Deconstructing Veritechs

[CattyNebulart]

Building off blackaeronauts list, with clarifing notes.;

• Space Fighterpilot (space combat is not like air)
  
• Air Fighterpilot (air combat is not like space)
  
• Close-Quarters Combat
  
• Hand-to-Hand Combat
  
• Marksman Training
  
• Misselier Training (Need it for a proper macross missile massacre.)
  
• SERE
  
• 0-G training (fighting without gravity is wierd)
  
• Speciality Training (see Special forces MOS for more ideas, just came up with some) probably 2 or so from this list
  • Demolitions
    
  • Communications/Recon
    
  • Infiltration (based on Max exploits?)
    
  • Medic/Repair (first aid+ equivalent?)
    
  • Diplomatic
    
  • Battlefield Engineer (build fortifications... Veritechs probably make decent construction equipment in bateloid mode. Use head lasers for welding? lots of options)
    
• Basic Maintnance (Plane, and plane scale weapons like the gunpod. need to be able to fieldstrip the plane gunpud as well as your own sidearm)
  
• Field Command
  • 3D Tactics (you are not limited to the ground, you can liftoff again, probably a combination of airborne, helicopter and comando tactics.)
    
  • Small Squad Tactics
    
  • Urban Tactics (How to fight in narrow confined places such as in a city or when boarding a ship.)
    
  • Aerospace Tactics (interception missions, bomber escort misisons, bomber mission, CAP, etc.)
    
  • Guerrilla Warfare

It's a lot to learn...

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E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

[Black Aeronaut]

But learnable over the course of several years. Especially when some of it is simply raw experience in the field.
EDIT:Oh, this would be a fun little exchange."Where the hell did you learn to make a bomb like that?""The Anarchist's Cook Book, Mr. Hunter.  I highly recommend it to any soldier out on the field: read it, love it, live it."

[classicdrogn]

Well, except that the Anarchist's Cook Book is infamous for its dangerously incorrect formulas and procedures...

And, while the hard SF fans will always be horribly offended by it, for Macross and most anime flying and fighting in space is, in fact, just like flying and fighting in atmosphere. You bank around to turn, constant thrust gives constant velocity, no flying backwards without a VTOL mode, etc. The only real difference is not falling out of the skyif your engines stop working - which is itself a Hollywood-physics cliche, since even fighter planes can glide somewhat, though their sink rate is such that unpowered landings tend to do very unkind things to the landing gear if it survives at all.

ETA: "Where (etc"
"You get special training."
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[Rod.H]

CD, that's why the US DOD produced their own more reliable version of that book. Of cause a statement like that on SB, would be a Summon Ed moment as he no doubt knows what/has that book in question. I think it's called "manual on creating improvised demolition devices" and there's others of it kind and I think he or someone else put a link up to a pdf of it the last time it was mentioned over there. I may've grabbed a copy, or not, I can't recall or find it.

[Black Aeronaut]

Rod H wrote:

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Of cause a statement like that on SB, would be a Summon Ed moment

I don't know why, but this makes me laugh for some reason.  Probably because I get this sudden mental imagery of Ed Beccara rising from the depths like some Lovecraftian Horror and booming out, "Who Dares Summon Me!?"
But anyhow, when you put it that way...  Garrick would probably have read that book several times, cover to cover, and has a cherished spot for it in his library... well out of reach of children. 

[Rod.H]

Well, seeing that SB's down you could almost count it as attempt to see if it would bring him here. As for the book in question it had some weird code like FM-6-562-60. Now, that's either going to Summon Ed, or a TLA. In the first, Welcome back, Ed! In the other; Hello Agent Jones, we may appear to know things, but it's more likely the Hollywood version of them.