Never thought of a tribute in a game. I could do my mom (RCAF Flight Lieutenant - nurse/midwife), my grandfather (Highland Light Infantry, Private though got offered Sergeant's stripes if he stayed in England to take care of the Officer's horses at the training unit), my father in law (Weap/Radar tech, RCAF, Sergeant by the time he was done) and that's not moving out into my group of friends (SF operators - comms + medics, CG, RCAF Intel, RCN, Army Rangers, Army and Navy Image Analysts (INT), etc).

That's a good idea, Tim. I intend to steal it in a most bald-face and unapologetic manner.



On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:33 PM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:


On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 03:58, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
When we elevate a senior non-com to an officer rank (give them a commission), the rank they assume is dependent on their time in service, rank, etc. and it can be as high as two bars (Captain in the Army). I think the term they use is Mustangs. They also tend to be the officers that get the most respect from the non-commissioned folk because they did their time in the 'trenches' (other ranks) before going to be an officer.

Thank you for this.

I think I may have read this somewhere but not really absorbed it.

My Dad would never have told me this but I might quiz on him on it now!  He started out as a very junior sailor in the Royal Navy and after 35 years eventually retired as a Lt Cdr having worked his way up.  Indeed in *my* eyes he made Admiral as he was on a Special Duty list where he could never have been promoted beyond Commander.  ;-)

Somewhere I've got my notes I took when I interviewed him in detail on his career with the aim of doing an Imperial Navy officer profile as a kind of tribute.  I must dig them out.   (There's just too many (Traveller) jobs..... argh!)  (I could retire right now and have enough writing projects to occupy me full time till, well, I don't know when, but for a long time.).  

In the meantime my tribute will have to be the Wooden Ships and Iron Men thing I did for Freelance way back (https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/chargen/rttwetnavy.htm and
https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/chargen/ctwetnavy.html ). 
What did happen to that Two-Space project Jeff?  (BTW Jeff, I think the search on FT is still broken).


Also
<snip JZ's summary of academies>

That's helpful, I sort of knew a quarter of that, vaguely knew half of that and didn't know the rest.  Good to say it laid out like that and snipped to make a bookmark for my T5.1 book where that's relevant.

cheers

tc


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