If you were in WitP...How would you want to serve?

jwilkerson · Post by **jwilkerson** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:29 pm

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.

Feltan · Post by **Feltan** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:36 pm

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.

Regards,
Feltan

LST Express · Post by **LST Express** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:43 pm

In the context of the game, put me in the 1st marine division.

LST Express · Post by **LST Express** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:49 pm

Better yet, put me in command of that bad boy!

jwilkerson · Post by **jwilkerson** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:51 pm

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

(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 [:D][:D][:D])

DuckofTindalos · Post by **DuckofTindalos** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:52 pm

They had latrines left by then?[:D]

LST Express · Post by **LST Express** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:05 pm

In real life I want to be bob hope's armed forces liaison.

fabertong · Post by **fabertong** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:17 pm

I've tried to join the forces many times.....but my flat feet (read flippers).......and lack of thumbs......(the whole grasping thing)......seem to count against me........I'll have to be.........let's see dictator then....

Ron Belcher · Post by **Ron Belcher** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:31 pm

I served our country in the US Navy from 1981 to 1991, as a Radioman.
Spent 7 1/2 years of 10 in the fleet. I would welcome the chance to do
it all in WW II !

- Can't stop the signal (...Serenity)

Ron Belcher · Post by **Ron Belcher** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:43 pm

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!

Feinder · Post by **Feinder** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:48 pm

The HMS Agamemnon of course!

Perhaps the proudest and most crucial ship in the Royal Navy fleet train - the brewery ship!

-F-

Canoerebel · Post by **Canoerebel** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:04 pm

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
 

John Lansford · Post by **John Lansford** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:19 pm

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).

Barb · Post by **Barb** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:28 pm

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" [8D]

GenChaos33 · Post by **GenChaos33** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:30 pm

As my avatar/sig pic shows. For my Uncle whom I was named after, who was lost Nov. '43 near Truk.

crsutton · Post by **crsutton** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:36 pm

Bob Hope

AW1Steve · Post by **AW1Steve** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:28 pm

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. [:D]

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!). [:D]

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

rogueusmc · Post by **rogueusmc** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:48 pm

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.

yoshino · Post by **yoshino** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:47 am

I would like to serve his majesty and Imperial Japan as a Zero fighter(or other naval fighters)pilot.[8D]

captskillet · Post by **captskillet** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:07 am

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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