Grrl Power #1001 – Arc-box achievement unlocked!
Yeah, I know, this is probably not correct procedure. We should all accept that I will get the military stuff… adjacent. And don’t worry about the ribbons too much. I cribbed Maxima’s from some Air Force Colonel’s photo I found online, then swapped a few things and might have even recolored one or two, so her salad bar is probably about 40% nonsense. When I was asking about Sydney’s ribbons, I was trying mostly trying to get an idea of how many she might have. That said, I gave her a National Defense Service, a Global War on Terror (Supervillain attacks are easy to categorize as terrorist actions), and a… um, I forgot what the third one is. Expeditionary I think. But I changed all the colors because each branch seems to have their own version. She didn’t get the Basic Military Training Honor, which is reserved for people who do exceptional during training. Sydney passed, but not exceptionally.
It’s been suggested that Sydney might have earned a purple heart for getting dinged by enemy shrapnel when she was off planet, but I think it falls below the threshold for minor wounds. Granted without Frix stitching her up, she might have had a little red scar on her cheek, but let’s be real, it would have been exactly 3.2 pages before I forgot to draw it. She also got punched in the cheek right when the super fight started at the restaurant, but I think bruises also fail to meet the severity threshold. Of course, Dabbler got like 40 little cuts when Heavenly Sword almost got her, but she probably used a “Heal Those Tiny Cuts that Barely Bleed but Mostly Just Itch” spell instead of having a “Physician with Officer Rank” treat her. Come to think of it, Harem would probably qualify when her arm got broken. Jiggawatt got deafened, Math got his nose broken. Heatwave.
Honestly, if the average superhero comic was about a military team, most team member would probably have like 9 Purple Hearts by issue 100. (Also that boxer concussion palsy.) It really feels like something I shouldn’t make light of, but even Arc-SWAT, with their somewhat relaxed schedule of the occasional action scene followed by slice of life antics interspersed with exposition, I can see the team collecting PH’s or oak leaf clusters from a bin after every debrief.
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Maxima also got HER nose broken. By Vehemence.
I have a question. When medals and awards are given out like this, shouldn’t the troops at parade rest, not attention? That is the way it has been done the times I have experienced it.
Also, when coming out of formation, it was done as a wheel, not a turn.
Yeah, DaveB doesn’t know much about military formation and drills.
In my head cannon, since ARChon is a new branch, they have been rehashing some of the more “outdated” marches and ceremony. Because honestly, we haven’t needed to march in formation during a battle since the American Civil War.
Now that I see it capitalized that way, I can’t believe Dabbler hasn’t done some variation an “Arc, hon[ey]” joke yet.
… What’s the difference between a ‘wheel’ and a ‘turn’?
A “wheel” is when the whole line of troops pivots (usually around the marcher on one end), like a clock hand.
A “turn” is when the marchers spin on the spot into a new direction (usually 90 degrees to the left or right).
Wouldn’t half the team fall off the podium if they wheeled to seperate out Halo?
Or do you mean only Halo wheels out? Does that even make sense?
Halo was the one addressed, so only she would move. The rest of the formation should be at parade rest.
When it’s only one person changing direction, is there any difference that would be visible to an outside observer? Presumably they would act as the pivot of their one-person wheel.
There is a difference between a formal drill “turn” and just curving in a direction. And if you are watching, the difference is noticeable.
Sidney should really be a warrant officer and not a private. Like how most helicopter pilots are warrants. To much power for such a lowly rank.
They have a weird mix of ranks anyway. In what other unit do you have one lieutenant colonel (Max), one major (Hiro), two lieutenants, and four corporals? And a graduating class of about six?
Yeah we don’t know the ranks for most of the guys. But it’s really top heavy.
As far as I can tell most supers become so somewhere in their late teens to early twenties. It makes sense, super-children is a really different comic and likely results in a lot more publicity even with the Veil. It does make the “I had this rank and then became a super” less likely.
I can see Max having to be an O-5 because of who she leads and who she has to deal with as a result. I doubt the President meets directly with any other O-5.
But that rank usually commands units of at least hundreds of soldiers, possibly thousands.