| Mercs Military Units Theory [message #357915]
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Sun, 18 August 2019 12:11 
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I Believe that Kyle Simmons aka "Shadow" was a member of the Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment (Or as it's called Regimental Reconnaissance Company) Due to him originally having the Camouflage ability all by himself, Plus of course Stealthy
Len Anderson was a member of The Army Special Forces. And for some reason I believe it was in 10th SF group due to them being largely deployed in Europe during the Cold War to keep the Red Army in check which would explain Len's Extreme Hatred of anyone Russian
Now Gregory Block aka "Spooky" He was a SEAL in Vietnam, That's where he got picked to be a member of MACVSOG, I'm very certain on that one. How do I know this? 2 reasons:
1. In his inventory he has a SOG SEAL 2000 Knife
2. The NLF and The NVA gave the SEALs the nickname "The Men with Green Faces" and his picture in the MERC catalog is him in Green Face Paint
Do you have any Theories on the military backgrounds of the Mercenaries? I'd love to hear them
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| Re: Mercs Military Units Theory [message #357916 is a reply to message #357915]
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Sun, 18 August 2019 15:51 
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For Ivan and Igor it should be obvious - Ivan served as major in Soviet army, and Igor in Russian army. The really interesting thing is their German speaking friend, Grunty. Either they met him during merc career or Ivan knows him from his military service time, in which case Grunty probably served in the army of GDR and Ivan served in GSFG (but the bio mentions his bad English knowledge, maybe he speaks German well instead but there's no sign of it in his lines).
As for military conflicts, there's no mention in the lines of Ivan. Igor took part in the war in Chechnya, probably in army specnaz because bio mentions his stealth operations experience.
There's also that "Monk" thing from Wildfire. According to bio, he also served in Chechnya in specnaz forces, so he could serve in the Russian army together with Igor, but he never mentions him, instead he hates Ivan for unknown reason.
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| Re: Mercs Military Units Theory [message #357930 is a reply to message #357929]
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Tue, 20 August 2019 17:42
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BlueWarrior wrote on Tue, 20 August 2019 19:06Do you think Ivan served in Afghanistan during his Red Army Days?
I could not find any evidence of that in game files. In vanilla Ja2 he carries HK MP5K which can be seen as some hint to German background (or he simply likes that weapon as a mercenary).
Also, Red Army in his bio is more a joke, because it was officially renamed to Soviet Army in 1946, so saying that Ivan served in Red Army means he fought in WWII :-)
Red Army refers to revolution times, it's funny to hear it used in 1980s context. It's not exactly like calling modern US forces "The Union forces" or "The North army" but something like that.
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