Nikodemus_Blackwood

I have it set to follow each so I get a notification for anything I am in, yet 3 of them, the one with Seul, one with Avilon and Giant Dad, and another random one don't pop notifications for me... Even though they are all set to and no other threads set that way have an issue.

Oh. Why the hell am I not getting these updates... this is the third thread with this issue. One moment. I will get posting!

I am in group 2... How the hell am I up?!

Yea. If the spots are taken thats all cool. I believe in equal opportunities for all!

Sweet, Since I will be over 25, I will be one of the people fighting for slots to help lower levels.

Yea. I think Kalesh mentioned in a status update with Mack that by the time this one got going for real, it'd be next months boss time.

Might.

Well that is good. I didn't ever take practice ASVABs, just showed up for the real thing. I got above average scores on over 2/3 the testing material with 1/3 being near perfect. The lowest one I got was on Mechanical and Mathematics. That was my lowest score, but well above the pass marks needed. But I never had a want to join a military branch. I want to become a teacher, but in the state I am, teaching is a pretty low paying and not needed job at the moment because the state board of education is a bunch of pompous idiots who think that the state is fine how it is, even though we're ranked one of the 10 worst education systems in the US right now... So, for now I just write and work.

Well, your from the US, I would assume you may have atleast heard of the ASVAB. It is a test administered to High School students that is composed of many different subjects and is used as a placement test for military branches. 9 times out of 10, people who place low in the ASVAB do not go far in most military branches. This is not due to lack of intelligence or anything. It's more of a statistics thing. Another reason is that some of the more illustrious military organizations such as the Green Berets, Ranger Corps, Marines, and Navy Seals require a lot of testing, aptitude, and high marks in a military career. Because of this, many people choose to go into the Army, National Guard, or Navy because they have the ability to go in under the basic career line, get things like tuition reimbursement, skill and tradesmen vocations, and so forth for signing a tour of duty roster. For National Guard it is 2-4 off duty and 2 on active duty. That was of course back in 2007 when most of my highschool mates joined.

Yes and no. They were primarily used during World War I because during that time, Trench Warfare was the typical type of fighting you saw in most of the world. Armies would spend days and weeks building trench lines, all connected by other trenches called Saps, that would allow people to move about protected from the line of fire, except mortar rounds, and they could hold of enemies with few numbers. Because of the fact that Mortars had to 1. be above trench lines to prevent accidental detonation in the trenches (They could literally shoot the side wall of their own trench) and 2. A spotter or team of spotters were needed to help aim the mortar, being far out in the field, trench warfare made it difficult to be assaulted properly with a mortar because those in the trenches would pop out and shoot the spotters, or worse, the mortar cannon or ammunition.

A second reason for trenches was because they could be well hidden in a lot of terrain and would cause similar ambush issues. So, to combat enemy trenches, the German army trained specialized troopers who were armored and trained to literally get into the trenches by multiple means, and would storm them, gunning down anyone they saw, burning the bunkers with flamethrowers, and detonating charges to collaps saps and trenches, thus cutting off whole sections of trench networks from supplies. They were first called Shock Troopers, then Storm Men, then Storm Troopers as time went on. Due to the advancement in ballistic projectiles, tanks, and aerial warfare, Trench warfare fell into less use in some parts of World War II, specifically the African campaigns between british and German forces, and any regions with mountainous terrain, as a good spotter on any slope could see a trench and mark it for aerial bombardment.

What is this Mien Kampf you speak of? This Nazi regime? I, son of the great mother land of Germany, know nothing of which you speak! We were not here during that time! We were in Aruba! On Vacation!

Sarcasm aside, It is actually a well known fact George Lucas based the ideals behind the Storm Troopers, the Sith, and alot of other Imperial background off of World War I and World War II Germany, with a slight mix of Soviet era Russia also. The Storm Troopers name itself was named for the  Stoßtruppen, Shock Troops, an elite group of infiltrators who's main goal was to go in and cause chaos.

The oratory ability of most Imperials comes from the fact that many German Nazi and even some Russian Soviet military leaders, no matter how heinous of war crimes they committed, were able to rouse and endear many who heard their speeches and were great speakers. Some studied oratory skills, philosophy, poetry, and other forms of oration to help them with this.

The Imperial uniforms are some what reminiscent of the German Nazi uniforms, particularly Air Corp and Naval Corp uniforms for Officers, and even the Storm Trooper uniforms were based on the uniforms worn by shock troops and elite nazi guard.