is the Bundeswehr Heer and Nationale Volksarmee use the same ranks, but at slightly different levels in some places.
How is a SPC a private? The E-4 mafia begs to disagree.
ReplyDeleteA special lips is just an overpaid private based on the military authority that comes with their rank.
DeleteThe E-4 mafia is "extrajudicial" power stemming from being in long enough to learn how things work and where stuff is kept and having nearly zero professional responsibilities.
Zero professional responsibility because they are, at their core, privates.
A proper SPC should have Scrounging and a couple of contacts at a minimum. Fast Talk and Holdout don't hurt.