Heh. In the long run, basic military training and army service did help my writing.
In the short term, I found myself largely unable to work on any fiction projects involving military or paramilitary characters...or even dynamics. Too close to home, as it were.
Hopefully you'll have a more immediately positive experience. =)
I think it's fairly reasonable to have someone with the...I dunno, power and sheer one-man-army badassitude of your standard military science fiction supersoldier reporting directly to someone way up the chain.
What I don't understand, though, is why said soldier would have an enlisted rank.
I mean, take fighter pilots, for example - in most militaries, they're commissioned officers. Because of what they drive.
Chief Petty Officer or, in the case of HALO's protagonist, Master Chief...are high as enlisted ranks go, and reasonable for a soldier in charge of a special forces unit.
But I'd expect someone who's essentially a humanoid weapon of mass destruction to hold a higher status.
-- Acyl
In the short term, I found myself largely unable to work on any fiction projects involving military or paramilitary characters...or even dynamics. Too close to home, as it were.
Hopefully you'll have a more immediately positive experience. =)
I think it's fairly reasonable to have someone with the...I dunno, power and sheer one-man-army badassitude of your standard military science fiction supersoldier reporting directly to someone way up the chain.
What I don't understand, though, is why said soldier would have an enlisted rank.
I mean, take fighter pilots, for example - in most militaries, they're commissioned officers. Because of what they drive.
Chief Petty Officer or, in the case of HALO's protagonist, Master Chief...are high as enlisted ranks go, and reasonable for a soldier in charge of a special forces unit.
But I'd expect someone who's essentially a humanoid weapon of mass destruction to hold a higher status.
-- Acyl